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5 Cоmрutеr Tірѕ Tо Sесurе Yоur Cоmрutеr Frоm Vіruѕ Attасkѕ

Amrik Virdi — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:27:29 +0000

Tаkіng раrt іn соmрutеr ѕесurіtіеѕ mеаѕurеѕ ѕuрроѕе tо bе рrасtісеѕ thаt еvеrуbоdу thаt hаvе а соmрutеr muѕt tаkе раrt іn еvеrу tіmе bесаuѕе fаіlurе tо dо іt саn rеѕult іn ѕоmеthіng bаd lаtеr. On dаіlу bаѕіѕ, dіffеrеnt соmрutеrѕ gеt bаd duе tо vіruѕ аttасkѕ еіthеr frоm thе іntеrnеt оr rіght оn thе соmрutеr іtѕеlf аnd [...]

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How To Prevent Users To Shut Down Windows

Tanmay — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:54:21 +0000

Computers which are used by several people should have different user accounts or user group for privacy of work. It is also recommended that the admin should not allow the full access to all the other users. If you are the administrator of such computer with Windows operating system and want to prevent some specific [...]

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Share Internet Connection Via Wireless in Windows XP Without Software

Tanmay — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:07:34 +0000

If you want to share your internet connection via WLAN (Wireless LAN) there are various way to do so. If your OS is Windows 7/Vista then it is very easy to share your connection [Create Wireless Home Network Without Router in Windows 7/Vista]. But what about the Windows XP? Personally, I used a third party [...]

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How to Create and Use New Indian Rupee Symbol In Windows XP

Tanmay — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:36:30 +0000

After all the Indian Rupee has got its own symbol. Government has already declared the symbol and we are ready to use it. But being new, it is not available in your Windows font. But here I’ve introduced a process to use the symbol in any application of Windows XP. Related: Install Font Containing New [...]

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Reduce the Time of Shutting Down in Windows XP

Tanmay — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:41:30 +0000

Windows XP is by far one of the most commonly used operating systems even today. The main reason behind this success of XP is its user friendliness and flexibility towards almost all applications round the globe. It supports almost each and every software and due to all these features it has its immense success today. [...]

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Acquire Your Lost Windows XP Product Key

Tanmay — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:19:54 +0000

Despite of the arrival of Microsoft Windows Vista or the more recent Windows 7, two of the most revolutionary launches of Microsoft – those that redefined “Operating System” as a whole, Microsoft Windows XP is still considered to be the most user friendly platform to work upon ever by many around the globe. We, here [...]

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Protect Windows XP by Locking with Your USB Drive

Tanmay — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:30:14 +0000

It is a very general problem faced by the general mass when our PC, which is supposed to be personal, is used many other people. It happens many a time that neither we can oppose them nor we can accept the scenario. For all those people, we come up with a nice and interesting trick. [...]

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Windows XP Crashes With Blue Screen And Restarts Automatically.

Tanmay — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:24:58 +0000

Microsoft Windows XP users may sometimes face a challenging problem with their operating system. All of a sudden, when everything is running smoothly on the system, the user experiences an automatic system restart preceded by a blue screen that flashes on the display for mere seconds, so that it’s almost impossible to record what’s happening [...]

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6 Smart and Cool Tricks for Windows XP

Tanmay — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:05:20 +0000

Windows XP is the popular and user friendly operating system . You can make your XP to perform better and easy to use applying some cool tips and tricks. Here I listed 6 useful tricks and tips to make a play with your Windows XP more efficiently. On other hand you can customize your XP [...]

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Turn Your Existing Computer Into Virtual Machine

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:50:19 +0000

Experiment is the ladder to climb at the higher and higher stage of success in the technology world.You can not give a better feedback until you have not passed through some experimental stages. Even if you are a computer user or an Web developer. Every time you have to make some experiments in your computer. [...]

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Change Default Operating System in Windows Boot Menu

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:44:26 +0000

Many users like to use more than one Operating Systems ( Windows 7, Vista, XP) in his/her Computer. Primarily an operating system is set as default in your Computer. When you switch on your Computer, that default operating system starts automatically. Tip: Install windows xp from usb. Suppose you have three operating systems that are [...]

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Move Default Location of My Documents in Windows XP

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:43:14 +0000

The problem for most of the user is to get enough space in “My Documents” and save assets from deletion while formatting PC’s root drive. By default the storing location is “C:\Documents and Settings\user name\My Documents“, where C is the root drive. Tip: Design Fonts And Characters As Your Own Choice in Windows XP. Windows [...]

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Select to Copy And Middle Click to Paste in Windows Firefox

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:20:50 +0000

To day I was surfing the internet in Linux and using Firefox. But suddenly I noticed that there is an interesting useful feature in the Firefox. What’s that? You can copy just selecting the text and paste it by middle click in Firefox. It impressed me so much and I’ve made it my habit. Also [...]

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How to Play Unplayable Videos in Windows Media Player

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:03:22 +0000

If you are fond of videos and music and a high speed internet connection is available then no doubt you would like to download video files to enrich your video collection. But it may cause a great disappointment if the file you’ve downloaded does not play neither in your Windows Media Player nor in VlC [...]

