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  • Boot From USB Drives Easily Without BIOS Support

    It has always been a hassle to boot the system from other than the already installed hard drive or the CD ROM. With the latest hardware and software improvements, some of the old hardware like motherboards don’t support booting from the modern hardware like the USB drives. PLoP is a software which can boot the…

  • Download All Your Stuff Bypassing Internet Restrictions

    Most of the companies and educational institutions forbid certain types of files to be downloaded. For example, most of the institutions block mp3 files or even zip files so that the bandwidth can be used only for the desired purposes. But people like to download their documents and songs while they are at work. The…

  • Get Free TuneUp Utilities 2007 Full Version

    A few days back Abdullah had written an article about TuneUpUtilities 2009. It’s a pretty good tool to fine tune your system. There was a promotion going on for Vnunet users. I thought I should share it with my readers also. In this promotion, you get a copy of TuneUpUtilities 2007 with the serial key…

  • Windows Task Manager Alternatives

    Chiranjib, our regular reader, was asking me continuously to suggest some alternatives to the default Windows system tools that are usually disabled in case of a virus attack. So I thought I would just write about all the tools I know which are helpful in troubleshooting a system. It will be a series of articles,…

  • How To Download Embeded/Streaming Videos (All Sites Including Youtube)

    I had to do some research and I needed some videos which I had found on youtube and other social sites like google videos etc. As I didn’t have internet at my home, I needed to download all the videos in order to see them offline. I was searching for a comprehensive solution which could…

  • How To Remove W32.sillyFDC Virus

    Yesterday a friend of my came to my desk and asked me to copy some pictures. I inserted his USB flash drive and woosh — Virus alert says my Antivirus. For more information about which antivirus I use, please see this article. I wrote down the virus name and went to his computer to see…

  • Save Your Notes And Annotations From The Web

    A few months back I wrote about Postica which is the virtual post it notes software of the web. I used it and liked it very much. But a month back I got an email from a guy from webnotes.net that I should try out webnotes as well. I promised that I’ll test it out…

  • Cannot View SHTML File From Your Computer Locally

    SHTML is an extension for web pages that contain server side includes meaning that the content can be inserted dynamically in the web pages. Prior to Windows XP, viewing of SHTML pages locally was enabled by default. But Windows XP does not enable the viewing of SHTML pages by default. So if you try to…

  • Cannot Drag/Drop Icons Or Files On Desktop Or In Windows Explorer

    While I was working on a new network of a new company, after installing and configuring all the Server and Client Windows Operating systems, I noticed that there was one system with Windows XP on which I couldn’t drag/drop icons or files on the desktop. It was just like hung. I googled for a solution…

  • Share Your Computer With Your Google Talk Friends

    It’s really cool thing when we’re able to share all our system resources with our trusted friends. For example if we want to share some file or you want a folder to be synchronized across all the friend’s systems so that all the friends can work together and they have the current copy of all…