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How to Recover or Restore a Deleted File or Folder in Windows 7

March 25th, 2012 · No Comments

The other day I was cleaning up my desktop and I erased an important folder containing stuff I needed. Luckily, Win7 has the ability to restore previous versions of the folder. I also tried using the “System Restore” option, but it wasn’t able to restore the deleted folder. So what  I’m about to describe is […]

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Tags: Computers · Software

Hp officejet 4500 wireless – incomplete or blank prints problem

November 15th, 2011 · No Comments

I’ve noticed my printer having trouble with large files, especially long word documents. It would print pages with paragraphs missing or some other parts missing, while it did print short documents ok. My guess was that there was a spool problem or communication problem. What’s stranger, is that documents printed in best quality (instead of […]

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Tags: Computers · DIY (do it yourself) · Software

VirtualDub video editor tips

April 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

VirtualDub is a cool and free program for video editing. It is especially useful if you need to crop or remove certain frames or part of the clip, whether it’s in the beginning, middle or end. The big advantage of this tool is that it enables you to save the edited movie in the same […]

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Tags: Music · Software · Video

Convert VHS/VHS-C cassette tapes to digital media

January 24th, 2010 · No Comments

If you got some memories on VHS or VHS-C tapes, you may well want to convert them to digital media -  video files of some type, from AVI,MPEG, or DVD. You may want to do that for a few reasons: most importantly VHS tapes loose quality as time goes by. They are vulnerable to heat, […]

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Tags: How To · Music · Software · Video

BAD_POOL_CALLER blue screen, Windows error message

September 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Whats the last thing you want to see on your Windows operated computer? the blue screen. Sorry to say, but that should almost certainly happen to every one who uses Windows,  at some point or the other,  as it happened to me a few days ago. I got a blue screen with the error message: […]

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Tags: Computers · Software