free computer tips

Five Reasons Your MP3 Player Doesn’t Show Your Album Art

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Mp3 player album art is both a common and annoying problem. You have a music collection on your computer complete with beautiful, high resolution album art, and a portable MP3 player or smartphone which, no matter what you do, won’t show that artwork! It does not matter if you have an ipod with music album covers or [...]

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Computer Maintenance Tips and Tricks to Backup, Scan and Clean

June 24, 2010

Computer maintenance is a part of everyone’s lives now, much like owning a car and getting it serviced, it just has to be done. Computers are the same, needing regular maintenance, as they get clogged up with truck loads of hidden files. I have published many articles about computer maintenance, however the most popular article is my [...]

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Change your default search engine in Internet Explorer 7

June 5, 2010

Here’s how to change your default search engine in Internet Explorer 7 Open Internet Explorer 7 Go to the tools menu at the top From the drop down menu choose Internet Options On the General tab next to the heading change search defaults double click on the settings button A Change Search Defaults box will [...]

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How to open only your first homepage in Internet Explorer 7

June 5, 2010

When you have more than one home page in Internet Explorer 7 it can be annoying when they all open every time you open another window. There fore I usually change the tab settings in Internet Explorer to only open the first home page when the program starts. Here’s how to open only your first [...]

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Delete, Merge, Create, and Rename a Hard Drive Partition Without Formatting Windows

June 1, 2010

When you format your computer you are asked if you want to create partitions on your hard drive. I definitely recommend having your hard drive at least halved and made into two partitions for starters. This is not unreasonable as most hard drives in computers now days are getting rather large. Therefore you can afford [...]

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Use message rules as a spam filter to stop junk email

May 31, 2010

Free Computer Help From Mitz If you are familiar with using Outlook Express message rules you will already know how amazingly handy they can be. Did you know that you can use this program as a spam filter.  I create a message rule for nearly every email that enters my computer, therefore when spam or [...]

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How to set message rules in Outlook Express Email

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By Mitz See more Outlook Express Email Tips How did you ever survive without Message rules? I really don’t know how I did. It is a handy tool in Outlook Express that is used to filter and organize your email messages into specific folders that you name. They also block or delete unwanted mail. How [...]

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How to send an email in Outlook Express

May 30, 2010

By Mitz See more Outlook Express Email Tips Open Outlook Express. Press on the create mail icon at the top left . A new email box will appear. There are three sections to fill out. To: The address of where you are sending your email. Subject: Write the subject of your email. Content Box: Write [...]

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Change drive letters or directories in the dos command (cmd) window

May 29, 2010

Writing commands into a dos command window is not a secret, because before Windows was invented, you needed to be able to navigate around the computer somehow and therefore we had to learn how to change drive letters. When I say change drive letters, I mean in a Dos window, not change drive letters of [...]

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How to sell on Ebay to make a profit

May 28, 2010

By Mitz Most people I know use Ebay regularly to buy and sell everything from Plants to Plasmas TV’s. The phenomena has grown to astronomical proportions and is now one of the most popular home based businesses. It appears to be an obviously easy business to run, which makes it an attractive prospect. The sad [...]

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Download and convert Youtube videos to your computer to save

May 28, 2010

More Youtube video tips Watching videos, movie clips, music video clips, and more on Youtube is great, however it is even better when you can watch the video clip anytime you like. Now the latest “thing” is to download the your favorite Youtube video, convert it to a suitable video format, and save it to [...]

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Convert DVD to avi Divx with DVD decrypter and DVDx free

May 28, 2010

When I want to convert a DVD movie to AVI I like to use DVD decrypter and DVDx because they are both free programs and do a great job. Converting DVD movie files to Avi compresses the file into one neat little package, whereas there are up to 50 DVD files for one movie. Firstly, [...]

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