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Uninstall Yahoo toolbar

We can uninstall Yahoo toolbar software from Windows by doing the following steps. Open Programs and Features wizard. You can open this by running appwiz.cpl from Run window. Alternative way to open this is to type ‘Programs and Features‘ in the start menu search box. Look for the entry ‘Yahoo! Toolbar’ in the list of [...]

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I use dual monitors with my Windows 7 computer. Sometimes the items on the Desktop move to the right side automatically.  We can restore the items to the left of the desktop screen by doing the following simple steps. Right click on the desktop. Click on Sort by Select any of the options : name, [...]

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If you are getting the below error when you launched Firefox browser then read on how to fix this problem. The error says  ‘Firefox is already running, but not responding. To open a new window, you must close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system‘. How to fix this error?: You can get rid [...]

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Putty is a tool for connecting to remote computers(Linux or Windows) through ssh or telnet protocols. When we open new connection to a remote computer using putty software, we need to provide username and password. This can be avoided by using ssh private and public keys. Below it’s explained how to generate these ssh keys [...]

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If you are getting the error ‘Compression is disabled for this volume‘ when you are trying to compress a file, then you can fix the problem by doing the steps mentioned in this article. These steps enable compression on the computer. You need to have administrator privileges to execute these steps. Open registry editor(Regedit) and [...]

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In Outlook 2010, we can find the mail box size by doing the following. In Outlook window, click on File menu. Click on ‘Cleanup Tools‘ In the drop down list, click on  the option ‘Mailbox cleanup‘ In the ‘Mailbox cleanup‘ window click on the button ‘View Mailbox Size‘. Now you can view how much space [...]

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Set password for OneNote data

Office OneNote is a popular application for storing random notes.  Data in OneNote can be organized into notebooks, each notebook can have multiple sections and each section can have multiple pages. The data stored in OneNote can be protected by using a password. This can be done at section level. Some sections can be left [...]

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The latest version of .NET Framework i.e version 4.0 can be downloaded from the below link. Download .NET framework 4.0 Web Installer The web installer is a exe file with 869 KB size. When you run the exe on your system, it will  download the required files from Microsoft portal and install them on your [...]

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In Windows computer, Outlook 2010 can be set as default email client as per the procedure explained below. The default email application is used when for all email related activities you preform on your computer. For example, if you click ‘send mail’ link in your web browser, it would automatically open a new email message [...]

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‘Downloads‘ is the folder where IE or Firefox or Google chrome or any other browser will store the downloaded files from internet.  In Windows, Downloads folder is usually located in %userprofile%Downloads.  In Windows 7 this is ‘C:usersloginnameDownloads‘. Moving Downloads from the default location would be required for the following reasons. There’s no further free space [...]

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