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How to Remove Duplicate File – The Best Duplicate File Cleaner

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Are you annoyed by the useless duplicate files on your computer hard disk? For a computer which has been used for a long time, it is unavoidable to have duplicate file inside that occupy a lot of disk space. If you have a good habit of organizing computer data systematically, duplicate file may not be a problem for you, but if not, and you seldom clean up your computer, duplicate file could be a big headache for you. The real problem is, to manually remove duplicate file is quite a heavy and complicated job, most computer user choose to ignore these files, however, this could only end up bad for their computer. If you don’t want your computer get messed up by duplicate files, you’d better get started now to clean them up.

As I mentioned, it is not wise to manually delete duplicate file if there is too many of them, it is time consuming as there are so many file type for you to sort out, and also it is risk involved, you may accidentally deleted useful or the original file. I aware that there are many related programs available that could help with the duplicate file removal, but which one can bring me more conveniences? As I tested a few popular brand by my own, I found DuplicateCure works the best for me. Here I’ll show you how to use this excellent tool to scan and remove duplicate files from your computer quick and easy. If you are having the same duplicate file trouble as I did, I believe the below simple instruction will definitely help you out. Continue reading →

June 19, 2013 How-to-Guides

FBI Moneypak Virus Removal Instruction

If your computer has been infected by the FBI Moneypak Virus, you have to remove it immediately. Because this PC threat would bring big trouble to your computer system and steal your important data. FBI Moneypak Virus is already reported as a dangerous ransomware from notorious Ukash virus family. Most of the computer users would believe that this Anti-Piracy Warning is from the real Federal Bureau of Investigation when they received the message on their PC screen. From the warning message, you can see that your computer has been locked by the FBI because of your violation of the local laws and policy. Actually, this warning message is dubious and was created by malware authors to deceive computer users worldwide. If you follow the instructions displayed by the fake notification and accomplish the payment then you would lose your money absolutely.

To remove this malware, PC users are forking over between $100 and $200. Most of the users choose to believe the FBI notification because it looks quite authentic and genuine for many reasons: Continue reading →

June 9, 2013 Uncategorized

More Tweaks to Maximize Your PC Speed

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By doing what’s mentioned in my previous post, I believe you have already made significant improvement on your PC speed, I would like to tell you that, it is not all, there are still several tweaks you can make to speed up your PC performance further. Here I’m going to introduce them to you one by one, some of them may sounds or looks advance, but take it easy, if you can follow the instruction here strictly here will be no difficulty for you to accomplish them. Continue reading →

May 8, 2013 How-to-Guides

Disk Antivirus Professional Removal Tips from YooSecurity

Disk Antivirus Professional is the name of a fake antivirus program which always show you bogus notification telling you your computer has been infected by different malware. If you want to remove the PC threats with the Disk Antivirus Professional, you have to purchase the full version of it otherwise this program woule keep showing you the fake message. In reality none of security threats that are detected by this program exist on one’s PC – this bogus software creates random files on user’s computer and then identifies them as being Trojans, malware and viruses. The Disk Antivirus Professional Virus infects a computer when you download an infectious file that contains this virus. The infectious file may have been downloaded onto your computer without your permission. Many times a malicious website contains the virus and if you visit it you are instantly infected. Therefore, it is very necessary for you to remove Disk Antivirus Professional immediately.

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May 3, 2013 Uncategorized

Two Extra Tips on Speed Up PC by Optimizing Windows Appearance Settings

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Remove search bars in desktop

Desktop search bars usually comes with preinstalled features like MSN Desktop, Google Desktop, these desktop search bar may not be useful for everyone, if you seldom use them or feel like won’t use them anymore, removing them will save a bit of your drive space and ram usage thus speed up the computer in a certain degree. Well if you use these search bar a lot, there will be no need to removing them, but you’d better disable indexing. (detailed instruction please stay tuned for my following pos which will teach you how to improve system performance further and troubleshot annoying PC errors). Continue reading →

April 16, 2013 How-to-Guides

Metropolitan Police Virus Removal Instructions From YooSecurity

What is Metropolitan Police Virus? Have you ever encountered the Metropolitan Police Virus on your PC? More and more PC users have such problems that their computer has been blocked by the Metropolitan Police Virus. If your PC has been infetced with the Metropolitan Police Virus, you will find that you just can do nothing and only see the fake alert message on the PC screen. You can not download any files online, can not run the applications on your computer. You will be asked to pay money to the cyber-criminals who created this bogus virus. If you think you can release your computer form the blocking by sending the money to them then you are absolutely wrong! This can not help you unblock your PC but only lose your money. In most of the cases, the Metropolitan Police Virus will display you the fake alert like this:
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April 7, 2013 Uncategorized

Speed Up Your PC Further More by Optimizing Windows Appearance Settings (part 2)

Keep in mind that pretty looking Windows comes with cost, it is definitely not the fastest Windows, especially for a “eye candy” Windows 7 with Aero and transparency enabled. If you prefer to have a better system performance other than having a good looking Windows, you can choose a mini- malistic look Windows. Don’t know how? See the below steps: Continue reading →

March 30, 2013 How-to-Guides

Speed Up Your PC Further More by Optimizing Windows Appearance Settings (part 1)

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Most of the computer people love to decorate their computer with cool wallpapers, elaborate screensavers, or nice visual effects like Windows 7 offers. However, do you know these nice – looking thing come at a price? Wallpapers, screensavers and visual effects can occupy you a great mount of system recourse, which could probably slow down your system speed, it is extremely obvious if you install Windows 7 and setup Wallpapers, screensavers in an old computer with integrated video card. Even for a new computer, this problem still exist. If you are still unhappy about the system performance, why not disable some Windows appearance settings? The result might surprise you! Continue reading →

March 25, 2013 Computer Knowledge

How to Correctly Uninstall a Windows Application/Software/Program

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I bet you have installed many types of applications during the daily use of computer, what if some of the program does not meet your expectation even useless to you? How you gonna do with them, do you just simply leave them along in your computer let them wasting your drive space? The best solution is to uninstall these unused application/program/software from your computer, even for a new computer, you might need to uninstall some trial version programs like Norton, McAfee or other shareware, how to uninstall a program is something that a computer user should master. Here I’ll show you the correct step to uninstall an installed application/software/program in both Windows 7 and Windows XP. Continue reading →

March 14, 2013 How-to-Guides

How to manually delete Temporary Internet Files

We know that too much Temporary Internet Files may causing you troublesome system problems/errors, from previous posts you should have learnt hat disk cleanup tool can help you delete system junk file including the Temporary Internet Files, however, the disk cleanup tool make take a while to do the job, if you want to save a bit of your time, you can directly delete the Temporary Internet Files manually from your IE browser without running third party PC optimize tool and disk cleanup tool. Here is the instruction. Continue reading →

March 5, 2013 Computer Knowledge