PC Too Loud? Here Are The Tools To Silence It
After I set up my new PC I noticed that it was considerably louder than before.
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Fix The Program Can't Start Because MSVCR100D.dll Is Missing From Your Computer.
I had to reinstall Windows 7 on a different hard drive on my computer after the root drive crashed the other day.
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Mouse Double Clicking When You Click Once: Causes and Fixes
Mouse double clicking when you click once is usually caused by one of three things: a Windows setting (single-click to open, or a double-click speed that is too
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How To Fix Aero Issues In Windows 7
I received an error message that Aero was not enabled the first time I tried to install the custom Mac OS X theme for Windows 7.
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Using Bitlocker in Windows (Best Practice Guide)
If you use a laptop for work, or it you carry important or sensitive data with you then it should be encrypted.
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Check if Your Devices Are Compatible With Windows 8
Before you consider installing a version of Windows 8, you should make sure that all of your third party devices work fine with the operating system.
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4 Options To Save Bandwidth and Speed Up Web Browsing
There are certain situations where it may make sense to save as much bandwidth as possible while connected to the Internet.
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Limit The Upload Bandwidth Of Windows Programs
I noticed yesterday that the popular live streaming software Sopcast was using all of my computer's upload bandwidth.
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Using Virtualization in Windows 7 Free Webcast
As we all use computers over more and more years we become comfortable with software that "just works" and we want to continue using it for as long as possible.
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Diagnosing a Blue Screen of Death Error in Windows
For many years now the famous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) has been the ultimate indication that something disastrous has happened to make your computer die, but
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How to Create a Hidden Encrypted Volume With True Crypt
A judge recently ordered a US citizen to decrypt storage space on a computer so that police forces could analyze protected files on the system.
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Attaching an Alert Task to a Windows Error
The Windows Event Viewer in one of the most useful, yet most under used features of the operating system.
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How to Write a Windows 8 Book, Research and Marketing
Last week I threw down the gauntlet to any readers who might want to write your own Windows 8 book with a couple of posts here and here offering a quick guide [
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Microsoft Outlook Window Not Appearing Fix
Outlook is not my main email client and I never really used it that much.
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How To Turn A Magnet Link Into A Torrent File
The popular Bittorrent indexer The Piratebay announced yesterday that the decision was made to switch the position of torrent and magnet link download links on
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A Better Way to Use Ninite
Ninite is a great way to easily install many essential programs.
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YouTube Tip: Shortcut To Skip Part Of A Video
If you are an Internet regular you have probably heard about the Wadsworth Constant, an Internet meme that has come to some fame at the end of last year.
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How To Copy Wlan Profiles
When you are moving from one PC to the other, or are making use of multiple devices running Windows, you probably want to have data available on all the PCs.
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Before Dual Booting: What you Need to Know
The topic of dual booting operating systems has been covered in a few ways on this site, but here is a primer to provide you with some important information bef
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How to Configure Windows Remote Assistance On Windows 7
Windows Remote Assistance is a tool that Microsoft has integrated into the Windows 7 operating system.
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How to Partition and Un-Partition your Hard Drive in Windows
Hard drive partitioning is useful for creating virtual drives and creating disk volumes that can be used for storing particular file types.
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Diagnosing and Repairing Difficult Problems in Windows 7 Free Webcast
Windows 7 is Microsoft's most stable and reliable version of their desktop operating system yet, but it's still such a complex piece of software that when somet
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How To Store More Files On Dropbox Than Your Ratio Allows
I have been using the cloud storage and file synchronization service Dropbox more frequently lately.
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Setting up and Configuring a New PC, Free eBook
With Christmas only ten days away you might well be lucky enough to receive a new PC or laptop as a present, or you may be giving one as a gift.
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How To Disable WLAN Background Scans
Some Windows users who are connecting via wireless lan to the Internet may have noticed regular ping spikes and sometimes even disconnects due to an automated b
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Display Files In Windows 7 Libraries, Favorites Differently
Files in standard folders can be sorted and displayed in a number of ways.
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Combine Dropbox and uTorrent to Load Torrents Remotely
You may come upon torrents that you'd like to download when you are out of house.
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Change The Default Folder Picture In Windows Explorer
Some folders in Windows Explorer show a single preview picture embedded in the folder icon.
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Save Technet Documents As PDF or HTML
Microsoft's Technet site is a huge documentation repository for all things Microsoft.
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Hard Drive Temperature Thresholds, What You Need To Know
Hard drives, like other electronic devices, have temperature thresholds that they need to run in.
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Transfer Video To DVD With DeVeDe
We have covered the video DVD creation software DeVeDe twice here at Ghacks.
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Play Playlist .PLS Files In Windows Media Player
The playlist (.
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Use RSSOwl To Discover New RSS Feeds
RSSOwl, my feed reader of choice, offers several interesting features that are not apparent on first glance.
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How To Remove The Office 2010 Starter Virtual Drive
A few days ago I wrote a brief tutorial about downloading and installing Office Starter 2010 from Microsoft.
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Cleaning Out Windows Live Mesh Temporary Files
Windows Live Mesh is a great little program that can synchronise your files across multiple PCs.
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Using Natural Language Search in Windows 7
Search in Windows 7 can be difficult and awkward to use as in order to use it properly you have to remember a lot of, sometimes very obscure commands including�
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How To Disable The Caps Lock Key Permanently
When I was working in IT I sometimes dealt with support requests that involved the caps lock key.
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Eraser Has Stopped Working, Fix Inside
For a while now I received an error message whenever I tried to run the file deletion software Eraser.
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Notepad++ Not Starting Up? Try Disabling Plugins
I just wanted to test the Light Explorer plugin for the notepad replacement Notepad++ on Windows.
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Unable to Terminate Process, Windows Task Manager Alternatives
Today I tried to install the Adobe Flash Plugin for Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
