Firefox is the second most popular browser around, so for many of you it's the browser of choice. But the main problem with Firefox is, it gets slowed down with the passage of time mainly because of the fragmentation of databases. This effects the startup time, browsing Histories load time and thus the overall speed of your favorite browser.

So, if you would like to see Firefox run a bit faster, then try SpeedyFox.
SpeedyFox is a brand new small utility that Boosts Firefox in One Click!

This add-on speeds up browsing history and allows for quicker operation with cookies. Firefox's startup is improved as well, by handling profile fragmentation that hinders it from loading quicker.

SpeedyFox has a download size of just 1.5 megabytes (MB) and after the installation it can automatically detects the Firefox's default profile and other profiles you have created. All you need to do is select the profile you want to optimize from the profile drop-down menu and hit Speed Up My Firefox! button.
The whole optimization process time of your Firefox depends on how large your databases are and it does not effect your history, bookmarks, passwords, etc.

It took me just few minutes to complete the optimization process of my default profile and now I can experience a speedier Firefox than ever before. Thanks to CrystalIDEA for this remarkable software!

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If you have a wide range of sites, then you need a means to keep up with page rank for all of them. PaRaMeter is a great tool that helps you to track Google Page Rank for a list of sites you input.

This free bulk PageRank checker is very simple to use and it tracks PR results often and notifies you of the page rank increase or decrease.

All you have to do is 'Add all URLs whose Page Rank you want to check & monitor to the PaRaMeter URL list using the corresponding field provided to input your URLs and click the Update PR button.After the Update progress is completed, you can check the Google Page Rank for the list of URLs you entered in the PR column. If there is any change in the page rank since the last update, you can check that under the Trend Column. And you if you want to export the data to a CSV file you can do it using the Project | Export to CSV menu item.

PaRaMeter can also be used:

To monitor PageRank of any web page in different Google Data Centers. It provides you the option to manually select the Google Data Centers to monitor.

To Enable the Google Data Center Selection feature, Goto Options -> Preferences... and check the box that says "Manual Google Data Center Selection" and Press OK.
To extract all URLs from a website to quickly check Page Rank of each particular web page.

You can Access it from Tool -> Extract URLs. Just Enter the Starting URL of the website, choose the depth level and click Start.
This freeware Support Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista and has a download size of just 1.3MB

Click Here To Download PaRaMeter from CleverStat

Try it yourself and submit your comments on this post.

Continue Reading >>Track & Monitor Google PageRank for a List of Sites @ PaRaMeter

Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is a post-infection removal tool that checks and removes any infection found on your computer created by specific, prevalent malicious software including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom. If the tool did manage to find any infection on your PC, it removes and also displays a status report the very next time that you start your computer describing the outcome of the scan that includes the details of the malicious software detected and removed. The tool also creates a log file named mrt.log in the %WINDIR%\debug folder.

To defend computers running Windows Operating System efficiently from the latest malicious software, Microsoft offers a new version of this Malicious Software Removal Tool every month. You can either download a copy of it manually from the Microsoft Download Center or set the Automatic Updates feature on your PC to Automatic for the newest version to automatically get delivered and installed on your computer as soon as it is released by Microsoft.

As Malicious Software Removal Tool is just a post-infection removal tool, it can never work as a replacement for an antivirus software. So, it is always recommended that you run an up-to-date antivirus software on your PC and defend your computer from all types of viruses and worms.

Download 'Malicious Software Removal Tool' from Microsoft Download Center

Continue Reading >>Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Overview

The "Remote Registry" service enables remote users to modify registry setting on your computer. By default, the "Startup type" setting for the "Remote Registry" service may be set to "Automatic” or "Manual" which is a security risk for a single user (or) notebook PC user.
So, to make sure that only users on your computer can modify the system registry disable this "Remote Registry" service.

Here is how it can be done:

1. Click Start and choose Control Panel from the Start Menu items.Note:
If you find difficulty in accessing the Control Panel in your PC,
CLICK HERE To Know the Different Ways To Access the Windows Control Panel

2. If your Control Panel is showing items in Classic View, find the icon named Administrative Tools and double click on it.

Alternatively if you are under Category View, click Performance and Maintenance and then Click Administrative Tools

3. Now double-click on Services applet which is used to start, stop and configure windows services on your PC. This open the service window listing all the windows services.
4. From the right pane of the Services Window, find the service named Remote Registry
5. Double-click the "Remote Registry" service which shows the Remote Registry Properties for your Local Computer.

