Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2009

Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2009 Product Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2009 - version of the popular set of tools aimed at schoolchildren and students and includes everything needed for self-examination of complex topics and the preparation of homework. The composition of the package consisted of the following products: * The latest version of the...

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Windows 7 is Microsoft's Best Windows Yet

Microsoft’s loyal customers are finally getting the operating system they deserve with Windows 7, and it was well worth the wait. First, to provide full disclosure (as critics have requested in our previous Windows 7 write-ups) yes, I am indeed a Mac user. But until heading to college, I grew up on a steady diet of Windows. (I made the switch after a system crash that resulted...

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Combofix

Combofix is a freeware, portable application designed to scan a computer for known malware and, if found, attempt to remove it. I personally use this application very frequently in conjunction with SmitFraudFix to remove Win Antivirus 2008 and its variants. In addition to removing many different rogueware products, it also shows you a log of files that were created or modified...

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XP_Fileassoc.bat & XP_EXE_Fix.reg

I have been seeing the Facebook Password Reset Virus on a lot of computers lately and one of the things that this virus does is disables the EXE association with the computer. Basically what this means is that you cannot open .EXE files and since most of your software repair tools are going to be executable files, it makes the virus difficult to remove To get around this, I have been using two scripts that restore all of the file associations in Windows XP back to default. Once it has been run, I can then use my other virus removal applications...

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License Crawler

When reinstalling an operating system you have to search around for all the product keys for your software; a neat way to get it all in once place is with the License Crawler tool. Instead of manually searching through CD cases, emails, and instruction manuals for those keys, License Crawler searches the registry looking for anything that could be a product key. Any keys...

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SafeMSI.exe

SafeMSI.exe is a tiny, portable, freeware application designed to let you uninstall programs in safe mode. When the computer is in safe mode, the Windows Installer service isn’t started so most programs can’t be uninstalled. Since technicians do a lot of work in safe mode and being unable to uninstall is a huge bother. It is also not possible to start the service manually,...

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