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Nothing stays new forever. The same goes with your PC. As it gets older, it gets slower. A time may come when your PC becomes so slow that it takes you hours to finish a job that would usually be done in minutes. This slow down in PC performance puts unnecessary stress on computer users and frustrates them. In this article, you will be introduced to 3 simple methods to help you perform several

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If you don't already have a quick launch icon or a hotkey set to open a command prompt, there's really quick trick that you can do on any Windows Vista computer to open up a command prompt without having to navigate the menu.Just hold down the Shift key and right-click on the desktop.And then you can choose "Open Command Window Here" from the menu. The great thing about this is that the current

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Do you know that a laptop is able to save up to 80% of electricity comparing to a desktop?A typical desktop uses about 500 to 600 Watt Power Supply Unit.Let’s take 600 Watt Power Supply Unit as example and assuming loading is about 80% for most of the time, the power used by a typical desktop is about 480W.A notebook uses 60 to 65 Watt Power Adaptor, the max power will be to charge the battery

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What Kind of Memory Does My Computer Have Installed?If you are looking to upgrade the memory in your computer, you are probably wondering how many open slots you have, what type of memory is already installed, and what you need to buy for an upgrade without having to open your computer.Since you shouldn't have to open up the computer just to figure out what you have installed, here's a couple of

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Detect And Eliminate Malware Using Windows DefenderWindows Defender is a tool built in Windows Vista. Currently it's also available as a free download from Microsoft for Windows XP users.This application lets you do manual, scheduled, and real-time scanning with automatic updates of spyware signatures, without a large performance penalty.You can also use it to control what applications run at

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Computer Security: Free Anti-Virus Protection With AVG Free EditionAs technology advances, more and more people are actually very dependent on computers. No matter personal or work related, it often involves personal information or classified data.Internet is another great help in our life, like a forest full of resources. But people should never forget, there are dangers lurking around the

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Since Jul 2007, Computer Tips and Tricks begins to attract readers from all over the world with various people from different professions around the blogsphere.Majority of our traffic are Unique Traffic from Google Search Engine whom wishes to look for latest Technology Product and News.The following are some of our sponsor options that you might be interested to increase the awareness of your

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Computer Tips and Tricks Supports Children’s SocietyAt Computer Tips and Tricks, you can contribute to the society just by advertising in this blog. 50% of the all monthly sales earning will be going to the Singapore Children’s Society.As a regular contributor to Singapore Children’s Society, we also encourages you to share your existing wealth with the children by making a meaningful donation to

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Specially requested by Innovative Minds at Work, on how to add Social Bookmarking Link in post.As many might already know, one of the best way of building Backlink for your site/blog is adding it to Social Bookmarking Websites. Other than requesting your reader to help Bookmarking it if they find it useful, it's also equally important to provide them an easy way of Bookmarking.Basically there's 3

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Has Windows Vista ever freeze on your when you're trying to open certain program or trying to use certain Windows Component such as the Search Files Function?Normally, the system freeze-up will occurred when you’re working on several file or document at the same time.Rebooting the system is not a good option to solve this problem because you will lose any unsaved data in any open programs or

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What is a stuck pixel?A stuck pixel will usually be most visible against a black background, where it will appear red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, or yellow, although stuck red, green, or blue pixels are most common.Each pixel on an LCD monitor is composed of three sub pixels (one red, one green, and one blue) which produce the visible color of the pixel by their relative brightness.A stuck pixel

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It's so troublesome to shut down Windows Vista comparing to Windows XP.Why am I saying this? Look at the picture below and you'll understand.By default, the Start Menu Power Button puts Windows Vista to sleep.Why call it Power Button when it's set to sleep by default?Makes me wonder too.While this may be fine for some, but for lazy people like me even an additional clicking is troublesome.But no

