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How to Stress Test your Graphics or Video Card

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If you are consistently getting the annoying BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) on your Windows computer, especially when playing your favorite games, this can mean two (2) things. First, the game program itself could have crashed. Second, the graphics card could have crashed or failed with the load it has with the running game software. Since there are several other factors that could have caused the BSOD that you are experiencing, you can isolate the graphics card issue by doing a stress test of your graphics or video card. During… Read More

How to setup Google DNS on your Windows computer

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This is a very common issue with internet connections: you are able to access certain websites and other sites are inaccessible; websites that you used to access before became inaccessible even though the said sites are up and running; you are getting frequest “Page cannot be displayed” error and something similar and reloading the page loads the site thereafter; and a lot more. Then you call your ISP (Internet Service Provider) and they will tell you that everything from their end is working very good so you are puzzled as… Read More

MS Outlook: How to remove published calendars to stop Outlook prompt to sign in

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There are a lot of MS Outlook users that are using calendar for their various calendaring activities. However, due to various sync problems especially when calendars are published online and accessed by multiple devices, MS Outlook can become erratic. Though these procedures were done using Outlook 2007 and 2010, they could still be applicable in the newer versions of Outlook. One major problem with MS Outlook calendars is when a Windows Security pop up appears asking you to enter your username and password. And when you attempt to sign in,… Read More

How to Easily Extract Images and other Embedded Files from DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files

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Have you ever wondered how you can easily extract the embedded images, graphs, illustrations or drawings in your MS Word document, your MS Excel workbook, or your MS PowerPoint presentation files? With embedded images, you might explore copying the image and pasting it to MS Paint and then saving each one at a time. This conventional process is tedious and time consuming. Imagine if your MS Word document has 50 embedded pictures in it. You need to copy 50 times, paste to MS Paint 50 time, and then save the… Read More

How to Create or Add Shortcuts to “My Computer” Window

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When you are using Windows 7 or Vista, you might notice that when you open your Explorer window by going to Start => Computer, the explorer window shows shortcut icons for selected programs. By shortcuts, I mean program launchers – icons that launch the programs when double clicked. These programs actually manage their entry to the “Network location” shortcuts during installation. But if you want to add shortcuts to your comonly used programs in this location of the “Computer” window, you can do it manually. The steps are described below:… Read More

How to easily access Multiple Gmail Accounts using a Web Browser

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One of the most widely used email accounts today is the free Gmail account. It is not just because it is free, Gmail also offers several features that will make your email life comfortable. As a matter of fact, one person can sign up for multiple free Gmail accounts that can be used for various purposes like casual or personal mailing, business mailing, and others. Having multiple Gmail accounts has no problem if you are accessing Gmail using an email program like MS Outlook, Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird. However,… Read More

Microsoft Word: Printing extra page showing Filename, Directory, Template & other stuffs

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If you are having trouble printing your MS Word document because there is always an extra page printing last, the page which contains text information about the Filename, Directory, Template and other related information, the problem is not with your printer, not with your printer settings or the document being printed. The problem is in your MS Word settings itself. The screen shot below is an example of an extra page that is printed by MS Word each time you print your document: If you are seeing this extra page… Read More

My Outlook.com (Hotmail) account is flooded with notifications. Is there a way to automatically delete notifications?

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Using the NEW Hotmail interface known as Outlook.com with its “Microsoft blue” theme, several cool features are worth using. Among these features is the automatic deletion of emails from a specific contact in a given period of time. This is known as the “Scheduled Cleanup”. This is specially useful if you are getting a daily emails and you don’t want to block them nor automatically archive them. Thus, you can setup a schedule to delete the emails in a “scheduled” manner. This also helps in keeping your Inbox in good… Read More

How to auto-forward your Hotmail emails to another email account

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If you have multiple email accounts, managing them is tricky and critical. It is tricky because you need to manage these email accounts, read their mails and respond to them and this is tedious if you have several email accounts with various sets of contacts. It is critical because it is easy to forget the passwords of these accounts and writing your passwords in a sheet of paper to keep track of your passwords is not a safe practice as well as using a single or the same password for… Read More