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For Windows users (pre-Vista), IE6 (Microsoft Internet Explorer) is nothing but an imbecile. A browser that seems to crash on any website that demands a little bit more than normal surfing, GMail doesn’t even work fully in IE6, facebook makes it hang, and virus loves to attach itself to it. For web developers, IE6 is [...]

I don’t know if you guys face this problem. Under a certain network setup my Windows Live Messenger (version 2009, the latest at the point of this post) refuses to connect and keep on saying there was a problem connecting, and give me the error code 8100030F. I checked out on Windows Live Help Site [...]

Note: Videos now updated! They are now in HD! Windows 7 beta have been released to the public for a few weeks now (officially that is). Today I would like to share some of the cute (I call it cute because I find it entertaining) and potentially useful tricks that you can do with Windows [...]

Often, I find myself making new contacts, and throughout the discussion, we might be deciding to exchange music, attempting to listen to new genre of tunes and potentially discover something that I like. However it gets quite troublesome when the other party goes like “Hey tell me what you have in your music folder?” and [...]

Some of us might be turning off the system sounds in Windows XP/Vista purely due to annoyance. Some change it to a different one. Most don’t bother about it. But there are some creative individuals who used these system sounds and make some songs out of it. Check it out: Music using ONLY sounds from [...]

In my previous guide – How To: Synchronize Your Folders with SyncToy 2.0! (Part 1), I have detailed on how to use Microsoft SyncToy 2.0 to set up folder pairs that you want to backup/copy/synchronize. In this second part, I will guide you on how to schedule this task to be run automatically. Note: This [...]

Have you ever: Wished you could copy someone’s shared folder over to your PC so you can own everything that he shares, and then always copy the latest content that he has? Wished that you backup that very important folder into some other PC so that you don’t have to feel very suicidal when your [...]

There are two ways to resize the desktop icon in Windows Vista. One of the ways is to use one of the three defined sizes: Right-click on any blank space in your Desktop, and choose “View“, then pick one of the three “Large“, “Medium” or “Classic” size (they correspond to 80px, 48px and 32px respectively). [...]