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Seven Must-do Tasks

1- Cleaning of Data Storage Medium:

Clean the hard disk of all types of junk files. This can be done at night or alongside your daily work. Download CCleaner and install it with standard settings. Subsequently, the tool starts and clears the hard disk of any junk data. You can choose from Windows or applications in the cleaner settings under which there are a range of diverse file options
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Solutions for Booting Problems for XP (III)

Initiating Kernels - The NTLoader gives the command to the Windows kernel

Error: Computer hangs - The PC hangs when it shows the message “Windows is booting…”.

Solutions: Microsoft Help further - The Windows developers present several solutions for the numerous errors under http://support.microsoft.com/KB/314477

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Want some cookies?

Some antispyware programs regularly flag cookies as potential spyware. A cookie is nothing more than a text file that is used to identify you to some websites that you visit frequently or have registered with.

Cookies are harmless, but some people consider a website’s depositing a cookie on the machine as an invasion of piracy, so antispyware programs often alert you to the existence of them.

Generally, however you will note that the results of potential spyware threats are flagged with different colors/symbols/rates by the various antispyware applications.

Cookies are rarely flagged with as highly dangerous however. You will save time if you use the options available in your antispyware application to identify the level of threat you wish to ignore.

You should also regularly allow the antispyware software to update its signature or definitions files since errors in spyware detections or overly aggressive behaviour is sometimes corrected in these updates.

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Should ‘I agree’ to Spyware

 

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Let’s say you found a nice website and you downloaded an unknown software which you thought would be useful. During installation, there is the end user license agreement (EULA), and you say or click ‘I agree’ without reading it. Have you ever read the EULA? not many people read it and so do I. Why? Mostly because it would require an attorney to truly understand it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Solutions for Booting Problems for XP (II)


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Bootmen - The “boot.ini” file displays the boot menu; the user select Windows XP

Error:  Missing File - The message “boot.ini file missing” is displayed

Solutions: Repairing Boot Sector - Enter “bootcfg /rebuild” in the repair console

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Use Dual Pane Mode

If you click the My Computer icon on your Windows XP desktop, it will open a single pane window showing the drives and resources on your PC.

You can open My Computer in dual-pane mode - the default for the familiar Windows Explorer file manager - by holding down the Shift key while you double click the My Computer icon.

Dual-pane mode allows you to keep an overview of your PC visible in the left pane while showing you the contents of the selected drive or folder in the right hand pane.

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Solutions for Booting Problems for XP (I)

There are eleven phases of booting process in XP but it has been improved in Vista with only eight phases. And yet both of them are more sophisticated and complicated than starting a space rocket (three phases).

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Tab Browsing

Always opening websites in tabs instead of new windows.

When you click on some links, a new browser window opens automatically. But the latest Internet Explorer also supports tab browsing.

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