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How to change what program opens a certain file in Windows Vista

June 2, 2010

Sometimes you need to manually tell Windows Vista to open a specific file with a certain program. Here’s how: Go to the start button on the bottom left corner. Then choose Control Panel Double click on Associate a file or protocol with a program as in the screenshot below. Then you highlight or make blue [...]

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Write A Batch File To Start a Program when you Start your computer

June 2, 2010

Every time I startup my computer it is usually so I can start the same program, which in my case is FrontPage. I update my webpage everyday so I decided to create a batch file to start this program automatically at startup so it is always ready for me to use. Here’s how to write  [...]

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How to attach, send, and save pictures in Outlook

May 30, 2010

The best part about sending e-mail is that you can send your favorite picture along with it. Gone are the good old days of having to get your photos developed so you can share them. Now all you have to do is attach it to an email and send. An e-mail attachment is a file [...]

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Open Office.org

May 29, 2010

OpenOffice.org 3 is the best free office suite software program. It is much like the more expensive Microsoft Office program however Open office is open-source free software. You can use Open Office for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. Open office can also open Microsoft Office files such as Power point files, Excel [...]

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Ccleaner

May 29, 2010

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes and deletes  unused or unwanted files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. You will be surprised at how much junk one computer can store in what seems to be unreachable hiding places. Ccleaner [...]

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Restoring Explorer.exe – Lost Desktop in Windows XP

May 26, 2010

Free computer help by Mitz Sometimes everything disappears from your desktop (computer crashes) when an error occurs in a program you are using. This is actually Windows Explorer that has closed. You will notice that the desktop icons, the taskbar, and sometimes the start menu all disappear. Here are some tricks I use to restore [...]

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How to pin a shortcut to a program in the start menu

May 26, 2010

When you want to find a program in your Windows start menu it can sometimes be hard to see what you want in amongst all the clutter. To open a simple program through the start menu can be a nightmare, depending on how many programs you have on your computer. If you have a lot [...]

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Download free computer software for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista

September 3, 2008

You can go to the Microsoft website to download free software for Windows XP or Vista, providing you have a legal and genuine copy of Windows installed. Infact there is a lot of computer software you can get from Microsoft, all free. You can also go to the Microsoft website to see the necessary system [...]

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How to use DVD Shrink to backup a DVD movie

June 3, 2007

DVD Shrink is free dvd ripping software that most people use to make backups of their favorite Dvd movie. You can see more information about this in our freeware section. The reason we need this program is because a regular dvd movie doesn’t fit on the average 4.7gig size dvd disc. Therefore we use Dvd [...]

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