If you are one those firefox users who want to clean all the traces of your browsing history, then let me tell you there is very simple way to do it with firefox itself without any extension.
here is how you can automate the cleaning of your browsing history and cookies..
1. Open Firefox
2. go to File Menu >> Tools >> Options , click on privacy tab
3. check the option which says: Always clear my data when I close firefox (as shown in the image below)
It happens some time when you lost the password for a database microsoft access file.
As file is password protected so it will not open up without the correct password entered, in order to solve the problem you can simply use a free password revealing utility by nirsoft.net
It’s called Access PassView, the only limitation with this program is that it works for every password-protected mdb file that created with Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/XP.
I have already published one post on How to fix slow opening of my computer and delayed contents display here.
There are still some issues like connected network drives when you use office at your work place.
Like in my office when I login at my system at my work place, according to the user policy every user is connected to the network drives at the server location.
These connection to the network drives make my computer more slow at the time of opening.
Let see how can you disconnect network drives.
If you have ever downloaded any of the google products like picasa ,google screen saver etc, you may have googleupdater.exe running as a process in your system right now.
You can check by pressing "alt+ctrl+del" to open task manager and click the process tab.
What is googleupdater.exe?
GoogleUpdater.exe is a process which belongs to the Google.com’s range of Internet search facilities provided. This program is a non-essential , can be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.
Do you know the fastest way to open a file location of any desktop shortcut? i.e the directory where that file is located.
The most simple method to do this is to right click on the shortcut and then select properties and click the open file location button.
But if you have noticed in vista this feature now comes integrated with windows vista itself(as shown in the image below).
If you have used vista, you may have seen option to eject the cd drives on the right click menu on the cd drive.
This feature of automatically eject the cd drives is a part of windows vista but not provided with windows XP, but this option can be enabled in windows XP using a simple freeware software called Eject CD, Download it from here.
What is Eject CD?
Eject CD is a useful, free and easy to use software. It helps you easily eject and insert the cd/dvd-rom drivers just by using the keyboard shortcuts or your mouse.
After windows restart or even after windows explorer quick launch items got arranged in a alphabetically and also resizes to the default.
According to the default settings of windows it does not save the settings when you customize the quick launch items ,it does not save the quick launch items location and its size also.
This issue of quick launch items location changed and resize applies to both windows XP and windows Vista
But this can be easily resolved by a registry fix.
I have become more addictive using gmail these days specially because we have to reply to users who send their computer problems on TroubleFixers
While handling these large number of email, I was just trying to get to know quick and easy to remember shortcuts for gmail. So, I google for gmail keyboard shotcuts and got landed to a page here
But after seeing these shortcuts I was even worried how could any one remember all of them, I filtered out some easy to remember shortcuts.