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The message "Windows cannot open this file2 is always displayed when a user tries to execute a file with a file extension unknown to Windows.
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Create RSS Feeds for sites that have none
A reader was asking me how I managed to keep track of all those software releases and if I had a a special method that I would use.
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Bought a Computer? Check it's hardware!
The first thing that I'm doing after I bought a computer, be it used or retail, is to check if the components installed are indeed the components advertised.
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ZML is for movies what Allofmp3 was for music
The developers of the now defunct Allofmp3 website announced a new website called ZML - The Movie Library - that offers movies in three different versions for p
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Change the Windows File Sort Order
Windows XP has a very confusing way of listing files in directories.
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When Mouse Clicks Go Wrong
Did it ever happen to you that a double-click on a file lead to moving the file instead for a pixels in the direction that you moved the mouse ? If you try to d
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Check and Manage System Restore
I recently visited a friend of mine who had a huge problem with his computer.
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Backup To Email
When I first read about Backup to Email I thought that surely no one wanted to backup files and folders to email.
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Edit Mp3 without encoding them
I sometimes want to cut mp3 audio files into separate parts, mainly because the single file is that large that it does not fit on my mp3 player.
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Transform Images into Vector Images
Using vector images has many advantages over using raster images.
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Six great Google Maps Mashups
Google Maps on its own is a wonderful application but mashups really make it one of a kind.
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How to play Ape files?
You might be puzzled at first if you encounter an audio file with the ape extension for the first time.
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Glint a fantastic system monitor
If you are looking for a highly configurable system monitor you should take a closer look at Glint.
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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
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Recover and display Windows Product Keys
You might have never entered a Windows or Office product key before in your life.
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Get a @live.com email
Email collectors behold ! Microsoft is finally making @live.
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Firebug can make Gmail slow
If you use Firebug and visit Gmail you receive a message "Firebug is known to make Google Mail slow unless it is configured correctly" which was not known by me.
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Create Links from unlinked URLs
A url that is not linked on a website, like www.
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Find out what the world is listening to
When I was young I was astonished by the fact that the top music albums of each country varied a lot.
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Fresh Up your Algebra Skills
I wish there were websites like Algebasics when I was in school, they would have been really helpful and supportive.
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Display several hard drive properties at once
The hard drive properties window gives information about used and free space both in numbers and as a pie chart, offers a Disk Cleanup button, a way to change t
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Save and Locate all Files on your hard drives fast with Locate32
The build in Windows search is slow, really slow compared to a software like Locate that indexes all of your files on all hard drives and offers almost instanta
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Is your Yahoo buddy really offline?
Most Instant Messengers offer a function to hide your real status from your contacts and buddies by showing a faked offline status.
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Move dllcache to another drive
My dllcache folder in system32 has a size of almost 450 Megabytes on my Windows partition.
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Create a custom Calendar
While you can buy hundreds of different calendars each year depicting celebrities, comic book heroes, nature, animals and landscapes you could be inclined to c
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Automatically download files with Opera
If you do use Opera you might have noticed that Opera seems to always bring up the save to dialog and you have to browse to the download location even if you do
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Create Foto Mosaics
You might have encountered foto mosaics before which show one picture that was build using many smaller pictures.
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Remove Windows Media Player Menu Items
Windows Media Player adds context items to the right-click menu of several multimedia files even if you do not use this player to play those files.
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A quick fix for Internet Radio stream buffering issues
Nothing can be more frustrating than to listen to some great tune on Internet Radio which suddenly starts to skip ruining all the fun.
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Permanently Assign Drive Letters to USB Devices
Don't you hate it that it is not possible to assign a drive letter to an USB device in Windows using Microsoft tools ? Let me correct that, it is possible to as
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Increase the size of Windows Calculator
The Windows Calculator does not increase its font size or appearance if your screen resolution is relatively large.
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Create Game Profiles for your Nvidia Graphics Card
Not every game runs perfectly with the default settings.
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Mails sent with BCC did not reach recipients?
Emails can be send to several recipients at once by using the CC or BCC fields which send a Carbon Copy or Blind Carbon Copy to the recipients listed there.
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Lower the noise of your hard drives with SilentDrive
Hard Drives can be terribly noise makers in computers.
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Port Forwarding Tester
You might have encountered the term Port Forwarding when configuring bittorrent on your computer or analyzing slow or none existing traffic with bittorrent.
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Search Mediafire for Files
I was specifically asked by a reader if it was possible to search Mediafire for files like videos, music and applications and you know I can't say no if one of
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Microsoft Excel 2007 Hotfix
A non fixed Microsoft Excel 2007 has calculation issues with certain numbers.
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Numbered Tabs for Firefox
The Firefox add-on Fancy Numbered Tabs replaces the red X with numbers.
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Recreate the Show Desktop shortcut
The Show Desktop shortcut in the quick launch bar minimizes all open windows upon pressing the button.
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Thunderbird Tip: How to archive old messages
I had lots of messages in my Thunderbird mail accounts.
