Suspect A Virus? Here’s what you can do immediately …

Caught A Virus? If you’ve let your guard down–or even if you haven’t–it can be hard to tell if your PC is infected. Here’s what to do if you suspect the worst. Heard this one before? You must run antivirus software and keep it up to date or else your PC will get infected, you’ll […]

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How To Rename File Extensions?

A lot of people here may ask how to rename a file extension in windows; well it’s very simple and takes little of your time. There are two ways to rename a file extension ‘without’ a stupid program. Number 1, Folder Options: Go into your Control Panel, in my case I use Windows XP so […]

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How To Boot up Windows Really Fast?

First of all, this tweak only apply to those who only have one HDD on their primary IDE channel (nothing else on device 0 or 1) and a CD-ROM and/or DVD-ROM on the secondary IDE channel. Each time you boot Windows XP, there’s an updated file called NTOSBOOT-*.pf who appears in your prefetch directory (%SystemRoot%Prefetch) […]

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How To Change “Start” Button Text to Something Else

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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A Brief History of DOS

Contents: Disclaimer Introduction History The Memory Map Timeline and History Chart Future of DOS Postscript Bibliography Disclaimer: Although this document is purely informative, the author claims no responsibility for any misguided souls who find a way to twist its contents into anything harmful or overly offensive. Introduction: When a computer is turned on an Operating […]

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UNIX Hacking Tutorial

———————- o Intent: ———————- This phile is geared as an UNIX tutorial at first, to let you get more familiar with the operating system. UNIX is just an operating system, as is MS-DOS, AppleDOS, AmigaDOS, and others. UNIX happens to be a multi-user- multi-tasking system, thus bringing a need for security not found on MSDOS, […]

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How to Use FlashFXP

For most updated content, visit our website Q: What is FXP? A: FXP is a term adopted by earlier clients which provided site to site FTP transfers. Q: When trying to transfer files from one site to another I keep getting this error 500 illegal port command. A: The FTP Server is set up to […]

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How to Make Firefox (considerably) Faster?

Yes, firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more? That’s the beauty of this program being open source. Here’s what you do: In the URL bar, type “about:config” and press enter. This will bring up the configuration “menu” where you can change […]

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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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