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Disable ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ Balloon Popup Notification in Windows

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed to receive more such tips and tricks. Thanks for visiting!If you’re frequently interrupted by warnings and notifications coming from the system tray on Windows XP when you insert a new USB disk drive, you can easily disable it.

How to restore missing USBscan.sys in Windows XP?

Recently, I was trying to install drivers for my new digital camera, but I had a few problems. The installer requested the Windows XP SP 2 CD because a driver file, usbscan.sys was missing. I had actually lost the XP SP2 CD. The installer requested the XP SP 2 CD repeatedly that I had to [...]

Is the ‘Send To’ Menu opening up too slow in Windows?

Everytime you right click and select the ‘Send To’ menu it takes ages to load. If the Send To menu is opening up slow when you right click on icons or files, it’s time you fix things right.
Here’s how you can make a slow-loading Send To menu load fast in Windows.

Best Software Tools for the Family Tech Support Guy

Most of you reading this have encountered people asking you solve problems on their computers - more than once. You’re an expert in their eyes, and they want you to solve the problems they’re facing with their PCs. They might be your family members, your colleagues or whatever.

How to update the firmware of your Nokia mobile phone?

Got a Nokia mobile phone? It’s important that you update the mobile phone’s firmware once in a while. Firmware is actually the software that keeps things on your Nokia mobile phone running.
There are a lot of benefits of upgrading your phone’s firmware. You may get functional enhancements, bug fixes etc. Some issues that you might [...]