Enable Private Browsing on Google Chrome and IE

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You can easily enable private browsing on Google Chrome and IE (internet Explorer). This means that there will be no website history recorded or internet cookies saved and therefore your visits have no records. When browsing the internet normally, all visits are recorded as visited website history which then has to be cleaned out later. [...]

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All About the Windows Firewall

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If you are an experienced PC user, you definitely know what firewall is, but if not, this article will tell you exactly that! A firewall refers to a security system put in place to protect your computer when it connects to the internet or any other local or wide area network. What is a Firewall [...]

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Five Computer Viruses That Made Headlines And Caused Billions In Damages

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Since the beginning of the millennium that have been the numerous computer viruses that have plagued networks and computer users around the globe. Of these, five stand out as the most notorious headline makers that rocked the computing world and the billions of dollars in damages. Knowing the history and background of these five computer [...]

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Looking For The Best Internet Speed Test Site To Use? Read This Review!

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Picking a good internet speed test website is no easy task at all.  A quick search on Google will throw up hundreds of these sites but most of the time the websites are nothing but a mere traffic trap. The majority of them give out inaccurate test results and only a handful come even remotely [...]

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Keep Your Files Safe Using Remote Backup

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Remote backup can help keep your files safe—but it can also make them easier to hack. Let’s find out if remote backup is a useful service or dangerous hype. The Risks Of Remote Backup You know your disk drive will fail someday and there’s no way to predict when it will happen. It might not [...]

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Task Manager Buttons Disappeared – No Tabs No Close Buttons

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If you are using Task Manager in Windows when randomly the minimize, maximize and close buttons vanish, there is no need to panic. You will notice that all the tab menu options have gone too so you will not be able to navigate in task manager at all. You are stuck on the performance tab [...]

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10 Quiz Questions About Windows Basics

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Here is a new computer quiz with 10 questions all focusing on Windows basics. In the past the computer quizzes have been mixed content but I decided to make each set on a particular topic.

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What Can I Do in Safe Mode

June 7, 2013

What can I do in safe mode on my computer? You must have seen an option “Safe mode” specifically when your computer will not boot or has a runtime error followed by a reboot. While rebooting, it suddenly stops on a black & white screen with several options in front of you to choose from, [...]

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Stopping Facebook Notifications

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There’s nothing quite like the exhilarating rush of logging onto Facebook and seeing that wonderful globe lit up red with a number next to it — no doubt to signal that a long lost ex-lover is reaching out to rekindle a romance that went by the wayside. As exciting as that is, the disappointment when [...]

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Convert Documents and Files To PDF

June 3, 2013

Most popular word processor that is in use during these days is Microsoft Word. Similarly, most popular document distribution format is Adobe PDF (Portable document format). Adobe PDF remains on the top of document distribution because Microsoft has still not developed a save option for direct authoring of PDF documents and most commercial converters do [...]

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Disable CPU Core Parking For Dual And Quad Processors

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Did you know that the cores in your processor may not be used and therefore you can disable cpu core parking? Sounds crazy but the CPU cores are parked and not being utilized. I bought a new hp laptop that has seven cores and I wanted to know if the operating system was actually using [...]

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How to Open the On-Screen Keyboard

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You are probably wondering why you would ever need an on-screen keyboard when you have a real keyboard right in front of you. Well things happen, and trust me, one day you may need it. A friend of mine used it regularly because he was missing a few keys off his laptop keyboard.. They were [...]

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