QuickFox Notes - A good Free Firefox Plugin to take Notes

QuickFox Notes is a free Firefox plugin that adds notes taking capabilities to Firefox. QuickFox Notes lets you easily add some notes, and store them as your bookmarks. If you keep your bookmarks synchronized across multiple computers, your notes will also get synchronized automatically.

QuickFox Notes is a very basic and simple to use Firefox plugin. It installs as an icon in your Firefox. Whenever you want to jot down something, just click on that icon. It will open a new notes window for you, and you can quickly type (or paste) your note.



All your notes are saved in a folder that is integrated with Bookmarks of Firefox. This has one big advantage. If you use utilities like Xmarks or Mozilla Weave to keep your bookmarks synchronized across multiple computers, your notes will also get synchronized automatically, without a need to do anything additional on your part.

Here is a small video tutorial that explains how to use QuickFox Notes.

QuickFox Notes lets you add only text and links to your notes. You cannot add images, or any other media. This is alright, as QuickFox is geared to be a simple notes taking application.

Quickfox Notes provides you with a tabbed interface like Notepad++. You can also search through your notes quickly using the search function.

QuickFox Notes provides you some formatting features as well. You can adjust text size, and background color of notes.

QuickFox Notes is a simple to use and makes notes taking a very easy task in Firefox.

Keep our PC up to date and alway fast

Keeping a computer Up To Date is an all inclusive phrase and it could mean updating hardware. On a system that works well, there is no need to do that.

On the other hand, keeping Windows up to date is much simpler. Make sure Windows Update is set to notify you when updates are available, (in the Control Panel). You can also set WU to download and install updates automatically, or you can set it to just notify you so you choose when to allow the updates to install.

Maintenance is involved, and one aspect many don't think about is physical maintenance, such as removing dust bunnies from around the fans and vents inside the computer. Dust will build up and that can cause overheating.

Other maintenance, software based, includes keeping your anti-virus definitions up to date and ensuring a full scan is performed once a week. In addition, since anti-virus scanners don't find all malware, download and install a couple of malware scanners so you can perform 'manual' scans once a week or so, to keep the pests out.

We often recommend the free latest versions of Malwarebytes Anti-malware and SUPERAntiSpyware.

No need to update drivers on a good working machine, but one thing you very muchly, (sorry, a unique English word), should do, is BACKUP your personal files to some external media, and then make two more backups of the same files, 3 backups in total, all on different external media. That way, if your system does fail, you don't lose all those documents, photos, music and videos you might have.

PasteCopy - A Free Powerful Clipboard manager

I usually copy and paste multiple many text, links...And I often use a powerful Clipboard Manager, especially it's free - PasteCopy.Net.  So, I want to introduce to you. Hope this app will helpful for you.

PasteCopy.NET enlarges the capacity of Windows Clipboard and lets you organize csv (Comma separated values), html, rtf (Rich Text Format), text, unicode text & images into customizable categories. The supported fomats can be previewed and copied to Windows Clipboard with a mouse-click, or by keyboard navigation. PasteCopy.NET is a portable* freeware tool, only 719 kB, and can run from a USB memory stick.

Key Features

• Portable freeware tool, only (719 kB)


• Multilingual support


• Auto- Copy & Paste Windows Clipboard


• Convert rtf to txt (-automatically)


• Convert html to rtf or txt (-automatically)


• (Auto-) resizable/hide preview


• Mouse-hover/keystroke preview


• Clipboard-content preview in SystemTray


• Export and print function

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 98/ME/2000 SP3/2003/2008/XP SP2/Vista/Windows 7
Requirements .NET 2.0 or higher.
Download:      Click Here
Download .NET 2.0

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Windows XP Remote Desktop without password

If you don't want to use password for an account but you still want to use Xp Remote Desktop? Please follow the instruction given below:

Go to  Control panel/ Administrative tools/ Local security policy/ Security options/ Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only

Set that to disable, and you will be able to remote desktop without the need for a password.

