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If you’re using Windows XP and below and frequently use a removable drive such as thumb drive and external hard drive, there are big chances that your PC has been infected with viruses from the drive. Every time your USB drive is inserted to your PC, Windows will automatically execute the program which is set in the Autorun.inf file that might be a virus.

The solution to this problem is to disable autorun on all removable drives. Just follow the step below : -
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Tired of seeing a lot of my windows live friends getting their messenger infected with virus, I’ve stumble into this very useful little program which can remove your MSN / Windows Live Messenger virus, for free of course.

Instead of giving a virus warning to every of your friends in the list, it’s a better choice to remove it instead .
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Especially to Windows Live Messenger lovers, you might not need this little windows messenger anymore. I found a simple way to remove it permanently from your computer. Here’s how:

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The ability to use an advance, feature-rich HTML editor shouldn’t cost a penny to you. With over 400 available plugins, HTML-Kit would be more than enough to fulfill your web editing and creation needs.

Click the image to view full sized

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By default, every posts on your wordpress blog will create a link that is unfriendly to the search engine.
For example :
www.yourblog.com/?p=1

By applying a simple fix outlined below, every of your posts will create a link that’s not just friendly to the search engine but also to humans’ eyes. This is how it will look like:

www.yourblog.com/Your-Post-Title

Here’s how it can be done

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If you’re used to Adobe Reader to view your pdf files, you should have know how slow and heavy the software is. By using this alternative pdf viewer, you will not only be able to view your pdf file much faster then before but also experience the many extra powerful features from the software!
Some of the extra features are :

• Mark-up pages with text and objects
• Type directly on any PDF page, not just Adobe enabled forms documents - in Typewriter mode.
• Export PDF pages or entire files to any one of the supported Image formats including BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and many more …
• Extract text from a PDF page/File
• Make your navigation of large or complex PDF files both simple and enjoyable with the extended functionality of our ‘Loupe’ and the ‘Pan’ Window tools
• Fill and Save Adobe Forms to disk, email or ‘post’ !
• Full Javascript Engine included
• Updated JPEG2000 Compression support - improving speed.
• Plug-Ins for both MS IE or Firefox Browser’s included
• Portable version also available - can be run from any suitable device such as a Memory stick/CD/DVD etc - simply unzip and use - no installation required - just 4MB download !

And many more!

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Don’t you ever dream of having a Windows Vista GUI as your Windows XP theme? Here is your chance to do so, for FREE.

This very cool utilities is called Windows Vista Transformation Pack, which transform your Windows XP skin to look exactly like the pretty Windows Vista skin and visual features.

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WinRAR is a shareware software which requires you to buy a license to continue using it. Although it seems like it never expires even after the 40 days evaluation period had passed, the little expiry notice dialog box might be bugging your view. Thus, using this free alternative to the software would be a great choice.

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The slowness in Windows Vista are mainly caused by the windows visual effect that makes your windows GUI looks very much prettier than the previous Windows XP.

The simple solution to this problem is to disable the mostly useless windows vista visual effect without disabling the Vista GUI. Here’s how :

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