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Computer and Internet without any doubt has made our lifestyle easier and accessible round the globe, but with this boon there is always a threat which has taken the front sheet in out conscious threats regarding the security. Each and every minute if you use your computer for your business presentation, financial details, communicating with your client and what so ever a security concern always raises the alarm. Here in this article we are going to take on the issue ..read more

How to Show More Sites On the Internet Explorer 9 New Tab Page

The new version of Internet Explorer finally adds a new tab page that shows your most recently used sites, but sadly you can’t customize the display from the options panel. What you can use, however, is a registry hack.To make the change for yourself, you can simply head over to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing\NewTabPage key in the registry editor, and then change the value of NumRows to the number ..read more

How to Delete Individual Entries from the Internet Explorer Address Bar

Whenever you type an address directly into the Internet Explorer’s address bar, the URL will be saved in IE’s history. If you pull downdown this list later, those URLs will show up.  Because of privacy and security concerns, you may want to delete these entries periodically. Although you can remove the website URLs from the address bar dropdown list by clearing the history from Internet Explorer, its tougher ..read more

I have often ran across computers that I needed to gain access to for data recovery, but I didnt have the administrator password to access the hard drive. Since in many situations, there is just one administrator account I can’t log into another administrator account and change the password so I have to rely on other methods. I could put the hard drive into another computer as a slave and gain access (sometimes) or  I could try installing a second copy of ..read more

I’ve had a few computers that will not boot correctly after I’ve installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 on them. The computer finishes the install and then prompts for a reboot. The computer will start to reboot then give a BSOD Stop Error for a second and reboot again. This process will continue unless the computer is started in Safe Mode. In Safe mode the computer boots correctly and everything seems fine.

This problem only appears on some systems after upgrading ..read more