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November 6, 2009

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Download over 34 free Windows 7 themes

Have you recently got Windows 7 onto your computer and looking for Windows 7 themes? Here are 34 themes for your new Windows 7 system and all of them are from Microsoft. There are 14 featured themes and 20 International themes each representing a country that are currently available for immediate download. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and download the themes you like for your Windows 7 from Microsoft’s personalization gallery

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September 12, 2009

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Disable autorun in Windows to prevent new USB boot virus infection

PC World recently published an article titled ‘How Windows Autorun Can Autoinfect’ that talked about the new USB based malware which is the new boot virus spreading from USB devices to Windows systems such as XP. The article stresses on the need for the IT admins to disable autorun in Windows to prevent such USB based viruses from infecting the systems on their network. The problem is not just with the USB flashdisk drives but also those numerous USB based

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June 25, 2008

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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 and are searching for a solution to fix it, keep reading this post. What is hijacking of Internet explorer homepage? A security hole in

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April 23, 2008

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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 in IT department in-charge of end user computing. The new and enhanced functionality that, are worth mentioning, comes along with SP3 is as follows:

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September 20, 2007

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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 make a post about it for those who are facing similar issues with their browsers and looking everywhere for a possible fix. Problem: Browser windows,

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August 1, 2007

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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 have otherwise encountered while using standard ways and tools to retrieve data from damaged disks. The advantage of using this approach is that some types

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Posted in: Software/Apps | Tools/Utils | Unix/Linux | Windows

July 5, 2007

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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 have to wait till the command line tracert utility that takes its own sweet time in tracing the route for you. Use Fast

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