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Microsoft reviving Windows Vista’s image?

Vikas — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:15:14 +0000

As a user who uses Windows Vista every day, I don’t seem to find what is wrong with it. It is not perfect I know but then no OS is. It is perfectly compatible with my system, software and hardware. However, after installing Windows Vista the very first thing I did was disable UAC. That [...]

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Removing virus/spyware infected DLLs from memory

Vikas — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:19:23 +0000

UnDLL is a specific application created for Windows XP and Windows 2000 which allows you to remove any DLL (Dynamic Link Libraries) from Windows’ memory. Most of the virus and spyware infect DLLs besides infecting executables. UnDLL is a specific application which allows you remove the infected DLLs, search for infected threads, and clearing the [...]

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Optimize Firefox using FireTune

Vikas — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:55:05 +0000

FireTune is a freeware utility which allows you to quickly optimize your Firefox for best performance. FireTune works for almost any Firefox version including the latest Firefox 3. FireTune actually applies a very well collection of tweaks and settings for Firefox which were previously discovered. Since these settings are already proved to be better, there’s [...]

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Create Powerful Self Decrypting Archives

Vikas — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:28:47 +0000

There are times when one you need to encrypt only few files, not the whole disk. For example, when you need to transfer your important files using USB disk, there is no need to encrypt the whole USB disk. You just need to encrypt the files. This is where the problem starts. If you encrypt [...]

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Logging into Administrator account without Administrator privileges

Vikas — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:45:29 +0000

Sometime back, I posted a way to reset or change Administrator’s password and use it as a way to login to Administrator’s account in Windows XP. That trick had two drawbacks, first you must have Administrator’s privileges to change password, and second the Administrator will know someone has accessed his account since the password will [...]

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Switching Tasks with DExposE2

Vikas — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:35:47 +0000

Sometime before I wrote about the Task Switcher XP which is quite a handy tool for visually switching programs, and provides more options for the programs. DExposE2 is another great tool which mimics the Expose of Mac OS X. This is the best alternative which you can get for it. You can minimize all the applications [...]

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Search and Download Movie Subtitles From Your Desktop

Vikas — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:31:56 +0000

Finding movie subtitles can become as easy as pie if you’re using Sublight. It is a utility which enable you to search movie subtitles and download them to your computer from your desktop. It is quite easy to use and it can search for movie subtitles based on many criteria. It can automatically search for movie [...]

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