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How to prevent re-collecting information regarding playlists and displaying it to others in Windows Media Player.

March 3, 2008

Windows Media player maintains a history of files that have already been played. This way other PC users can copy my playlists. How can I prevent it? The process is quite simple: •    To prevent the Media Player from re-collecting information regarding playlists and displaying it to others who have access to the same PC, [...]

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How to identif network errors quickly during the transfer?

March 3, 2008

Tthe dialog ‘Status’ for network connections provides information about the number of received and sent packets. However, while doing so. Windows does not specify whether errors have occurred while transferring data. How do I find out if errors occur during the transfer? An entry in the Registry helps in displaying important information for the error [...]

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How to end processes using the command line by using ‘taskkill’.

March 3, 2008

Some programs tend to set their work superficially and use further resources in the Task Manager as a process. Despite that, after a system crash and in the absence of an alternative, I have to eventually fall back on these  programs and end the process laboriously via the Task Manager. Is  there an easy alternative. [...]

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How to display icons on the desktop without labels

March 2, 2008

Q. Some of the icons on the desktop do not require any label at all. The icon is indicative enough. How do I remove the labels? Unfortunately, Windows does not allow deleting the label directly. The operating system rejects empty strings or labels consisting space characters by displaying the message ‘Enter  a file name’. however, [...]

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How to protect Office setup files from the Disk cleanup wizard

March 2, 2008

The windows Disk cleanup wizard sometimes is too thorough and deletes even the setup files of the Microsoft- office that are copied on the hard disk. This can be annoying when you want to upgrade functions. After starting the Disk Cleanup Wizard, you can select several options to choose which data should be deleted. The [...]

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