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Don’t Tell Your Boss About These Computer Tips

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I once read a study that said typical office workers only work 1.5 hours a day—if that applies to you, you might find the following computer tips useful to keep the boss from finding out what you do the other 6.5 hours a day. I take no responsibilty for how you use these computer tips [...]

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How to Speed Up Your Internet Connection

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Everybody loves having a blazing fast Internet connection, so learning how to speed up your internet connection is a must! Thankfully, it’s not a problem for most people, as ISPs around the world are working hard to provide a good service. But what if your Internet connection is slow for no apparent reason? Here are [...]

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What Setting To Tweak To Get A Faster Internet Speed?

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The best way to get a faster Internet speed depends a lot on what type of Internet connection you have. If you try to use the same method to get a faster Internet speed on both dial-up and fiber optic, the dial-up will run faster but the fiber optic will run slower, so it’s very [...]

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Basic Networking Explained: How To Connect Two Computers

April 6, 2011

How do you connect two computers to the Internet? That was a question that perplexed me the first time I tried to do it. I didn’t know what I needed to buy and how I would connect it all. Complicating the situation, there are several ways to connect two computers. One way we previously wrote [...]

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How To Use Two Wireless Routers In The Same House

March 23, 2011

If you have a big house (or office), you may find it necessary to run two wireless routers (or more) to share the internet connection around efficiently. Although you can just plug in both routers and start using them, a bunch of little network problems caused by having two wireless routers will soon start to [...]

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What is a static and a dynamic IP Address?

June 10, 2010

On your home network, when you connect to the internet your computer is automatically assigned a unique IP Address. This is called a Dynamic IP Address and is randomly chosen and could possibly be a different number each time you connect. If the first computer has 10.0.0.1 as its IP address and another computer connects [...]

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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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Delete your visited website history in Internet Explorer 7

June 5, 2010

When you use Internet Explorer to browse the internet, the websites you visit are stored in your browsing history and sometimes you need to delete website history. Now I can think of a million reasons why you should delete website history, well maybe not a million, but maybe a few. The main reason you should [...]

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How to make shortcut to a internet webpage on your Windows desktop or taskbar

June 5, 2010

It is also handy to put a shortcut to your absolute favourite webpage in the Quick launch toolbar. You need to make a shortcut on the desktop and then drag it to the Quick launch. How to create a link on the desktop to a webpage (Internet Explorer 5,6) Instead of opening Internet Explorer, going [...]

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Checking Your Windows Vista Activation Status

June 2, 2010

Windows Vista Tips This is an interesting and useful utility that will tell you the status of the computer you are working on that is using Windows Vista. If you are connected to the Internet, the utility will be able to tell you if the Windows Vista version you are using is fully licensed or [...]

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Set the supervisor password in Windows Content Advisor

May 31, 2010

By Mitz Free computer Help Applies to Windows Vista and Windows XP If you enable Windows content Advisor you will be asked to create a supervisor password to protect the settings that you have made. Knowing the password will let you go back and change what content you want to access on the computer. Here’s [...]

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Pick the rating levels that are allowed in the Windows Content Advisor

May 31, 2010

By Mitz Free computer Education Applies to Windows Vista and Windows XP You can choose your own rating levels in the Windows Content Advisor. Open Internet Explorer by clicking the Start button, and then choose Internet Explorer. Click the Tools from the menu at the top, and then click Internet Options. Click the Content tab, [...]

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