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How to Speed Up Your Computer

By Limowreck

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Has your computer grown sluggish? Sick of waiting for your machine to catch up with you? Here's how to make your computer faster... more »

How to speed up your computer

By kiwi800321

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I think we all know what it's like to have purchased a brand new PC or laptop that runs perfectly. Then, in a few months it's not as fast and in a year it's running pretty slow, and in 2 years it's barely worth using. Let me tell you right now, ... more »

How to speed up your internet connection

By msmsmanu

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This tutorial will help you speed up your internet connection. Most of these steps are simple, tested and fully working. So, go on and enjoy the new speed of your connection..... more »

How to SPEED UP YOUR PC-EASY AND FREE!!!

By Belle5350

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YOU WILL LEARN THESE FREE, EASY, SIMPLE STEPS TO CLEAN OUT YOUR PC OR LAPTOP, AND SPEED IT UP!!!!! BEEN THERE, DONE THAT!.. more »

How to Speed Up Your Windows System Start-Up

By binarybuddy

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Does your computer take too much time to start? Tired of waiting ? Read on.... After the windows welcome screen, most computers take a lot of time to start. This time can to reduced drastically by following the following steps. Many software ... more »

How to Split Large Publications Across Multiple Disks in Publisher

By Eric Hiller

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Publisher is a great tool for creating professional publications for all your business needs. In addition to brochures, business cards and flyers, you can also create very large publications, including business plans, magazines, newsletters, ... more »

How to Split Single or Multiple Clips in Adobe Premiere Pro

By msmarymac

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When you are editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, you will often need to split your clips or cut clips in several tracks at once. When you split a clip, you create a new separate instance of the original clip as well as any clips linked to it. The new ... more »

How to Stabilize Vista and Run a Memory Test

By David Sarokin

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I'm reluctant to say this, because I've never been a big fan of Microsoft's products, but Vista is a pretty good operating system. I've not had a single serious security problem with it since installation -- no viruses, trojans, or other pesky ... more »

How to Start a Computer in Safe Mode

By MidniteWriter

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When your computer will not start normally, stalls or shuts down only after you have waited for start up, using the safe mode may be in order. Starting in safe mode may help restore your computer's functionality and pinpoint the cause of errors... more »

How to Start a Free Photoblog With Picasa

By Kyle Gibson

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Blogging can be difficult to stick with. Writing takes time many of us don’t have. If you like the concept of blogging and sharing your life with others, but don’t have the time to write about it, try a photoblog instead. Picasa, ... more »

How to Start Using BitTorrent

By eHow Computers Editor

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BitTorrent has rapidly come to prominence among downloaders because of its easy to use programs and fast download speeds. BitTorrent shares many of the best features of server-based and peer-based downloading in one simple package. File records ... more »

How to start using Moot

By howtoto

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This is an introduction to how you easily start using the location based social software - Moot. Moot is a mobile and laptop application that lets you discover your digital landscape through other users... And please let me know if any of you are ... more »

How to Start Your Computer in Safe Mode, For Windows XP

By RLRhodes

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There are times when you may want to start your computer in "safe mode". Safe mode only loads a limited set of drivers, so you may not access the internet, and your computer screen resolution will probably be coarser. Safe mode is ... more »

How to Step and Repeat in Illustrator

By eHow Computers Editor

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If you want to layout a repeating series of objects in a graphics program (bullets, stars or starbursts) the step and repeat command will simplify your task. Unfortunately for Illustrator users, Illustrator hasn't added a step-and-repeat feature ... more »

How to stop an iPod from automatically disconnecting after synch

By sheung

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Stop your iPod from synching and disconnecting immediately when you plug it into your Windows PC. Read through the whole article first to familiarize yourself with the steps before proceeding... more »

How to stop junk email

By candctroll

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While eliminating all junk email is impossible there are ways to considerably reduce the number you receive each week. Read below for 4 simple tricks to help stop junk email... more »

How to stop Mozilla Firefox from asking to remember passwords

By Hank Beasley

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By default Mozilla Firefox is set to ask you if you want it to remember various passwords as you use the internet. If you are like me you have so many online accounts that require a password that this password remembering prompt pop up becomes ... more »

How to Submit Your Website to 47 Social Bookmarking Sites At Once

By *Janet Ford

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Social bookmarking is vital to promoting any content online whether it be your website, blog, video or even article. The more social bookmarking sites you implement to work for you, the more popular your content becomes and the more traffic you ... more »

How to Subscribe to an RSS Feed Using Mail in Mac OS X

By ~L Recker

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Are you a Apple Macintosh user? Do you follow a number of web blogs and wish you could read them all in one place? With a few simple steps you can get every article delivered right to your Mail inbox!.. more »

How to Subscribe to Podcasts using iTunes 8

By Thomas Clancy

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This article shows you how to subscribe to podcasts using iTunes 8. You'll learn how to browse for podcasts that interest you and how to subscribe to them. In another article I'll show you how to manage them... more »

How to surround in warcraft 3

By biohazardpwns

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Basic techniques on surrounding hero's in warcraft 3... more »

How to Survive in a Web 2.0 World with a Web -1.0 Connection

By Miragi

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Hard as it may seem to fathom, there are still some of us rural dwellers who, due to corporate forces beyond our control, don't have access to the quite common highspeed and wireless connections that abound in more populated areas. If you have a ... more »

How to Swap Out a Hard Drive

By MidniteWriter

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A computer hard drive is a small silver box that holds all the information for Windows. It also contains the software installed on the machine. This is considered computer hardware. There are many reasons why one would want to replace or "swap ... more »

How to Swap Out a Keyboard

By MidniteWriter

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Keyboards are not brand or computer-sensitive and they are interchangeable. If you are not happy with your current setup or want to upgrade, there is nothing stopping you. There are many varieties available including different shapes, ergonomic, ... more »

How to Sync Music to a Portable Player using Windows Vista

By eHow Computers Editor

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While you cannot take your Windows Vista computer everywhere you go, you can easily synchronize music to a portable player with Windows Vista. All you need is a USB cable, a portable music player and your computer... more »