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your computer might be at risk balloon | Stop the security warning

July 18, 2009

Problem: How many times it happens that you start you windows xp computer and you see the warining as below on your task-bar? What does it mean? It is simply a warning from windows security center service when you are using a third party anti-virus or firewall software and not using windows default services. Solution: [...]

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block application from accessing internet

July 12, 2009

Problem: I recently installed a game and I want to play offline, but it tries to connect to the Internet every now and then. There are some times when some applications like games ,software’s installed on your system try to connect to Internet for various reasons.This becomes very annoying specially when you don’t know how [...]

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volume control missing, How to fix it?

July 12, 2009

Problem: Some time it happens that you want to change the volume from the task-bar and the volume control button is not there. No need to worry, this is a simple trouble to fix. Solution: This problem can be fixed in 4 easy steps 1. Open control panel 2. Open Sound and audio devices 3. [...]

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task manager disabled, how do I fix it?

July 12, 2009

Problem: It is due to some kind of virus/ trojan activity which normally disables the task manager.Now due to this problem when ever the user press alt+ctrl+del to launch windows task manager it gives an error saying “Task Manager is being disabled by your administrator”. Solution: To Enable the Disabled Task Manager on your system

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Windows 7 to have ‘windows XP mode’

April 24, 2009

For some time now, the Microsoft has been quietly building a "Windows XP mode" that uses virtualization to allow Windows 7 to easily run applications designed for Windows XP. The XP mode won’t come in the box with Windows 7, but will be made available as a free download for those who buy the professional, [...]

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Windows Vista sidebar in XP

January 22, 2009

photo credit: Fillmore Photography There are thousands of Gadgets available for download for Windows Vista. But if you don’t have Vista, you can’t run them on your Windows XP machine. Though there are several other small little apps to do the job for XP.

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Open Office.org 3 for Windows and Mac

November 28, 2008

Sun Microsystems released the first beta for OpenOffice.org 3 for Windows and Mac. The new version of OpenOffice, an open-source competitor to Microsoft Office, claims to offer users improvements on every component from interface to features to behaviour. OpenOffice now natively supports OS X, so Mac users won’t have to install the X11 module before [...]

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