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Revert odd pages preview in Microsoft Word to have them at the right

TheFreeWindows — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:21:26 +0000

Especially if you are preparing a publication, needing to preview your document as if you were browsing a real book, you may be annoyed by Word showing odd pages at the left. You can easily change that by going to the “Page Setup” section of the “Page Layout” tab, then “Margins” > “Custom Margins”. At [...]

Disable Comodo Message Center

TheFreeWindows — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:55 +0000

One of the best free firewalls available, Comodo Firewall includes a message center, that from time to time pops up invitations for an upgrade to a commercial version of the program. This can be annoying, but it is not necessary, you can avoid it easily without any crack or hack. Right click Comodo’s icon in [...]

Revert custom text formatting to Normal in Microsoft Word

TheFreeWindows — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:24:02 +0000

You may face this problem in your Microsoft Word document. In some sentences, or paragraphs or even pages and chapters you applied custom formatting, but now you need to change the style of the entire document, without influencing headers. Modifying the Normal template won’t help, because customized text keeps its settings and won’t obey to [...]

Blank pages after Better WP Security removal

TheFreeWindows — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:02:21 +0000

Better WP Security is an interesting plugin for WordPress, powerful, but also dangerous. I’m not convinced that the plugin will not influence the traffic of a blog for the worse. Anyway, if for any reason you decide to remove it, you may face strange problems. If Better WP Security is removed, and you can not [...]

Migrate Windows to SSD easily and safely, without reinstalling anything

TheFreeWindows — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:56:42 +0000

Just finished transferring Windows 8 to a Solid State Drive (SSD) using a disk image instead of re-installing everything, I thought others might find useful some information on that, and avoid mistakes that I made. Let me just say how great this change was, programs run so much faster now on the SSD, even InDesign, [...]