Category: Tips & Tricks

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Speed Up Logoff, Restart & Shutdown Process in XP, Vista & Windows 7

You may notice the shutdown and restart process appear to be sluggish sometimes. This often happens when there are too many applications added to the Startup. Apparently the easiest way to speed up these processes is by reducing the number …

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Esnips Downloader: Download files from eSnips.com

eSnips is a website that allows you to share your passions. You can upload almost everything; music, videos, photos, files, and anything you find on the web. You can control with whom your items are shared with just by getting …

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How to Create Partition or New Drive in Windows Vista

Unlike Windows XP, Windows Vista comes with built-in tool to help you creating partition on your hard drive on the fly. This feature comes handy especially to those who like better management of their enormous hard drive or perhaps to …

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How to Play .FLV Files in Windows Media Player

As we all know FLV files cannot run on Windows Media Player and what I usually do is to open the related files with VLC player. VLC player is no doubt one of the versatile media players out there that …

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Auto Shutdown PC After Winamp Playlist Ends

For those who love to listen to their favorite playlists in Winamp might be thinking of having a feature that will turn off PC after the playlist ends. This feature comes handy especially when you do listen to some of …

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How to Open .XLSX Spreadsheet Files Without Excel 2007

Files with extension xlsx is the default extension for spreadsheets written in Microsoft Office Excel 2007. I really thought the extension was made backward-compatible and you don’t have to worry when you are about to open the files in previous …

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How to Download Songs from IMEEM

Imeem has been around for almost 5 years but I never used them before. Why should I, when I can get most of the songs just by googling them on the net? Unfortunately, there is rare moment where you can’t …

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How to check if BIOS update is needed

We are always reminded to keep our softwares ranging from antivirus system to even games to be updated. The reasons can be either to make sure any security bug that might pose harm to the entire system is fixed up …