Analyzing Windows Shutdown Performance
The shutdown of Windows takes only a matter of seconds usually before the computer powers down.
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Get Handy Household Tips from MrsFixit
I confess that I’m not particularly adept when it comes to working with hardware.
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Downloading Torrents with Transmission
Torrents are a regular part of a geeks life.
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Windows Vista Shrink Volume Problems
Windows Vista comes with its own partitioning software that can be used to partition the connected hard drives.
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Repair Defragment In Windows Vista
Defragment seems to make more problems in Windows Vista than it did in Windows XP.
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Document Scanning With Digital Cameras
Document scanning can be done with digital cameras.
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The Specified Port Is Unknown
The specified port is unknown was the error message during the installation of a new shiny HP OfficeJet K5400n printer.
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Move Steam To Another Hard Drive
Steam is the Internet gaming platform created by Valve software.
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Play Random MP3 Albums In Winamp
RandoMP3 is a lightweight software program for Winamp that offers two interesting features: the first feature called Audition will randomly select a MP3 album f
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Create Video Card Profiles To Save Power And Reduce Noise
The following article is a guide that explains how you can create profiles for the installed video card to optimize it for different applications, namely workin
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Learn Microsoft Excel: Smart Paste
If you want to copy contents from a plain text file, for instance one you have created with Notepad or Notepad++, you may have noticed that contents do not get
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Au Revoir, Bonjour!
If you have installed Apple software on your computer system running Windows lately, or software from Adobe or a few other software developers, chances are that
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Disable Adobe Updater
Adobe installs a software called Adobe Updater with many of its products.
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Video To DVD
Windows users surely have no shortage of programs that convert video to dvd.
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Easier Way To Download Protected Photos At Flickr
A Flickr user can decided to protect the photos uploaded to the site, which has the effect that the a user who is trying to download a protected photo will end
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Find out if your computer acts as a Skype Super-Node
Bandwidth usage can be extremely different for Skype users which can be attributed whether computers are being used as Skype Super-Nodes.
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How to cope with a toothache
Well, I know this has nothing to do with technology, but I thought I'd share some tips I've learned in the past 2 days.
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Reveal or Reset the Bios Passwords
Password protecting the Bios is considered a weak protection, something that professionals can find out or reset in no time.
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Enable DVD Library in Windows Media Center
I came in contact with a Windows Media Center PC only recently, specifically with Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
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Learn to be a master filmmaker with Wikiversity
Today was the first day, after using Wikipedia for ages I actually took the time to look at what the front page has to offer.
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Remove Nero Scout from Windows Explorer
I finally updated my old Nero 7 to the latest Nero version and tried to get rid of as many unnecessary Nero applications as possible during installation.
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Make Your Own Movie Trailers
I got a call from a friend sometime back, frantically asking me if I knew anyone who could create a movie trailer for her.
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Remove Nokia Phone Browser from My Computer
Installing the Nokia PC Suite on your computer has the side effect that a Nokia Phone Browser system folder is added to My Computer.
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Create fully functioning PDF's for free
Yesterday I spent about 4 hours trying to get a pdf right.
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Prepare your Audiobooks for a Roadtrip
I never liked taking my original CDs, or any CDs at all for that matter, with me on a roadtrip or on holidays.
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Scarddlg.dll error when opening iTunes
A friend of mine recently received an error message whenever he was trying to open iTunes.
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Add a Youtube Video to Your PowerPoint Presentation
Almost everyone has used PowerPoint for presentations at some time or the other.
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Which Codecs do I have installed?
Do you know which audio and video codecs are installed on your operating system ? Did you know that you can easily find that out by using Windows tools ? I thin
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About PuTTy and Tutorials, including a PuTTy Tutorial
After my last post about the powers of PuTTy in conjunction with an SSH-enabled router, I started thinking about tutorials.
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Fun Things to do with PuTTy and Linux-Routers
If you set up some kind of SSH Connection on a windows computer over the past few years, be it to connect to the university's network or to secure a line for an
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Disable Recent Documents in Word 2007
The Recent Documents are a comfort function in Office 2007 products such as Word 2007 or Excel 2007 that displays the last 17 documents that you have opened in
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Set Transparent Color for Images in Microsoft Word
I once had to add a image into a Word document that had a black background which looked awful when printing the document.
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Reset the Windows Firewall
If you have discovered a Virus or Trojan on your system you are advised to reset (or check) the settings of your firewall to make sure that no backdoor has been
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Join Images Together with XnView
The majority of computer users are probably using GIMP, Adobe Photoshop or Paint.
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CD or DVD Drive Slow? Change it from PIO to DMA Mode
When you burn a CD or DVD in Windows, your DVD burner usually uses the DMA (Direct Memory Access) mode.
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Itunes Error 69 when syncing iPod
I have been experiencing the Error 69 in iTunes lately when syncing iPod.
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Change the Source Viewer in IE, Firefox and Opera
The default source viewer for all browsers mentioned in the title is not optimal and sometimes posing more problems than solving them.
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Fix PDF Document Display Problems in Browsers
I'm not sure what is causing it but I do know that a lot of users have difficulties opening PDF files in browsers.
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Stop Folders from being monitored in WMP 11
Windows Media Player 11 is constantly monitoring several folders in the My Documents folder structure for media changes.
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Clear the Chat History of one contact in Skype
Did you know that the default setting for the Skype Chat History is forever ? That means, every chat with every contact is still visible using the View Chat His
