Through my years in IT support I have tried out a few different free pdf writers. The easiest one that I have used so far has been CutePDF Writer.
CutePDF works just like a regular print driver on your computer. All you need to do is select CutePDF from your printer list when you go to [...]

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MIT is currently offering a good size chunk of their course material for free on-line. Although the free on-line training material will not grant you a degree, or any sort of certificate, if you are after gaining the knowledge alone, it looks like a fantastic resource.
As of November 1, 2006 there are 1,550 courses published [...]

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After my messy experience trying to use Registry Booster to clean up my new / used laptop I had another look around to find a good (and free) utility to clean out the registry and profiles on my system.
I stumbled upon CCleaner after reading a few blogs and forums about the topic of cleaning your [...]

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I have seen some pretty massive Quick Launch Toolbars in my time servicing Windows computers. Some of them take up the entire width of the screen, and then some.
In my Windows Quick Launch Toolbar I try to keep it to only six applications. Currently those six icons are:

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Link to [...]

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I somehow managed to delete the “Show Desktop” icon from my Windows Quick Launch bar while I was configuring my new computer. I usually try to only keep six icons in the quick launch bar, and the show desktop icon is one of them.
I was hoping for an easy way to put the icon back, [...]

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I made a stupid mistake today on my new laptop and installed a registry cleaner without doing my research. The program that I installed was Registry Booster by Uniblue.
I wanted a free program to use on the new laptop, but Registry Booster is only free for 15 errors, and no more. My computer had over [...]

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