That's how i do it and never had a problem.

How to restore your windows with Norton Ghost

When many problems occur to your PC such as virus, errors of softwares, OS or your PC is very slow... The best way to resolve is restore your computer with the backup file .GHO. And this video will guild you to do it. Let's watch!

Windows 7 Tip - Change the login screen background

Make Windows Virtual Desktops with Dexpot

Today, let's make more workspaces with only one physical monitor with Dexpot. It's very convenient!
Dexpot turns your monitor into up to 20 monitor workspaces. Dexpot creates additional workspaces you can quickly switch between. Take, for example, Desktop 1 to listen to your favourite music, surf the web on Desktop 2, use Desktop 3 to handle your daily word processing or switch to Desktop 4 for a game of Solitaire.Different icons, wallpapers, start-ups, and much more can be configured for each desktop.

First, download Portable Dexpot here.
After extract, you run file dexpot.exe to start the program. Please view the video for instruction to use

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How to format Windows XP and reinstall

This explains step-by-step how to format hard drive partition using the Windows XP installation CD.

Before you continue, make sure you have backup of all documents you may need that are saved in C:, My Documents folder or your desktop.
Tip: Click the images to enlarge.

• Step 1- Installation CD Insert your Windows XP installation disc into your CD or DVD drive.

 

• Step 2 – Restart your computer and start Windows setup using Microsoft Windows bootable XP disk


• Restart your computer. As you computer boots, a screen with message “Press any key to boot from CD..” will show up counting from 9 to 0, here you need to press any key to start the setup. Note: If your computer doesn’t display the “Press any key to boot from CD..” message (by default it should), check your motherboard manual for info where to enable the “Boot from CD” setting, after you enable “Boot from CD” option from your BIOS, the message will show.


• Step 3 – System LoadingAfter you enter the setup, the CD will load up a blue screen and will start loading operating system files (this make take few minutes). When it finishes, it will list a few options, “Press ENTER to set up Windows XP now” is the one we need. Click it.


• Step 4 – Accept Windows usage agreementSecond screen is “The windows usage agreement”. It should be displayed now, showing that you need to press F8 to accept the agreement. Press F8 to accept. How to format a computer


• Step 5 – Setup startIf an existing Windows XP installation is detected by the system, you are prompted to repair it. We will bypass this step


• Step 6 – Delete old partition and formatAt this point you need to select the partition where you prefer to install Windows Xp. This is where you will delete your partition and format drive C. The box in the lower half of the screen shows all your drives and the partitions that currently exist on your hard disk. Use the Up and Down Arrow keys to highlight/select your “C:” partition and press the “D” key (pic 6.1). On the next screen press the ‘L’ key (pic 6.2) to confirm that you want to delete partition “C:”, and finalize the deleting of the partition. (if you have only “Unpartitioned space” and you have no C: or D: partitions, skip this step) How to format a computer


• Step 7 – Create installation partitionNow you should be back on the screen prompted to choose where to install Windows. The box on the lower half of the screen should no longer show a partition, instead of “C:” you should see “Unpartitioned space xxxxxMB”. Select/highlight this with the arrow keys and press the “C” key to create a partition on the drive (this is where you will install windows). Now setup tells you the minimum and maximum sizes the partition can use and lets you pick the size. The default size is the maximum available, leave the default value and press Enter.


• Step 8 – Format the computer (the hard disk)This screen lets you choose the file system you prefer the drive to be formatted with. Choose NTFS “Quick” (recommended because NTFS is faster and more secure). Use the arrow keys to select and hit Enter. How to format a computer


• Step 9 – Start Windows XP Setup Setup will start to and will auto-format the “C:” partition, and start with Windows XP installation. From here you are all set and the installation of Windows will proceed. This will take a while. The computer will reboot several times, and will continue with installation. Don’t remove the Windows XP setup CD, and don’t press a key when prompted (we already did that).

Here is the step by step instruction videos