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How To: Restore hijacked Internet explorer homepage [windows]

Did you know that 9 out of every 10 computer user had their browser’s home page hijacked at least once? Internet explorer has been like a playground that easily lets itself exploited and a malicious code could change the default home page of the browser to anything you want.
Anyway, if you currently have this problem [...]

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been released

Microsoft has released Service Pack 3 for its Windows XP family of operating system. This release does not affect the end user’s experience with the operating system but mostly contains the previously released fixes and updates.
However, this release contains many smaller but newer functionalities that might be of some help to IT Administrators and people [...]

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Fix: Browser closes while opening certain websites and pages

Since last few weeks my browsers, both IE and Firefox, started behaving strangely. Whenever I tried to open certain websites or if I tried to navigate directly to internal pages of certain websites, my browser window would close leaving me with no information on what made them close. I thought it would be worthwhile to [...]

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Hard Drive Data Recovery Made Easy with Unstoppable Copier Software

Recovering files from disks of your laptops, servers and personal computers with bad sectors, badly damaged disk, scratches and boot sector failures has become easy with a free tool called Unstoppable Copier. The tool does its great job of recovering files and folders from bad disks by ignoring all the error messages that one would [...]

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5 Free and Powerful Tools for Network Troubleshooting

Having tough time with command line utilities on your Windows system to troubleshoot network issues? Here are 5 very powerful tools from Axence for network troubleshooting available for free.

Ping - Instead of using a command line ping utility, use this graphical tool that also has 5 minutes of ping history.

Fast Traceroute - Now you don’t [...]

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Troubleshooting Broken Software Installations on 95/98/XP/Vista/2000/2003 and NT

Do you have a situation where you can no longer uninstall a software due to either a problem with the Windows registry or corrupt software installation? Also, you might come across a situation when you want to reinstall or upgrade your existing software to the latest version but since the older version is not behaving [...]

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Manage Multiple Windows Systems Easily with BGInfo

How many times you have found yourself running through multiple commands to find critical system information such as its IP address, Hostname, CPU Information, Service Pack information and User Name? This is very annoying specially when you are in charge of system administration and work on multiple Windows systems to troubleshoot various problems such as [...]

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