Windows 7 is Microsoft’s love child and our favorite Windows OS. However, there are some bugging functions that need to be disabled within Windows 7 and one of them is its hibernate function. This can be acomplished very easy following these steps:
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For many of us, Google is just a search engine where you type a keyword and a bunch of search results are fed to you. In fact, Google is much more powerful than that, allowing you to refine, customize and use its search powers beyond your imagination. In this article, I will show you how to download free music via Google, using the -inurl operator.
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Mozilla’s Firefox is probably the most used and abused browser worldwide. Why? Because it’s the most customizable browser, allowing developers to create very useful plugins and extensions, that enhance the browser to a whole new level. What many Firefox users don’t know is that the browser has many of its settings hidden via its menu, but only accessible via the about:config command.
Rootkits were and still are a pain in the behind for many of us. A rookit is basically a piece of maliciouos software that allows an attacker to do stuff, bad stuff with your system. Fortunately there are many anti-rootkit applications out there, detectors and removers. Gmer is a nifty little software that detects and removes rootkits.
It scans for:
- hidden processes
- hidden threads
- hidden modules
- hidden services
- hidden files
- hidden Alternate Data Streams
- hidden registry keys
- drivers hooking SSDT
- drivers hooking IDT
- drivers hooking IRP calls
- inline hooks
You can give Gmer a test try, it doesn’t load as resident and eats almost no memory. For instructions, features and changelogs, please visit the developer’s website.
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After Pirate Bay turned legal, the dutch Mininova decided the go the same path and turn legal. Pirates are crying all over the net, families are disbanded, shots fired in the suburbs, we are witnessing the end of the world folks! Mininova was the Black Beard of the torrent world, providing loot for the pirates roaming all over the internet. The Mininova case went to court in June and after a short while the verdict was announced. Removal of all copyright infringement material or face a small fine of 5 million eur.
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Well, that’s a very good idea if you ask me. The internet is full of music streaming resources, based on artist, genres or other common tags. How about listening to music based on your mood? Stereo Mood does exactly that, the only thing you need to choose is your mood, the playlist is auto-generated by the service.
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Device Doctor is yet another driver update scanner, that, well, updates your computer drivers within some mouse clicks. What made us write about this, is that, as you probably figured it out, it’s completely free. The advantages of a driver updating software are obvious, keeping your computer updated at all times, with the latest driver releases, directly from the application. Of course, there are some drawbacks to any automated task, older drivers are not always found or some incorrect versions are slipped here and there, but overall, a driver update scanner is strongly recommended.
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NoRedirect is a Firefox/SeaMonkey extension that lets the user take control of HTTP redirects. It can be used to interdict an ISP’s DNS search redirection hijacks, preview/screen “shortened” URLs, stop the annoying redirection of “smart” error pages, etc. Shortly, the NoRedirect Firefox Extension is a very helpful FF extension, grating the user some control over many of those “spamy” redirects.
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