A Brief History of SpyWare

There are a lot of PC users that know little about “Spyware”, “Mal-ware”, “hijackers”, “Dialers” & many more. This will help you avoid pop-ups, spammers and all those baddies. What is spy-ware? Spy-ware is Internet jargon for Advertising Supported software (Ad-ware). It is a way for shareware authors to make money from a product, other […]

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How to Find Anything on Very Long Web Pages

Has this ever happened to you? You’re looking for something on a long web page with Internet Explorer or Netscape. You think it’s there, but you’re faced with seemingly insurmountable number of paragraphs, sentences, and words to hunt though. Well, next time this happens to you, hit the Edit menu, Find (or CTRL-F for you […]

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How to Change Start Button Text in Windows XP

Step 1 – Modify Explorer.exe File In order to make the changes, the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows needs to be edited. Since explorer.exe is a binary file it requires a special editor. For purposes of this article I have used Resource Hacker. Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete […]

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How to Find out TRUE Hidden Files in Windows

–ACRONYMS– DOS = Disk Operating System, or MS-DOS MSIE = Microsoft Internet Explorer TIF = Temporary Internet Files (folder) HD = Hard Drive OS = Operating System FYI = For Your Information 1) SEEING IS BELIEVING No. Enabling Windows Explorer to “show all files” does not show the files in mention. No. DOS does not […]

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