While Windows Explorer is the best file explorer when it comes to browsing files that we have saved on our hard drives, viruses make use of certain properties in Windows Explorer to disable some important functions. These viruses usually come from USB Flash drives and disable the functions like hidden files can’t be unhidden again …
Device driver installation has always been a headache for most of the people. Either one thing or the other is always missing. Once we want to clean install Windows, we have to make sure that we have got all the device drivers for our system. If we miss some of the drivers, nothing works fine. …
File format or file type is a specific way of storing a file in a computer. The file types determine the how the file can be opened. File type is usually determined by the characters after the last dot of the file name. For example, JPEG is a very popular file format which is used …
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Microsoft has already announced that Windows Live Messenger will be discontinued in March 2013. All the Windows Live Messenger users will be shifted to Skype which was recently bought by Microsoft. This means that Skype will be the only messenger application available for Microsoft. While Microsoft is encouraging users to shift to Skype earlier than …
All latest processors come with physical and logical core to support multi-threading and boost up parallel computing operations. I have recently written about the difference between a physical socket, physical core and a logical processor. Windows 8 is the newest Operating System from Microsoft. Microsoft has introduced a lot of visual changes in Windows 8. …
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(Image credit: Wikipedia) Back in the old days, Intel and AMD used to have processors with a single core. This essentially meant that the processor would behave like a single processor allowing only sequential operations on the CPU.This was limiting the operations of heavy processor intensive applications. This is where the concept of hyper-threading came …
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Windows 8 has just been released officially on 26th of October, 2012. When we go to Microsoft Windows 8 page, we get a straight forward Windows 8 system requirements from Microsoft. You will see the following system requirements: Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) …
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If you have recently downloaded a trial software and want to test it for more than the trial period which is normally 30 days, this article is exactly for you. This article describes different ways to extend the trial period of trial software. The below methods will not be able to get you complete software. …
I was working on Microsoft Excel 2010 and I needed to combine or merge the content in two cells into one. While searching the Internet, I found many methods of doing this so I thought of listing down all the methods here so that it may be useful for everyone to know. Using the concatenate …
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Recently I was reading about a Windows 8 problem faced by a Windows 8 user. The problem was weird because no matter how correctly he typed the password during Windows 8 logon, he would get the password incorrect error. I was able to reciprocate the error message on my installation of Windows 8. I setup …
