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Entries for October, 2008

Set Your Default Web Brower for Your User Profile

How many times it has happened to you that wish you to use Firefox as your favorite and default web browser but your brother or sister wish to use Internet Explorer as his/her default web browser? This is a common conflict in case of a single computer shared by many users with different user profiles [...]

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Not Able to Remove Virus Even After Format?

Strange but true, there are times when we decide to get rid of some virus or a worm by reformatting the system but even after formatting the PC we are shocked to see the virus back in our computers. This is what happened to my friend who formatted the PC just to get it cleaned [...]

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Bought a New iPhone 3G

Hi friends!!
I know this is offbeat but i just can’t help it. I got a new iPhone 3G today for myself, here in Delhi from Vodafone.

Believe me, the Phone is just awesome.
Hope to bring out more better materials now.

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Extract mp3 Audio from Video Files like avi, mpg, wmv, flv

It happens most of the times we just like to listen to the audio of a video file and add it into our music library. This is not a problem any more as this can be done using many tools available and of course without using them as well.
We can easily convert the video to [...]

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Steps to Fix Access Denied to gpedit.msc Problem

My PC was working all fine until I figured out that Group Policy gpedit.msc was not opening on my system. I wanted to open the Group Policy editor for some work and I was shocked to find that not only the gpedit.msc, even the other commands with msc extensions, were not working like services.msc, devmgmt.msc, [...]

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Steps to Remove regsvr.exe Virus

There are so many types of computer viruses in this world that removing them and finding a specific solution for each of them is a big ask. One such virus that screwed me is regsvr.exe classified as a W32.Imaut worm.
It has become a daily routine that when I plug my pen drive in my college [...]

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Solution to Problem when Connecting to Server in Counter Strike

I like playing games a lot and last time while playing Counter Strike when I tried to join an online server there was a problem while connecting to the server. This is a common problem faced by most of us who like to play Counter Strike online.

I knew the server address to connect but when [...]

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Upload Suspicious Files to ThreatExpert

My Antivirus (Symantec) and I are good at finding any virus or any suspicious file and removing it successfully. I am able to remove any virus from the system or a pen drive without any tool and have been doing it for a long time now but there are several files that we feel suspicious [...]

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Steps to Download, Save or Record Live Streaming Audio

We like listening to music and also enjoy downloading it from internet, don’t we? Websites that provide us with the direct links to download the music or the song is liked by us while there are several other sites that do not allow us to download but to enjoy it online.
I came across a useful [...]

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Steps to Save .swf Flash File from Website

We all like surfing the net a lot (it’s my one of the favorite activities as well ) and happens to us that we come across some really interesting flash animation that we wish to view again. There can be many flash animations like Flash game, Flash Advertisements, Flash Tutorials, Flash Movie etc and [...]

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Fix System Restore does not Open problem

Never thought that this can be a problem but it is true that one of our readers wanted to know what to do when System Restore does not open.

You can also open system restore by typing %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe in Run box (try running this command before trying following steps).
So to keep it short and specific, here [...]

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Solution to Start the Printer Spooler Services

One of our readers was facing this problem that he was unable to start the printer spooler services and an error pops up saying: “Spooler subsystem app has encountered a problem and needs to close”.

First let’s see what is Print Spooling?
In Print Spooling documents gets loaded into a buffer that is usually an area on [...]

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