I'm often surprise how many people either do not know about this trick or have forgotten it.
But, if you ever shut down your computer and realized that you forgot to eject the CD or DVD from the drive, here's an old PC trick to open the disk drive without needing to power on your computer again.
This trick also works for anybody who installs Operating Systems and forgets to eject the CD or DVD after installation has completed (other wise the computer will restart and run the install program again).
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It's been estimated that over 60% of all computers have some kind of spyware installed and most of their owners are unaware! If you are tired of your PC running slow and filling your screen with those nasty pop-up then you will want to read the 10 warning signs listed below.
Afterwards check out my "action plan" and what you can do to rid yourself of your spyware infestation.
read more: Computer Problem Tips – 10 Spyware Warning Signs – Are You Infected?
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Have you ever had a need to send driving directions to someone in an email but wish you could just send a link instead of copying and pasting the entire directions and images in an email?
Well if you use Google Maps for all your driving direction needs, you now have two options to send just the link in an email very easily.
read more: How To Send Google Maps Directions As A Link In An Email
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It's bad enough when your Windows computer slow down to a crawl. But it's even worse when Windows starts to run out of memory.
But is it really running out of memory?
Low memory does not necessarily mean that you need to add more memory. Instead it could mean that an application or program is using more memory than you expected, which could be caused by buggy software, memory leaks, or a virus.
And with those types of scenarios, fixing the problem will stop your System from running out of available memory, and save you some money because you thought you needed to add more memory (RAM).
read more: How To Identify What Processes Are Eating Up Memory in Windows
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Most of the time when searching around YouTube for videos, you can easily find what you want. But since there are a ton of videos, the search results can end up being a long list.
Instead of sifting through a long list, and viewing them one by one, videos can be searched by playlists. Playlists are a great way to group related videos together, which can be later played one after another. Also, searching by playlists lets you find groups of videos that are more related to your search query.
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Have you ever changed your display resolution or moved an application window to where you could no longer grab the top of the window to resize it?
Or maybe you use dual monitors with a laptop and undock it, only to forget to move the window (or windows) back to the primary desktop, but you can still see the application in the taskbar and can't do anything with it?
If so, there is an easy trick that will bail you out and let you bring windows back on screen with out giving up and rebooting your PC.
read more: How To Move Windows That Are Off Screen Back On The Desktop In Windows
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Here's a quick Firefox tip.
Have you ever accessed a web page and notice that the content is the same on the page as a day or two ago? Or maybe you manage a website or are a blogger and need to test a change that you just made, but you don't want to go through the hassle of clearing Firefox's entire cache each time just to reload the page without accessing it in it's cache directory?
Instead, you can use one of Firefox's keyboard shortcut to to bypass checking the cache and force it to reload the page as if you never visited the site in the past.
Just press CTRL + F5 on your keyboard to have Firefox override the cache and reload the page.
By doing so you can quickly see any updates to a web page, but still benefit from having your cache contents available when browsing the Net.
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With many people adding a wireless network in their homes, it's not uncommon that your laptop or desktop will have multiple network adapters. For laptop owners, it's a must that you have both, a wireless and a regular network adapter so you can truly be mobile.
And although you don't need a physical adapter, some software, such as VMWare adds virtual network adapters during installation for virtual machine access.
After a while, your System Tray becomes full of little Network icons that are identified as Wireless Network Connection or Local Area Connection of which you can't make heads or tails of the connection that is actually the primary adapter is use.
Not very informative.
Instead, why not rename them to something that you can easily identify which connection is for home, work or when you are traveling?
read more: How To Rename Your Network Connections In Windows XP And Vista
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