Defragmenting a hard drive is useful since the read arm of the drive is ever jumping back and forth, in search of fragmented files! So it’s a wise step to defrag our hard drive as frequent as possible.
What about your USB drive? USB drives, unlike hard drives doesn’t have any moving parts! So you don’t [...]
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There are a few freewares that can be used to test your crt & lcd monitor. Among it is Eizo MonitorTest.
Download Eizo MonitorTest!
You can also download other freewares to test your monitor.
Roadkil’s Monitor Test
eCat Monitor Test
ykwong’s checkmon
There’s also an online monitor tester, if you do not wish to download any softwares. Just go to vanity.dk [...]
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sirbrett84’s flickr page
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Windows won’t boot but instead hangs at the splash screen? I’m sure many users have came across this problem in their computing life. What actually happens?
A few tips from Tim Scheiman as a checklist for you to troubleshoot the actual problem. As Tim said on his site, ” we’re dealing with electronic components, they DON’t [...]
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The proprietary software company Trend Micro has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Barracuda Networks. They claim that Barracuda is violating their patent by distributing the free software antivirus program ClamAV.
Free Software Foundation
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When your PC have been infected by a worm/virus/spyware, you will notice that certain restrictions have been set on your PC. Among the restriction commonly set by those malicious programmes are:
Folder option missing ( you can’t view hidden files or folders )
Error when running regedit.
Error when running the Task Manager
Run command not found.
Search option also [...]
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There’s a quick way to check your registry for spywares, adwares and malwares installed on your PC.
RegAuditor tells you by colored icons (green icon–safe, yellow icon–unknown, red icon–harmful) whether specific objects are known to be safe or harmful, also the program searches the registry for entries including filenames that aren’t present on and allows you [...]
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According to MyDigitalLife, what you can do is “Go to your Control Panel and open Add/Remove Programs. Click on “Set Program Access and Defaults” and chose “Custom”. Uncheck the “Enable Access to this program” in front of Internet Explorer.
As a guide, you can take a look at the picture below:
Uncheck the box Enable access [...]
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Matthew Helmke posted an interesting article on his blog about stuff that is OK to do with Linux but it’s not OK while using Windows or even a Mac.
Among those are :
Upgrade to the newest version legally and without paying money
Have the latest version of the operating system run faster than the previous version on [...]
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