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  • Search Directly From Firefox Address Bar

    It’s always good to have common resource for doing multiple tasks. Most of the people who search alot got to the search engine’s website for example http://www.google.com and then enter the search term. This leads to the results page. Or the other way round is having a toolbar for the same purpose. This is a…

  • Tackle The Technical Support 🙂

    An email conversation between a troubled user and the technical support. Take a look 🙂 Dear Tech Support: Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources. In addition , Wife 1.0 installed itself…

  • How To Format USB Drive With NTFS File System

    The advantage of NTFS file system is that it is fast and it has got security options. But the problem is that usually the USB drives are small enough that NTFS is not recommended for them. But nowadays the USB drives are coming with larger sizes. So it’s better to format a drive as NTFS…

  • Convert Any Multimedia File To Any Another Format

    There are quite a number of times that we want to have our file to be in a specific format. For example, I usually prefer png images instead of jpeg. So whenever I find a jpeg image, I want to convert it to png but there is no easy way to do the conversion except…

  • Get Back Missing Search Option In Windows

    It is a common tactic of malware nowadays to disable certain helpful Windows functions that can help get rid of those malware. Some of the functions that are usually disabled are the Task Manager, the registry editor, Folder Options, show hidden files and folders, Run dialog from the start menu and the Search function of…

  • Four Ways To Insert/Eject CD-ROM Tray In Windows

    Most of the time the desktop PCs are located under the tables or in locations where we can’t get our hands easily. The most frequently used item from the desktop PC itself is the CD-ROM drive which has to be opened and closed by pressing the button on the CD-ROM. This is not convenient for…

  • How To Find Old Versions Of Software

    There are times when we want to stick with the old software to which we are used to. We just don’t want to go for those newer ones which are more fancy and rather take up more resources from our system’s limited horsepower and they provide us with functionality which we don’t need. So we…

  • Orkut Is Banned – Heap41a – win32.USBworm Removal

    Chiranjib had a problem with his computer. He was getting the following message when opening Orkut: ORKUT IS BANNED,Orkut is banned you fool`,The administrators didnt write this program guess who did??`r`r                                               MUHAHAHA!! On further research I found out that this is caused by a worm called win32.USBworm. It also blocks Firefox from accessing the internet.…

  • Six Ways To Backup Windows Registry

    Sometime back, Abdullah wrote about how to backup your registry. I was also in the process of writing the same article but Abdullah was faster than me :-). So I abandoned my article. But today I was searching in my drafts and I found out the article again. Actually there are several methods to backup…

  • Old Computer Advertisements

    Asma sent me a mail today about how the old computer advertisements used to be. It was interesting for me. I thought I should publish for all of our readers :-). Here are some of the old computer ads. Compare them with the modern ones and you’ll see the difference 🙂 (Click on any image…