Sifting through some of the most popular blogs online, you’ll find countless articles about removing viruses, spyware or malware from one’s computer. It may appear that I am just beating on a dead horse here with this blog, but my approach of removing these nasty programs is quick and easy.
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We have covered a lot on file sharing between Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Ubuntu Karma, and now Lucid Lynx. This is another complete tutorial on sharing between Ubuntu and Windows, and with it, we will try to explain in simple-to-understand steps how to share files and folders between all editions of Windows and all versions of Ubuntu.
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Antivirus Soft is a rogue antivirus software which blocks you from running or executing legitimate programs installed on your computer and forces you to purchase the software (Antivirus Soft) to fix the problem. It is annoying to say the least.
This quick tutorial will show you how to remove this rogue program and any other fake antivirus software installed on your computer.
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This tutorial will show you how to install TeamViewer 5 in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and connect to a Windows machine remotely from any where in the world for free. If you don’t already know about TeamViewer, it is a free remote connection tool that lets you connect and take control of remote computer easily.
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This tutorial will show you how to install TeamViewer on Linux Mint Systems and remotely connect to Windows machines easily. Using TeamViewer you can then troubleshoot Windows machines from a remote location and also share files and folders.
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Defragmenting your hard disk is the process of collection and organizing all the pieces of files and folders that are scattered across your hard drives. If defragmentation is not periodically done on your systems, it will eventually slow down your computers.
This tutorial will show you how to schedule disk defragmentation in Windows XP easily. Performing this will not fix all problems on your systems, but will definitely helps improve your computer performance.
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This blog describes how to use system restore in Windows XP to restore your system to previous state and undo harmful changes done to your computer.
If you’re about to install a program or perform changes to your system, Microsoft recommends that you either backup your computer or create a restore point so that when something goes wrong, you’ll be able to restore your system to earlier time.
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If you want to spruce up your Widows Desktop with quality wallpapers, then check out Dream Desktop, a high quality wallpaper site with thousands of wallpapers free for all. The Wallpapers on this site are grouped into different categories including, cars, sports, animals, computer, aircrafts, 3D and more.
This brief tutorial will show you the steps needed to upgrade Windows XP to service pack 3. As you may already know, Microsoft released XP service pack 3 (SP3) about two years ago as an update to service pack 2. It includes all previously released updates, and new updates to ensure that XP users have the latest updates for their systems.
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Continuing our series of introducing beginners to Windows and Linux, we’ll are going to be talking about Windows Vista in this blog.
As you may already know, Windows Vista was released more than two years ago and is still popular among PC users worldwide. It’s an operating system developed by Microsoft and is known as the replacement for Windows XP, another operating system from Microsoft.
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When you forget your password or the administrator’s password for your Windows XP or Vista machines, it can be a real pain attempting to login to your system. Guessing the passwords and failing three or more times will automatically lock your Windows account except for the administrator.
Once your account is locked, it will take the administrator of that machine to unlock it. If you knew the administrator passwords, it wouldn’t be difficult, but the problems is you don’t know the administrator passwords and that’s where reading this tutorial comes in.
Posted in How-To Tips, Security, Windows Tags: Booting, Hard disk drive, Hiren, ISO image, Microsoft Windows, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP View CommentsIf you sense that your computer is not working as it used to, you can new restore it to an earlier point in time and resolve some of the issues that may be affecting your computer.
Windows Vista and Windows 7 have a feature called System Restore which allows you to restore your computer to previous state without losing any of your documents or pictures.
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