Now, press the Stop button first to stop the started service and then choose Disabled from the drop down menu under 'Startup Type' and click Apply->OK.

6.Close the "Services" window and restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

That's it!! You have just disabled the "Remote Registry" service on your computer to prevent unauthorized changes to the system registry.

Hope this helps...

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Viruses & Worms are malicious computer programs that can cause damage to your computer and to the information stored on it. These big bugs can access your computer through e-mail attachments, local networks or USB drives and possess the capability to spread to the computers of your friends, family and co-workers or for that matter to any other computer you come into contact on the web or via local network. And when this spreading spree gets viral, the entire web can also be infected.

To date there are more than hundreds of thousands of known viruses and worms and new ones are created everyday by hackers, online vendors and cyber criminals. With so many threats rambling all over internet these days, chances are good that your computer will be attacked sooner or later if you don't take necessary precautions to prevent them.

Here are the basic 'Steps to Protect your PC against Viruses & Worms'

1. Turn ON the Internet Firewall.

This prevents authorized users from gaining access to you computer through the internet or a local network.

Windows XP SP3 & Windows Vista automatically provide better protection against viruses, hackers and worms with their built in Windows Firewall, pop-up blocker for IE and new windows security center.
As far as online security is concerned, Windows Vista is the best to opt for as it provides the most advanced security and management capability. But for PCs that cannot be upgraded to Windows Vista right now, Windows XP SP3 provides all necessary security updates and hot-fixes. As SP3 is cumulative, users can install SP3 on top of Windows XP SP1 or SP2 and it comes through Windows Update for a download size of just around 70 megabytes (MB).

2. Keep your computer up-to-date installing the most recent updates for your Operating System and Software programs as they become available.

It is a best practice to Automatically download and install high-priority critical updates when they are available.You can also choose the settings that notifies you as these updates become available if you don't want to automate the downloads or installations.

3. Use any up-to-date Anti-Virus Software and do check for regular updates and download them, which are essential to find the new strain of virus as they arrive on the web. Also perform full system scan at-least once a week to make sure you PC is free from virus and other malicious programs.

4. As e-mail attachments are the main source to spread these bugs on the internet, never open/download an e-mail attachment from a stranger unless you know exactly what the attachment is.

5. Scan the USB flash drives immediately after you connect it to your PC, with your updated Anti-Virus software and delete all the infected files found.

By following the above preventive measures, you can definitely defend your computer against all sought of viruses, worms and malicious software.

Hope this helps...

Continue Reading >>How To Protect Your Computer Against Viruses & Worms

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Services are nothing but application that runs in the background which typically provide features such as client/server applications, Web servers, database servers, and other server-based applications to users, both locally and across the network.

You can use Services to start, stop, pause, resume, or disable any windows service application on remote and local computers with appropriate admin privileges. You can also Set up recovery actions to take place if a service fails such as restarting the service automatically or restarting the computer etc.,

From all the Windows Services, the "Secondary Logon" service is the one that enables starting processes under alternate credentials. This allows the members of the Users group or Power Users group to run programs (*.exe), saved Microsoft Management Consoles(*.msc), shortcuts to programs and saved MMC consoles, and Control Panel items as an administrator which is generally considered as a security risk for a single user (or) notebook PC user. So, to minimize security risks to your computer it is suggested that the "Secondary Logon" service is disabled.

Follow the steps below to - Disable the "Secondary Logon" Service

1. Click Start and choose Control Panel from the Start Menu items.Note:
If you find difficulty in accessing the Control Panel in your PC,
CLICK HERE To Know the Different Ways To Access the Windows Control Panel

2. If your Control Panel is showing items in Classic View, find the icon named Administrative Tools and double click on it.

Alternatively if you are under Category View, click Performance and Maintenance and then Click Administrative Tools

3. Now double-click on Services applet which is used to start, stop and configure windows services on your PC. This open the service window listing all the windows services.
4. From the right pane of the Services Window, find the service "Secondary Logon" listed in the Name column.
5. Double-click the "Secondary Logon" service which shows the Secondary Logon Properties for your Local Computer. By default, the "Secondary Logon" service starts automatically when the system starts and the "Startup Type" setting may be set to "Automatic" or "Manual".
6. Now Stop the service by clicking Stop button and then set the "Startup Type" setting to "Disable" and Click Apply->OK.
7. Exit the "Services" window and restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

That's it!! You have successfully disabled the "Secondary Logon" Service to minimize the security risks to your computer.

Caution:
This applies only to single users (or) notebook PC users who are not connected to any other computers over the local network.