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Many people favors Firefox over Internet Explorer, including myself. One of the most advantage of Firefox over Internet Explorer is it's tons of extensions that enhance the functionality of the browser.There's over 1500 extensions and still growing in numbers everyday. Many of them can actually be used to improve your productivity.The following is my favorite Firefox extensions that will helped

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Yesterday a friend of mine asked me if there's anyway to login his Windows Vista without knowing the password.Apparently he changed it and forgot the new password.I believe quite a number of us encountered this problem too.Changing and forgotten the new password or unable to recall the old one.So I've decide to do some searching for my friend regarding this problem.To my surprise, someone from

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Starting up, shutting down and battery life are some of the major concern for Notebooks user.Although a laptop's main advantage is portability, but I'm sure we would not want to run around often looking for power supply.But why starting up and shutting down?Personally, the reason I get a laptop is to use it anywhere I am with limited time I have on hand. But imagine, if I've only 1 hour before my

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You are no doubt reading this article because you are wondering why on earth there are nearly a dozen processes running with the name svchost.exe. You can't kill them, and you don't remember starting them… so what are they?So What Is It?According to Microsoft: "svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries". Could we have that in english please?Some

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Most of us use our computers in a shared in environment with our family members, friends etc. But sometimes we may want set some permissions so that we can actually restrict access to certain folders which do not lie in our My Documents, My Pictures etc.In this case when you can restrict access to a particular folder which could be any where on your hard drive.Set File or Folder SecurityRight

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In the past, partitioning of hard disk can only be done during installation of Windows OS (Operating System).Right now, technology is so advance that we can partition our hard disk anytime.Even with Windows Vista installed and even with data in the current drive.One of the more advanced options for resizing your Windows Vista partition is to use the GParted Live CD, a bootable linux CD that takes

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Have you ever noticed that new folders that you create inside of your Home directory in Vista just look out of place?All the built-in folders have those stylish greenish icons, and your folders are ugly and yellow.Here's a simple and nice tip that enables you to change all you folder icon to the same new stylish one.The beauty of this tip is that you don't need to download anything at all. Just

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One of the most frustrating changes in Windows Vista is the lack of the "Up" button when browsing the file system.Unlike Windows XP which allows user easily "Up" to top folder.How about a really solid Up button that just works and doesn't bloat your system?If that's what you are looking for, and you don't mind paying $5, there is an add-on called Mavis Up Button that does exactly that, and

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Previously I've mention it's important to alway Create a System Restore Point before you do any tweaks to your Operating System.Even for changes or installation of software which you're not confident of, System Restore Point will be the most useful solution.Although it might save your Computer or Laptop from your destruction, but it takes far too many step to create a single restore point.(We're

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It’s always such a hassle to type in the http://, www. and the .com whenever we want to visit a certain web site.But do you know on modern browsers, such as IE7 and Firefox, hitting Ctrl + Enter will automatically fill in the www. and the .com part of the URL.Here's your shortcut method.Just type ‘google’ in your address bar.Now hit Ctrl + Enter together and it’ll automatically fill up the http:/

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What are the different ways to Eject your CD or DVD drive?You can press the Eject button on the Physical Drive is it has one, right click on your CD or DVD drive in ‘My Computer’ and select ‘Eject’, or even use a Screw Driver and force it open!I’m a lazy person who’s often looking for ways and means to make my task or job simpler.Pressing the Eject button on the Physical Drive and… too lazy to

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So, it’s been awhile since Windows Vista has been released and been used by people around the world.How’s Windows Vista Performance till date?Has it made life easier for you or even simpler when Windows XP is around?I’ve done a search around the Internet and I’m quite surprised that in fact there’s quite a large sum of people who’s still using Windows XP and prefer XP to Vista.They might say it’s

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What ActiveX Does And Why You Need It What is ActiveX? ActiveX is a technology based on Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM) architecture that is primarily used by software programmers to create object oriented software components that can be used across multiple applications. ActiveX controls are based on this ActiveX technology and are used by Web developers to create ActiveX

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