If you’ve installed the latest version of FlashGet v1.8 Beta 1, you’ll notice that it can support download torrent files which is great news to all torrent downloaders! However, because it’s still in Beta, I wouldn’t want to download torrent files using FlashGet. I prefer to use the smallest torrent client which is µTorrent. Problem is, when I installed FlasGet 1.8 Beta 1, it overwrites the default file opener or handler association for .torrent files with FlashGet. I checked the options on FlashGet and found a box where I can uncheck to disassociate FlashGet with .torrent file. After unchecking the box, weirdly FlashGet will again overwrite the default .torrent file association to FlashGet even though I’ve disabled it.

If you’ve encountered this problem, read on for a fix on how to stop FlashGet from overwriting your default .torrent association.
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One of my old friend contacted me today and asked me to help him out with his computer virus problems. I checked his computer and he has Symantec Antivirus client installed but there were no Symantec Antivirus server at home. If the server is not around, the client wouldn’t get virus definitions update at all and it’s meaningless to have an outdated antivirus running at background. So I thought of uninstalling the Symantec Antivirus client.

I went to Control Panel and ran Add or Remove Programs. Found Symantec Antivirus Client and I clicked on the Remove button. The progress bar ran for a while and a dialog box pop out asking for password to continue the uninstallation.

I asked my friend and he didn’t know anything about it! I couldn’t install any other type of antivirus IF i do not remove the Symantec Antivirus client first. Searched around and found the default password to uninstall Symantec Antivirus client and also a way to bypass the password.
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When your computer starts, the BIOS attempts to find the primary hard drive’s active partition to read the first sector for the MBR (Master Boot Record), it uses that info to load the rest of the OS. For Windows NT4/2k/XP the NTLDR (New Technology Loader) takes it from there. If you get the “NTLDR is missing, press any key to restart” what’s most likely going on is the BIOS either didn’t look for the right drive, didn’t find the right partition, it wasn’t active, didn’t find the MBR, or the MBR didn’t list NTLDR in the right place, or the location of NTLDR changed.

Here’s how to fix “NTLDR is Missing. Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart” error and get back into Windows.

“This solution worked for me and was developed by Miles Comer at http://ntldrismissing.com/, visit that site for the most up-to-date information, and following is a copy of that websites data:
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Previously I’ve shared a website that is able to easily resize your pictures or images. Here’s another website that is also able to do the same thing except this new site has extra 2 special features! Always better to have more than 1 way to do anything in case either one of site has problems.
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ActiveSync… that wonderful Microsoft program for synchronizing data between your PDA and PC. It loads itself automatically, syncs your PDA with your PC, then sits there, patiently waiting to synchronize any piece of data that you change. What if I only need to charge my PDA but not synchronize my data? It means ActiveSync is sitting around in memory using up valuable resources. Even more annoying is the fact that if you try to remove the registry entry that automatically loads ActiveSync, it very kindly adds it again (as long as it’s running) meaning it always stays open. So I need to kill off wcescomm.exe process from Windows Task Manager if I don’t want to sync my data.

Here’s an easier alternative method on how to disable ActiveSync from synchronizing.
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I have a lot of files and icons on my desktop and it’s filling up nearly 75% of my desktop space. Even though it’s quite messy but I remembered where I placed the icons and files that I always use because I never move them around. Yesterday I booted my computer into Safe Mode and the screen automatically changes to a bigger resolution. When I booted back to normal Windows, all my files and icons on my desktop automatically reshuffled! It took me sometime to rearrange the icons and files back to the place where it used to be. Here’s how I solve this problem in case next time my icons and files gets reshuffled without my knowledge.
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