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Restrict Programs From Accessing The Internet In Windows

Windows Firewall is a handy tool to control the Internet traffic to and from Windows. Windows Firewall lets the user to allow or disallow programs from accessing the Internet. This dialog box usually comes when we open a program for the first time. Windows Firewall was introduced in Windows XP SP1 and it is still(…)

Password Protect Executables For Free: DiscoLock 1.0

A quite small utility that lets you to password protect our applications securely, it requires a password when the main executable is double clicked to run. DiscoLock can help you in the way to prevent unknown users from using your applications usually which access the internet. DiscoLock provides security at just one click to these(…)

How To Increase Virtual Memory In Windows XP

People often complaint that there PC is constantly showing up messages of low memory space. When you are in urgent need of your pc and your system crashes then you just feel banging your head against the wall. So just don’t hassle when you see messages like that because it is easy to increase virtual(…)

Edit Advanced File Types Associations And Properties

Windows Explorer gives us a way to edit the file types that Windows is handling but it is way to complex for most of us to even find the options. There are many utilities that make it easy for us to handle the file types. I have tested many of these utilities and recently found(…)

SUPERAntispyware Review And Free License Giveaway [5 Licenses]

As an IT Professional I have to deal with a lot of computers having security issues everyday. The biggest problem I face in my assessments is that there is no anti-virus and anti-spyware installed in the system while the owner thinks that he’s protected. Most of the people do install a free anti-virus but don’t(…)

The Complete Portable Web Server For Windows

XAMPP is an integrated server package of Apache, mySQL, PHP and Perl (the AMPP in XAMPP) that all run from a removable drive. Everything is pre-configured and ready to go just by unzipping or installing it

Ways to speed up Slow PC

Increase virtual memory of the system, Fix Slow PC One of the most asked question is how to increase speed of your computer or how to Fix a slow PC, because we all want to avail the maximum speeds possible with our hardware and software configurations. There are many reasons due to which PC running(…)

How to Un-install Adobe Air Applications in Ubuntu Linux?

Adobe Air applications are flexible enough to run on all major operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux. As far as Linux is concerned, Ubuntu is the most popular and used operating system of Linux. Adobe Air applications can easily be removed from Windows operating system through Add/Remove feature in control panel but un-installing(…)

Advanced File Types Association In Windows 7

There used to be an option in Windows XP under Folder Options about the File Type Associations but this option disappeared in Windows Vista and Windows 7. One may argue that Windows Vista and 7 do have the file type associations option when accessed through control panel but this seems to be a cut down(…)

Mouse Automatically Selects Any File In Windows

A client of mine is using Windows 7 and he reported a weird problem with his system. He told me that his mouse was behaving strange as it would select anything while he was hovering the mouse around. At first I didn’t understand the problem but when I used Team Viewer to connect to his(…)

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