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I've just been introduced to Hitman Pro, an alternative malware scanning software that does a pretty decent job. Running this malware scanner it found a toolbar (Ask toolbar or something like that) that was loaded arbitrarily in my Chrome browser. If found it and removed it when no other...

Years back, there was this great computer program called Music Match Juke Box. It could rip CDs, name the files according to a selected protocol, play your pmusic as aserial playlist or random assortment and it could burn Audio CDs and WMA or MP3 CDs with voulme leveling. I bought a copy with...

Hi. I plan to buy Macrium Reflect Pro (MR). I tested latest build 5529 (version 5.1) trial a couple of days now. Some questions came up ... I use Windows 7 & Ubuntu 12.10 on a GPT HDD inside a UEFI system. 1. Can I backup the GPT structure of the HDD, meaning I can restore on bare metal? 2...

Hi I really don't get this! If a computer can do anything it should be able to find files. Today I needed to find a file that I did for my niece a year ago. I don't remember what I named it or where I saved it. After trying a few things I decided to narrow it down by just getting a list of...

hi all. need some help, so hope someone can oblige. have used ATI for a long time with no problems on various machines, including my Windows 7 Ultimate, x86 computer. this machine has a WD black caviar sata lll 500gig hdd, but is connected on sata ll (mobo doesn't support sata lll). have just...

Hello there, My Uncle bought a new HDD and wanted to migrate his Windows 7 Installation from its original HDD to the new one (Maxtor to Hitachi). A tech friend of mine recommended CloneZilla, a freeware imaging program which would allow me to make an image of the HDD and transfer it to another...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Open-source office suite OpenOffice.org is apparently getting under software giant Microsoft's skin - so much so, in fact, that it appears to be starting a propaganda campaign to protect its revenue stream. Microsoft Officeis one of the company's biggest selling...

Most everyone who's had some experience with free open source software has learned about the OpenOffice.org suite of productivity programs: a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and drawing tool that provide a good deal of the functionality of their commercial counterparts. For...

My Acronis True Image 2009 failed. I didn't know that it was incompatible with Windows 7. I made a complete backup (which I presume is an image of drive C using the Windows 7 inbuilt backup. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the Acronis system, but is the built-in system as...

Hi all, I have an ancient copy of Foxpro for Windows 2.6 from the early 1990s that I've moved from PC to PC over the years. I don't reinstall from original disks; I just copy the program's directory into \program files\ and it's worked fine on systems up to and including XP3. I did need to...

I am running a medium-size Active Directory domain, based on Windows Server 2003. We are starting to introduce Windows 7 clients in the domain, and I need a way to make so that Windows 7 boxes can receive instant messages sent by the domain admin using the classic "net send" command. Since the...

In XP Pro I used Free Download Manager free with no trouble at all. I also used Gadwin Print Screen free with no trouble. However I haven't been able to see that these two are approved for use in W7. Do any of you know what I could use? Thanks. J.

WordPad now seems to look like Microsoft Office. I do not have Microsoft Office nor ever intend to. WordPad seems to do pretty much everything I need - except: It doesn't seem to have a way of putting tables into a document. The rtf format allows for tables. It can read documents with...

As I asked before, Please find something that doesn't have a Linux equivalent or wont run on wine. Before you start naming every video game you can think of, I know, direct x this and direct x that. most games wont work even with wine. An interesting aside however, the most popular online...

I know it's possible to navigate to parent folder by pressing Alt+ArrowUp in Win7. However, that's hard to press, I need two hands for that. AltGr+ArrowUp doesn't work. How to make another, easier keyboard shortcut for Alt+ArrowUp? Also, how to make a shortcut for Open parent folder in a new...

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Hided Icon box ------------------------ in the notification area, windows shows hidden icons with the upper button.. When we click it, the hidden icons box appears.. In hidden box , we can sort the icons but i wish we were able to size it too.. in my windows , 9 icons sorted 3x3 for now, but i...

I used to run a program called Task Arrange in XP which allowed me to re-arrange the buttons in the windows taskbar. Currently it does not work with Vista (crashes explorer.exe) and therefore I would like to know if anyone knows of a similar program. The site for Task Arrange is Link Removed -...