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How to Crop With VirtualDub
VirtualDub is a free, light-weight video editing utility that lets you quickly chop up AVI video files and prep them for use in other applications. While VirtualDub doesn't pack an insane arsenal of video filters, transitions and post production tools, or handle nearly as many file formats as commer
How to Change Parental Controls on AOL
The Parental Controls on AOL allow the user of the master AOL screen name, the first account name created when signing up for AOL, to control and monitor the account usage of a child's screen name account. AOL's Parental Controls allow you to monitor activity, set time limits and set limits on whom
How to Retrive Internet History
One handy feature of your Internet browser is that it keeps a list of the sites you visit, called the Internet History. Many times, this information simply takes up space, but if you need to find some information on a site, and you cannot remember the site name, your history list is invaluable. Howe
How to Get to the Root of Acekard
The Acekard is a flash card adapter for the Nintendo DS. You can use it to display images, play video and music, and play backup files on your DS. The Acekard uses removable microSD cards. Since the Nintendo DS does not have a data transfer port capable of connecting to a computer, you must remove t
How to Restore Start Menu Defaults
If you use a Windows operating system, there are many changes you can make to customize the menus to fit your needs. In the Start menu, you can change the programs that are displayed as well as how the items are displayed. Conversely, you can revert back to the default Start menu settings.
How to Make a Windows 98 Emergency Boot Disk
Computer users with an old computer running Windows 98 and who worry about crashes and loss of some important files, should consider creating an emergency boot up disk. An emergency boot disk is a floppy disk that you create through your Windows 98 installation that contains enough of the system in
How to Download a 64-Bit Windows Vista
Downloading another copy of your 64-bit Vista operating system can be necessary when you have lost your original disk or it is broken. As long as you own a valid license key for Windows Vista 64-bit edition, there are no legal ramifications from downloading another copy of the operating system disk.
Installing MSN Live
MSN's Windows Live is a set of free software utilities that allow PC owners to get the most out of their Windows operating system. The software set includes four programs -- Messenger, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and Windows Live Mesh, which helps you share your media with other Windows users. The so
How to Stop the Flicker When Watching AVIs in Ubuntu
Sometimes when you watch videos, including AVIs, in Ubuntu you see a slight flickering on the screen. The effected video types differ with different hardware. The flickering is the result of limitations of the video driver in your Ubuntu configuration. Unfortunately, different video drivers will not
Why Do Posts Disappear on Facebook?
Facebook allows you to follow and respond to the exploits of friends, family and colleagues through their status updates and other posts. Sometimes, however, you may try to check a post you saw previously, only to learn that it has disappeared. If you know that no one deleted it, looking into the ot
How to Do a Fresh Installation of Windows XP
While it isn't necessary to perform a fresh installation of your Windows XP operating system to resolve an issue with a component, program or user account, there are times when a fresh installation is necessary. When vital operating system files are corrupted or erased and can't be replaced, the onl
How to Schedule a Job in Windows
You can use the Scheduled Task Wizard to schedule jobs in Microsoft Windows XP, or the Windows Task Scheduler in Windows 7 and Vista. When you schedule a job in Windows, you are programming it to open an application or document, send an email or execute a script on a certain date and at a particular
How to Get Rid of GZMROTATE.DLL
GZMROTATE.DLL is a dynamic link library, a piece of data or code that can be used by multiple programs at the same time. GZMROTATE.DLL is installed and used by several malicious programs, including Trojan.AdRotator, Adware.Begin2Search, Trojan.Adclicker and Adware-IconAds. Getting rid of the dynamic
How to Make My PC Bluetooth-Accessible
Bluetooth, the technology that allows two devices in close range to communicate, is used commonly in cell phone and wireless headset arrangements. Bluetooth can also be used, though, when you want your cell phone or printer to communicate with your computer in close range. This is helpful for sharin
How to Add a Printer to a Citrix Farm
Citrix provides you with cloud-based computing, allowing you to access the shared resources of multiple computers across a network and receive high-speed results from the Internet. This kind of computing also appears in your email applications in which multiple servers balance the load between them
How to Update the Root for XP
The root drive of your Windows XP system is the drive containing the operating system files. Updating the root drive to change the drive where XP is installed is necessary when you have installed a faster drive in your system and wish to exploit its advantages to decrease load time or when you suspe
How to Listen to Media With the Line-in Jack on a Vista Computer
The line-in jack on a PC is for the purpose of running audio from another media device into your computer so you can listen to it through your computer speakers or even record it. Many people find that when they try to listen to media on a Vista computer through the line-in jack, it doesn't work. Th
2000 Professional Registry Key Recovery
The Windows registry is a critical part of the Windows 2000 Professional operating system. The Windows registry keys are the section of the registry used to store a group of values for desktop preferences and hardware settings. If you accidentally delete one of these keys, you can restore it from a
How to Remove Conduits From ActiveSync
Microsoft ActiveSync is the software application utilized to synchronize Windows Mobile devices with a Windows-based computer. Games and applications that connect to the Internet may set preset conduits within the HotSync Manager for ActiveSync. HotSync conduits, or connections preset to auto-connec
How to Clear a Yahoo! Address Bar
The Yahoo! Toolbar offers a search feature in addition to a plethora of other features, including email, weather updates and news. The search feature allows users to type in anything they wish to search for, and the results show up on the Yahoo! search engine. Clearing the history of the search bar