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Get a Free Serial Key for Advanced SystemCare Pro

Who doesn’t like free stuff! I know you do, that’s why I’m going to give you this awesome system optimization tool - Advanced SystemCare Pro. In my personal opinion, IObit products especially the latest Advanced SystemCare PRO is my favorite and BEST system tuning software to keep my computer running like new. It provides an always-on, automated, all-in-one PC Health-care Service with anti-spyware, privacy protection, performance tune-ups, and system cleaning capabilities. This powerful and award-winning precision tool fixes stubborn errors, cleans out clutter, optimizes Internet and download speeds, ensures personal security, and maintains maximum computer performance automatically.

Here i am giving you a free serial key for Advanced SystemCare Pro Edition.

Have a great time using your Advanced SystemCare Pro.

Category: Vista and 7 Tips and Tricks! | Views: 861 | Added by: Adamsummer | Date: 2012-03-23 | Comments (0)

How to Improve Windows XP Shutdown Speed

Shorten the time it takes for your desktop to appear when you turn on your PC and make XP shut down faster as well.

In some cases computers running with Windows XP takes too much time to shutdown and

repeatedly annoy users with pop up messages asking if you really want to quit the applications. This problem is mainly due to applications that installservices that start at Windows XP boot time and then take a very long time to stop and sometimes time out whenWindows is being shut down. No matter how fast your PC shuts down, it's not fast enough. This tweak reduces the time Windows-XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it thecommand to shutdown.

How to Improve Your Computers Shutdown And Reboot Speed?

For speeding up your shutdown and reboot time in Windows XP, you need to edit some registry settings. Follow the steps as given below:

1. Go to Start then select Run

2. Type 'Regedit' and click ok

3. Find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\'

4. Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'

5. Right click and select 'Modify'

6. Change the value to '1000'

7. Click 'OK'

8. Now select 'HungAppTimeout'

9. Right click and select 'Modify'

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Category: Vista and 7 Tips and Tricks! | Views: 828 | Added by: Adamsummer | Date: 2012-03-23 | Comments (0)

How to Download Flash Videos From Any Site With Firefox

I'll make it short. I found this out on myself just by peeping around and Googling a bit.

1. Open Firefox.

2. Clear your cache.

Open Firefox and select "Tools" -> "Options", select the Advanced panel, and click on the Network tab. In the Offline Storage section, click Clear Now.

Click OK to close the Options window

3. Load the web page that contains your flash video. Make sure it streams all the way. This means you now have it in your computer's cache.

4. Open a new tab and write "about:cache" in the address bar (without the "quotes").

5. Under "Disk cache device", copy the path shown for the cache directory.

6. Paste that path in My Computer, or navigate to it however you want.

7. Order files by size.

8. The biggest file should be your video. It's going to have a weird name like 54DDEA30e01 but that's fine. This is your video.

9. Open the file with a media player that supports the format, such as VLC Player.

NOTE: Most likely, your computer won't know which software to run this file type with, so just select "open file with" option after clicking the file with the secondary mouse button, and choose VLC Player.

Category: Vista and 7 Tips and Tricks! | Views: 988 | Added by: Adamsummer | Date: 2012-03-23 | Comments (0)

How to disable Right click on Desktop?

this tweak removes the context menu that would normally appear whenthe user right clicks on the desktop or in the Explorer right results.

Previously I posted a tutorial How to disable "Turn off Computer" button on start menu. In this post i want to show you how to disable the right click functionality on desktop and explorer by using a simple registry hack. The bad thing is that people can still drag files and folders and drop them everywhere but it does provide some level of protection.

Lets start:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer withadministrative rights.

1. Go to Start > Run > type REGEDIT and hit enter. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

2. Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value with the name NoViewContextMenu (it is case sensitive), then assign number 1 in value data box.

Adding the registry tweak above will disable mouse right click for ALL users. If you only want to disable for the current logged in user, you should add the registry tweak to HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

Category: Vista and 7 Tips and Tricks! | Views: 875 | Added by: Adamsummer | Date: 2012-03-23 | Comments (0)

How To Send a Self Deleting SMS

Basically this technique is called SAFE-TEXT. It's a technique where a message destroys itself after being read. If you want to call it the Data-centric Suicide Message, that's fine too. This is a website that allows you to send such type of sms for free of cost after registering on it. But it has limitation that you can send only 10 SMS a day.

So here's the thing. With Wikileaks on one side and British libel law on the other, there's room for a tool that lets you say what needs to be said, but without it falling into the wrong hands in the process.

What it does is allow you to send an expletive-laden opinion of your boss to a co-worker, or an it's-in-the-public's-interest-to-know-this leak to your friend on the Guardian (or Wired), without it having a chance to be read by said boss, or unsaid MP.

Note: This trick should only work for British mobile network operators.

Here’s how to use it:

To register and activate, text WIRED to 83118 (charged at your standard network rate). You’ll be able to send up to 10 messages daily.
If you’re the sender, the message will show your name and number.
Write your libel-ridden hate speech and hit send.
The receiver will then be sent a text telling them they have been sent a Wired Safe Text with a link to the mobile internet site that hosts your message.
When they click through they will activate Safe Text. They will only have a few seconds to read the text (so don’t make it too long) before it self-destructs.

Category: Vista and 7 Tips and Tricks! | Views: 890 | Added by: Adamsummer | Date: 2012-03-23 | Comments (0)

top 5 photo editior for windows

Now all of you know that Photoshop is the heavyweight champ in the image-editing category, but most people don’t need such an advanced toolset for everyday image-editing tasks, and its price is near $650. In this post i'll show you some of the best free image editors that are so easy to use.

1. IrfanView - IrfanView is probably the most popular and feature packed free image viewer

for Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio formats. It has been around for many years and keeps getting better. In addition to standard image viewing, it includes many additional features including slideshow, batch conversion, image adjustment, image editing, resizing, panorama stitching, auto EXIF rotation and more. There certainly are more user-friendly and attractive image viewers, but few that offer all the functionality, and extendibility that IrfanView can provide.

2. Paint.NET - Paint.NET features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for

layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting. I am using this software and it's really great.

3. FastStone Image Viewer - FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image

browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more. FastStone Image Viewer supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA as well as digital RAW formats including CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG).

4. GIMP - GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is specifically a raster graphics editor

used to process digital graphics and photographs. It is usually the direct free replacement for Photoshop and rightly so, there are very few limitations, its very powerful, and is probably easier to use than Photoshop. With its dedicated community you can find all the help, tutorials and plugins you would ever need. All this for free!
OS : Windows ALL, Mac OS X, and SkyOS.

5. Photoscape - PhotoScape is a complete photo editing suite that

includes image browsing/viewing, photo editing, picture page printing, photo resizing and renaming, and even RAW conversion. It is a very complete package that will meet most of your digital image editing needs.