Continue Reading >>Disable the "Secondary Logon" Service to Prevent Starting Processes Under Alternate Credentials

The Control Panel is a part of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface which allows users to make settings for many Windows actions, such as changing network, keyboard, printer, regional settings, Performance & Maintenance Settings, Add/Remove Programs etc.,

Here are the Different Ways To Access the Windows "Control Panel"

1--> Click Start, Choose Control Panel from the start menu itemsIf your computer is set up in Classic Start Menu view, then click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.In some computers, Start Menu is customized to not display the Control Panel in the items list. In such a case,

2--> Click Start, Click Run, Type Control and press OK.
3--> Go to My Computer and type Control Panel in the Address bar and press Enter.

4--> Type Control Panel into the Address bar of your Internet Explorer and press enter to access the control panel instead of the Web.This is possible because of the close similarity between Internet Explorer (iexplore.exe, the web browser) and Windows Explorer (explorer.exe, the file system manager). And because of this very similarity, Internet Explorer can also be used to browse your file system besides the web and is included for free in all Windows Operating Systems.

5--> You can also access the Control Panel from Windows Command Interpreter(cmd.exe) by just typing the command Control at the command prompt and pressing enter.

Hope this helps...

Try it yourself and post in your valuable comments.

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Continue Reading >>Different Ways to Access the Windows Control Panel

Instant Messaging has become easier than ever before with a lot of IM services available and now Yahoo! has brought a new innovation in this field with its new Yahoo! Messenger for the Web.

IM for the web is the basic version of Yahoo! Messenger designed especially for the web browser which doesn't require downloading of any external applications. With this web IM service, you can stay in touch with your Yahoo! as well as Windows Live Messenger buddies from any browser you wander by.

All you have to do to access this service is go to webmessenger.yahoo.com and login with your Yahoo! ID.
Some of the interesting features of this Yahoo! Messenger for the Web include:

• Tabbed browsing which opens multiple conversations in tabs.
• Ability to search the message archive that consists of message history of all your IM with your friends.
• New message notification sound
• Ability to add Windows Live! Messenger contacts making it the first web messenger where you need only one ID to be a part of multiple IM communities.

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And if you want your experience of IMing on the web to spice it up a little more, you can go to Yahoo! Messenger for the Web - Star Wars Edition @ starwars.webmessenger.yahoo.com
For all the interactive features and looks, IM for the Web deserves a big thumbs up from its users, but I'm afraid that it has its limitation.

With Yahoo! Messenger for the Web:

• you cannot modify your image/avatar to be displayed
• you cannot modify your Stealth settings and block list
• you also won’t be able to conference, transfer files or share photos; or use webcams, Voice, IMvironments, LaunchCast Radio, PlugIns, or audibles.

These modifications and features can be accessed only using the application (the YM 'client') that’s installed on your computer.

All in all this Yahoo! Messenger for the web can be a great advantage when you are accessing internet away from your home computers having no Y!M applications installed and in the cases of which you have been using other web based IM services like meebo.

Continue Reading >>Yahoo! Messenger For The Web

From using as a greeting in net friendships to spicing up your IM conversations, these emoticons are a great help to show friends and family how you feel.

Besides the default set of emoticons provided by Yahoo! Messenger in the emoticon menu, there are some more hidden emoticons which you can send by typing their respective character combination shortcuts directly into your message.

The table below features the exhaustive list of Hidden Yahoo! messenger emoticons to surprise your friends and family.

First find the emoticon image you want to generate in the first column, then from the second column find the character combination you have to type in your message to generate that emoticon.

Emoticon	Key Combination	Description
	:o3	puppy dog eyes
	:-??	I don't know
	%-(	not listening
	:@)	pig
	3:-O	cow
	:(|)	monkey
	~:>	chicken
	@};-	rose
	%%-	good luck
	**==	US flag
	(~~)	pumpkin
	~O)	coffee
	*-:)	idea
	8-X	skull
	>:/	bring it on
	=:)	bug
	;))	hee hee
	>-)	alien
	:-@	chatter box
	:-L	frustrated
	[-O<	praying
	$-)	money eyes
	:-"	whistling
	b-(	feeling beat up
	:)>-	peace sign
	[-X	shame on you
	^:)^	not worthy
	:-j	oh go on
	(*)	star
	o->	hiro
	o=>	billy
	o-+	april
	(%)	yin yang
	:bz	bee
	\:D/	dancing

Continue Reading >>Surprise pals with Yahoo! messenger secret emoticons