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How to Configure Windows Firewall on Windows 7

January 11, 2010 Leave a comment

1. Click the Start button to view the Start Menu and then choose the Control Panel option.

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How to Install Photoshop CS3 on Vista

January 5, 2010 Leave a comment

Prior to Installation
Step1
Open the Vista Start menu, then click on the “Search” window. Type “cmd” into the search panel in order to locate the command prompt utility.

Step2
Right-click on the command prompt icon. Select “Run As Administrator” from the context menu that opens. Click “Continue” if prompted as to whether or not you wish to run the application with elevated privileges. This will launch the command prompt with administrator rights.

Step3
Type “regsvr32 JScript.dll” into the command prompt and press the “Enter” key.
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How to Clean Up Cookies and Remove Temporary Files in Windows XP

January 5, 2010 Leave a comment

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In this tip we will show you how to remove cookies and temporary files that you won’t need anymore and speed up your Windows and free up some additional space.

What are Cookies? They are a text file that stores on your computer anytime you visit a site and they
track you do. This could slow your computers, because everytime you access a site, it takes time to download them.

What are Temporary Files? Temp Files are all the files or folders installed, opened or used by
administrator. This could take a lot of space, and is recommended to delete them.

Note: System Volume Information and Temp Files are the most affected by viruses and spyware. It is
recommended to have a good AntiVirus or a good AntiSpyware.

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How to Install AVG Antivirus Free on Windows

January 5, 2010 Leave a comment

This article will cover a normal ( default ) installation of AVG Antivirus Free Edition, version 8.5 on Windows XP and Vista. We will also show you how to update AVG Antivirus Free Edition or how you can perform a full system scan. Before anything else, in case that you don’t have the antivirus software, you can download AVG Antivirus Free Edition from here. So, let’s start with the first thing that we will see after we have our antivirus copy. Navigate to where you downloaded the antivirus program and make sure to open it. The program should look like in this picture :

AVG Antivirus Free Edition software copy

Please click on the program and you should see another window that will start extracting AVG Antivirus files needed to start the installation wizard.

AVG Antivirus started to extract necessary files for installation process

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How to install an FTP server on Windows XP

January 5, 2010 Leave a comment

FTP is the file transfer protocol. Anyone with an FTP client application (such as Internet Explorer, CuteFTP, WS-FTP and others) can connect to your FTP server. Here’s how you install it:

Step 1: Log in as a member of the Administrators group on your Windows XP computer.

Step 2: Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

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How to Install IIS on Windows 7 or Vista

January 5, 2010 Leave a comment

If you are a developer using ASP.NET, one of the first things you’ll want to install on Windows 7 or Vista is IIS (internet information server). Keep in mind that your version of Windows may not come with IIS. I’m using Windows 7 Ultimate edition.

First, go to Control Panel, and then click on Programs. You’ll see a link for “Turn Windows features on or off”

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How to Install Apache Web Server on Windows

January 5, 2010 Leave a comment

Step-by-step to install Apache http Server

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How to Install Windows 7

December 21, 2009 1 comment

Installing Windows 7, first step, put the DVD in to the drive and make sure your BIOS is set to boot from the drive. Pretty standard Windows setup screen here. At this point though, is where the real excitement starts, sure it was anxiety provoking burning the DVD, but seeing it boot up, Woah, Windows 7 beta 1 here we come!


How to Install Ubuntu 9.04

December 15, 2009 Leave a comment

Requirements:

· You will need the Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop ISO image that corresponds to your hardware architecture (i386 or amd64), and which can be downloaded from here. When the download is over, burn the ISO image with your favorite CD/DVD burning application (Nero, CDBurnerXP, Roxio) on a blank CD at 8x speed.

· Reinsert or leave the CD in your CD/DVD-ROM device and reboot the computer in order to boot from the CD. Hit the F8, F11 or F12 key (depending on your BIOS) to select the CD/DVD-ROM as the boot device.

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How to Install Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu

December 15, 2009 1 comment
    Install firefox 3.5.5.tar.gz2 on Linux Ubuntu (Tested on Ubuntu 9.10)

  1. Download the new version of firefox then save in /home
  2. We must remove the old version of firefox,
    if You don’t know the command of your firefox, We can check throught terminal:

    • Open terminal,
      type : fire then press tab to get suggestion from terminal.
      e.q.:

      firefox-3.5
    • remove firefox

      sudo apt-get remove firefox-3.5
  3. Rename plugins folder to make room for the real plugin

    sudo su
    cd /home

    extract firefox to /opt

    tar -jxvf firefox-3.5.5.tar.gz2 -C /opt
    cd /opt
    mv /opt/firefox/plugins/ /opt/firefox/plugins.backup
  4. Create a symbolic link plugins for firefox

    ln -s /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/ /opt/firefox/plugins
  5. Create a new command of firefox, you can still run firefox via old shortcut of firefox

    dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/firefox
  6. Make a symbolic link to the firefox, so the launcher will launch the new version of firefox

    ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
  7. Run firefox

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    or You can run on Applications >> Internet >> Firefox Web Browser, if firefox shortcut there is no, you can create the new shortcut
    Right click >> Create Launcher
    Name : Firefox
    Command : firefox
    Comment : Web Browser of Mozilla Inc.