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Design Fonts And Characters As Your Own Choice in Windows XP

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:01:13 +0000

There is a small program in the recesses of Windows System32. I’m saying about ‘Private Character Editor’ (PCE). It is almost a monochrome replica of the well known utility MS Paint but it comes with an different peripheral. If you want to create your own font or add any customized symbol in the font family [...]

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Automatically Close The Non responding Programs in Windows XP

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0000

What will you do when any program becomes non-responding? Obviously you would terminate the program from task manager. Usually you will open task manager by Alt+Ctrl+Del, wait for an endless time and manually abort the program which is not responding. Actually it becomes very irritating as it makes us wait for a long time. But [...]

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Uninstall Useless Windows Components

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:53:11 +0000

So many useless program installed in your PC may slow down your computer. You should uninstall those to get rid from them. Well, it is quite easy to uninstall any program from the Add/Remove Program option under Control Panel.But if the the program is not present in the List under Add/Remove Program then how you [...]

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Install Windows XP From USB Drive Part-II

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:52:32 +0000

I previously wrote an article Install Windows XP from USB Flash/Pen Drive part-I. This process allows you make a USB flash disk/drive bootable and exactly the same as the XP installation CD. To make the whole process you should have a PC/Computer/Laptop with CD/DVD Rom. Once you make your USB drive ready to boot windows [...]

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A handy and Secured Way to Hide Files and Folders in Windows XP

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:50:23 +0000

As we wrote earlier the article Hide Files or Folders in the Command Prompt in Windows XP, we decided to write another article about that issue. You should be very much familiar with the situation when you need to hide a data or secure a file/folder from a person who uses your computer. If you [...]

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Shutdown the Windows Automatically

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:50:00 +0000

Suppose you are downloading a large file or installing any software that may take a long time to complete. So you can’t shutdown your computer until the task is finished. I think you will mess up with this if you face it regularly. Especially in night you feel sleepy and can not be awakened. Tip: [...]

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Hide Files Or Folders By Command Prompt In Windows XP

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:49:43 +0000

There are many software in the market that might be useful to keep your files and folder secured by hiding them. But you may not like to use software to hide files and folders. This article describes about the command for hiding a folder using command prompt. See also: A handy and secured way to [...]

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Change Windows XP Start Menu Button Name As Your Choice

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:31:41 +0000

There are many articles about the process of changing the name of start menu button in Windows XP on internet. I have noticed that there are some myth that the name of the start menu button in Windows XP must be of 5 character as “start” is of 5 character, but I did not find [...]

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Apply Windows 7 Desktop Property In Windows XP

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:22:35 +0000

Windows 7 is the upcoming operating system from Microsoft. This latest version of Microsoft Windows will be released on 22 nd October 2009 .Windows 7 has some new desktop property.You can get this new desktop property in your Windows XP. If you have Windows XP and want to enjoy with windows 7 desktop property then [...]

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Recover Deleted Files from your Hard Disk

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:17:00 +0000

Are you regretting for the lost important files which you have deleted unfortunately? You can still recover deleted files from your hard disk. The files are stored in the hard drive section on the disk drive of your computer.The section is called sectors. Related post:Recover Deleted Files in Windows 7 Without Any Software When you [...]

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Install Any Software You need In Your USB Flash Drive With Mojopac

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:14:33 +0000

Have you imagined that your laptop is in your pocket? All the necessary software may be available every time, every where! Suppose you are in a Cybercafe and you want to edit some photos in Photoshop. But in that computer Photoshop application is not available. See Also: How to install Windows Xp from USB flash [...]

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Install Windows XP from USB Flash/Pen Drive

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:12:54 +0000

You might have installed Vista, Windows 7 from your USB flash drive. But if you want to install Windows XP from USB flash drive then you should face some problem because the Windows XP does not have the feature of booting from a USB flash drive. But you can still install windows XP from USB [...]

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Make Bootable Windows XP Installation CD Updated With SP3

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:56:33 +0000

You have to install the Windows XP first and then the service pack (sp2,sp3) in your PC. It is little bit laborious to install the service pack after each re installation of Windows XP. There are some Windows XP Installation Cd which is along with the service pack 2. But Now Microsoft has released the [...]

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Some Important Steps To Remove Virus Manually From Your Computer

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:54:21 +0000

Here I am going to discuss how to remove virus manually from your computer . Some time your computer behave just like old two-wheeler which has a defected engine, takes more time to start, can’t take loads. The same symptoms are seen in your computer. For your computer, the possible reason to slow down it [...]

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Change The Color Of Your Xp Icons:Customize As You Like

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:53:08 +0000

It is very impressive utility of windows XP to customize the folder by “icolor Folder Skin Selector”. You can change the built-in icons in customized icons. icolor is a cool application which lets you to change the colors of your explorer icons and customizing them. You also can assign different colors for different icons. (You [...]

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Speed Up Your Computer Without Any Third Party Tools

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:52:00 +0000

Most of the users face speed problem with their Computer. The computer works fine after a fresh installation of the Operating System. But day by day the computer becomes slow. You can speed up your computer without any third party tools. Using the windows feature you can speed up your computer. Tip: Identify The Services [...]

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