How to recover corrupted PowerPoint file using TEMP folder?

Today tip will help you to recover the unreadable and corrupted file of Microsoft PowerPoint. Normally PowerPoint open files can become corrupted when you are trying to save it or if you were working on it and your PowerPoint application or windows crashed due to power failure. Windows saves a duplicate copy of working file as a temporary version. There is no need to use any third party software to manage these types of corrupted...

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8 Tips for Safer Online Shopping

The holiday season is upon us, and now more than ever that means shopping on the Internet. This past Black Friday saw $595 million in online sales, an 11 percent increase compared to Black Friday 2008, according to online market tracker comScore.But with the comfort and convenience of buying presents from your couch comes with security risks that even the most vigilant shopper can take for granted.The browser used to be just a place to access Web pages, but as more people makes financial transactions and store personal data there, the security...

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Intel Core i9: Six Cores Of Speed

Intel's Core i9 chips won't hit the market for a few more months, but that hasn't stopped Polish site PCLab from putting the new 32-nanometer processor through its paces in a recent series of benchmark tests.While testing the pre-release 2.8 GHz Gulftown chip, PCLab found a significant speed increase with certain applications. According to their report, certain resource-intensive tasks, such as editing video or 3D modelling, perform up to 50% faster...

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Torrent Giant Mininova Forced to Go Legit

Mininova, one of the largest peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing sites next to The Pirate Bay, has now removed most of its links to copyrighted content. The site complied with a Dutch court ruling from August. Mininova has said it is considering appealing that ruling. Netherlands-based Mininova has risen in recent months as one of the most popular torrent sites on the Internet, alongside The Pirate Bay, which is still maintaining a strong presence despite fines and threats to close down the site. But Mininova had to comply with a court ruling from...

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Google Unveils Chrome OS; Tech World Yawns

Earlier this week, Google gave the world a first look at the Chrome OS. The press event confirmed what was suspected when Google announced it was working on a netbook operating system four months ago -- it would emphasize speed and simplicity. As the tech world tests versions of the operating system that were compiled from Google's source code it is looking like the project's priorities may be weaknesses.Chromium OS is simple; so simple that most...

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50 expert tips to make your PC faster

The road to a faster PC starts by properly optimizing your hardware. While some of these procedures can be risky, they can also prove very effective, often delivering direct and noticeable performance gains in every area of your system.1. Update the BIOSUpgrading your PC's BIOS, or firmware in other devices like the router, could be a quick way to improve performance, fix bugs and even add new features. Look for the current BIOS version number on...

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Microsoft Bans Million Users from Xbox Live

Microsoft has banned as many as one million users who hacked their Xbox 360 consoles to play pirated games from the company's Xbox Live service in a bid to counter piracy. The move triggered an avalanche of cheap "chipped" Xbox 360 consoles for sale on Craigslist and a public outcry from users is expected. The ban from the Xbox Live service is reported to affect anywhere between 600,000 to one million Xbox 360 users who altered their console in...

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How to Speed Up Your SATA Hard Disk

Windows Vista is featured with SATA support, but for your information the facilities is not 100% work.You need to do some click here and there to make it work fully.First open device manager, by just simply type device in search and enter.Click on Disk drives and right click on ur hard disk then choose properties.After that go to policies tab, and choose for optimizng for performance.Hopefully it can increase your hard drive speed.It's also work for USB disk.Happy tweaking.....

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Green Computing: The Good And The Bad

It's becoming increasingly easier to make your PC setup more eco-friendly, thanks to a wide range of both software and hardware solutions available to help you go green.The green-computing movement, which begin with the Energy Star program back in 1992, strives to ensure that the computer industry adopts various environmentally sustainable practices, such as creating more environmentally sound products and ensuring that those products' manufacturing...

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Microsoft Launches New Version of MSN

Microsoft plans to start rolling out a redesigned MSN.com on Wednesday in the U.S., the first major update for the page in more than 10 years. Frequent visitors to the site will immediately notice one major change: The new page has only half the number of links as the old one. That's a sharp departure from the previous design, which featured around 40 links on just the top third of the page. The site has also dropped the trademark blue background for a simpler white page. The new design aims to address user feedback and complaints, said Erik Jorgenson,...

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Java, BlackBerry Desktop Get Security Bug Fixes

Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products.The patches were issued separately on Tuesday, with Sun releasing version 6 Update 17 of its Java Runtime Environment and BlackBerry updating its BlackBerry Desktop Software, used to sync data between the BlackBerry and a PC. Both updates include fixes for critical security bugs that could be abused by attackers to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer, although none of the flaws appear to have been publicly known before Tuesday....

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Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?

Finally, the World Wide Web will live up to its name. The decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that Web sites written in Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and other non-ASCII character sets will be able to have their Internet domain names displayed in their own languages truly makes the Web a global worldwide network. For the past 40 years (the Internet turned 40 this week) the Internet and the Web have been the exclusive...

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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Distrowatch: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntuHomepage: http://www.ubuntu.com/Wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/index.html (Currently not implemented as still in Alpha stage)Forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/Download Location: Torrent – http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-4/karmic-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent This release is being tested on a laptop:eMachinesAMD Mobile Athlon 64bit 3000+ (1.8Gb)1Gb RAMAti Mobility Radeon...

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Get the Most Out of Black Friday Bargains

The words "Black Friday"--referring to the big shopping day that comes right after Thanksgiving--can trigger different emotions in people: excitement, fear, anxiety, or just plain indifference. But with our shopping tips and some planning, this year's bargain bonanza should be a breeze. Prepare Your Shopping ListFirst, you need to know what to look for. According to Dealnews.com's CEO Dan de Grandpre, this year's best deals will be found on low-end netbooks, 15- or 16-inch laptops, Blu-ray players, HDTVs of various sizes, external hard drives,...

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Might Google Overdo?

As Google Inc.'s earnings and optimism continue to rise, analysts are cautioning the Internet giant to beware of taking costly missteps with its bankroll and its focus.Google late last week reported that its third-quarter profit was the company's best since its founding 11 years ago. And unlike some other major tech companies, the dismal economy didn't prevent revenue growth, as sales increased by 7% from the same period last year.With those positive numbers came news that Google plans to hire a few thousand people and to spend some of its capital...

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A Game in the Life of Windows 7

Back from the store on a storm-drizzled thursday , i'm installing the 64-bit versions of the windows 7 domestic premium upgrade as i conformation this--not without a sense of irony--on a macbook pro running snow leopard. i've had the windows 7 disentangle candidate on my desktop (build 7100) since last may. i've been using this latest-gen 15-inch macbook pro for the past month. evenly it goes for those of us who gauge our geek-fluency in proportion to our collection of computer genotypes.Despite the sense one has of déjà vu watching the installer...

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How to Upgrade From XP to Windows 7

You had good understanding to stick with xp and skip the vista experience completely.felonious but now that the folks at microsoft hold created a new operating system that's worth moving to , felonious they haven't made the upgrade easy , felonious because you hold to perform a clean install of the os.felonious here are the issues you need to be conscious of , felonious and how to handle them.felonious then read the main article , felonious "how to upgrade to windows 7" for supplementary data on the process. Hardware: your hardware can not be up...

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