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How to retrieve stored email passwords in Mozilla Thunderbird

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Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the widely used email client today. Besides being free, it is fast, stable and reliable. However, as an email client, there are still people who want to access their emails in two ways: 1) using Thunderbird and 2) using a web browser. Using a web browser to access your email is very important for portability. Suppose that your Thunderbird is installed in your home desktop. When you are away from home, you need to use the web browser to access your emails outside Thunderbird. What… Read More

How to use INDIRECT function to create references to other Excel files

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MS Excel has a vast array of built-in functions that you can use in your formulas to manipulate your data. The main Excel function that I will demonstrate in this article is the INDIRECT function. This is a nice piece of tool to easily create references to external Excel files in your formulas. The INDIRECT worksheet function of MS Excel returns the contents of the specified reference and displays its contents. The INDIRECT worksheet function can be used to create “linked references” to other workbooks. Using the INDIRECT function, you… Read More

How to update email passwords in Mozilla Thunderbird

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Like any other email “client” or email program, Mozilla Thunderbird, which is used by several millions of users on Windows, Mac or Linux, offers remembering the passwords for your email accounts. In the recent release of Thunderbird, it stores passwords for all email servers individually for every email account like POP3, SMTP and IMAP servers.  If you have been using Thunderbird just recently of for many years already, you will notice that accessing the saved passwords for each email account is definitely not as easy as you would do in… Read More

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

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 and when to upgrade to the new Windows 10

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Microsoft already announced the estimated release date of Windows 10, its newest operating system, early last year.  And part of the said announcement was that licensed users of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 can get Windows 10 upgrade for free. Recently, Microsoft has been very busy in detailing the highlights and features of its Windows 10 OS and the various licensing packages for its release. Below are some of the important information that you need to know in order to get Windows 10 for free, or for a fee. Price and… Read More

Get Microsoft Windows 10 as a FREE upgrade!

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The leading Operating System company – Microsoft – announced Wednesday, that it will offer free upgrades to its newest Windows version, called Windows 10. The upgrade will be first implemented or made available for Windows 8.1 users. The second wave of upgrade will be for the Windows 7 users. According to Terry Myerson, Vice President for Operating Systems of Microsoft Corporation, the company will offer the free upgrade of any devices running Windows 8/8/1 to the latest stable release of Windows 10. This is only available for the first year that… Read More

Free Software to Find What Files and Folders are Taking Up Hard Drive Space

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Hard disk internals

As you are using your computer, it is either writing data or removing data from your hard disk drive. When you are writing more data to your computer hard drive, it is taking up some disk space in it. Depending on the size of files are you are storing up in your computer drive, there will come a time that you will run out of space. And what happens then? If you run out of space: What can you do then? The first best thing to do in this case… Read More