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Get Targeted traffic to your website

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Everyone wants and needs targeted traffic to their site. Especially now that is so simple to make small to large amounts of money from Google Adsense. All you have to do is get them there. You want visitors to your site who are already interested in your site’s topic and who are more likely to [...]

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How to turn Windows XP Firewall on or off

June 1, 2010

If you have another antivirus/ firewall program running, it is very important that you turn the Windows firewall and virus protection off. Otherwise it will interfere with the proper protection of your computer. Where is the Windows security settings, you say? Go to Start menu>control panel>Security Center (More about the Control Panel) To Turn the [...]

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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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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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Recover emails, files, and data from a crashed hard drive or computer

May 26, 2010

Recovering files from a crashed hard drive or simply recovering data from any hard drive can be lot easier now days as we all have devices and even data recovery freeware available to help us with this task. Everyone I know dreads the day when their computer might crash because they haven’t quite got around [...]

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Restore the Run Command Window to the Start Menu

May 26, 2010

Computer users are often faced with the dilemma of a missing run command window in the Windows XP start menu and need to restore the run command to it’s usual place. This is also a common problem in Windows Vista as the run command has to be added to the start menu manually as it [...]

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How to get to regedit and gpedit.msc when there is no run or command window

May 26, 2010

When you cannot get to your run dialog box or your command window it can cause problems for you. Even to bring your run box back you might need to use regedit or gpedit.msc. See how to restore the run command box. The run window is used to type in commands like cmd for a [...]

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Change User Passwords When Logged in as an Administrator

May 26, 2010

Changing other user passwords can be a costly and nasty trick to perform. I often have people come in with their computers because they have simply forgotten their password. However in some cases they have not forgotten their user password, it has been changed. When curious minds get hold of this way to change user [...]

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Perform a disk cleanup to delete unwanted or unused files

May 25, 2010

Performing a disk cleanup on a computer that has Windows is easy and hassle free. It is great for the inexperienced computer user as it deletes the files for you and is therefore safer than doing it yourself. The disk cleanup can delete unused and temporary files from your hard drive. Files such as the [...]

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Computer Maintenance Checklist – Keep Your Computer Running Smoothly

May 24, 2010

When you first got your new computer home and it was running like clockwork, I bet the thought of a huge computer maintenance checklist never entered your thoughts? The thrill of the new machine over powers you, but unfortunately after a few weeks of pleasurable use it becomes slower due to the buildup of data. [...]

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A free program to recover (Recuva) and restore accidentally deleted pictures, photos, and files

October 22, 2008

Sooner or later you will be desperate to find out how to recover deleted files, because accidentally deleting your precious pictures, photos, and files is bound to happen to anyone. I hope that you do not encounter this dilemma, however if you do, you may possibly have a chance to recover deleted files. One way [...]

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