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You may have noticed that when your Windows is downloading updates and fixes, upon booting, it will not login into your account automatically. The cause of this ‘problem’ is most often the .NET Framework installation that adds an additional user account called ASPNET. If you want to check it out, you can browse to your “Control Panel > User Accounts” .

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The master password under the Opera browser protects the user sensitive informations such as user saved passwords from being copied/accessed locally. Now what happens if you forget your Opera master password? In particular, nothing bad but Opera will not fill out the username and password of sites that have been stored.

Fortunately, the master password can be reseted and the problem solved.

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I had several cases when some friends of mine had their SD card corrupted and they lost many photos. Now, I hope you’ll never have to deal with a corrupted SD card but if you do, we have a good solution for you.

PhotoRec is a digital photo recovery solution that is designed to handle multiple types of storage media. The operating system will not be a problem either, PhotoRec runs under Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Dos, Solaris and FreeBSD.

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While personally I don’t dislike Norton or any of the Symantec products, everybody knows that Norton is a resource eating application and many of its users give up on Norton in favor of other security solutions such as Kaspersky, AVG, Avira etc.

Now, Norton is a little tricky to uninstall due to the fact that it leaves many registry entries and folders intact.

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If you are a fan of the uptime command present within Linux or you are a heavy multimedia 24/7 download freak, you should know your current system up time. What is the system up time you ask? Well, shortly, the system up time shows you how long your system has been online. Surely you can brag or do contests with your friends, but we’ll keep this aspect for another time.

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I didn’t met any person that hates favicons yet, but doing a quick search on the internet, it seems not every Firefox user loves the little site icons. For those unfamiliar with the term, favicons are those small site specific icons, that appear on the left of the URL address bar.

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I’m sure many of you know how to do that, but we have received emails from different people asking how to disable Windows Messenger.

There are 2 ways to get rid of Windows Messenger, either by disabling it or by uninstalling it. For those who want to keep things intact but just toggle the on/off switch, here is how you can disable Windows Messenger:

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