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Some Skype users are complaining that the useful “See News Feed in Skype”  greyed out and got disabled right after turning it on. This interesting feature connects Skype chat client to Facebook profiles in order to read Facebook updates such as friends posts, messages, news etc. It works in a very easy way: “Sign in to Skype and select the Facebook tab in the main window. Click “See News Feed in Skype” to connect your Skype and Facebook accounts”. However, for some reason no feeds are shown. Other times instead the Facebook button fades out and stops working without any way to see what your friends are writing on Facebook any more. Let’s see how to fix this issue in a couple of easy steps. Continue reading »

There are a lot of ways to make your hard disk (hd) and partitions invisible. Some of them require expensive software able to lock and conceal partitions, other ones ( like this article on how to hide your hard disk) only require unknown settings. In this article I will show you how to mask a particular partition of your choice thanks to a DOS command. DOS commands are quite easy to apply but they are also quite unknown since only technicians and engineers use them to bypass the classical well-known user interface majority of us  use for our daily work. Another strong point about such DOS command is that you can use it on all Windows operating systems such as Windows 7,Vista and Windows XP. Continue reading »

Windows Live Essential 2011 is a package which contains interesting  tools  for your Windows 7 or Vista. In this article I will show you how to download its offline standalone installer. As said, Windows Live Essential 2011 is nothing else than a “box” containing programs developed and distributed from Microsoft itself. The most important ones are:  Windows Live Messenger, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, Windows Live Mesh and other useful tools to make your Windows a more complete operating system. Microsoft doesn’t let its users to download the full standalone installer. This is a pity, above all when you want to install some of its tools on a computer without Internet connection. This tutorial will show you the full Web address where you will be able to download the whole package for free! Continue reading »

One of the most  interesting features in Gmail is the colored labels. Basically,  you will be able to assign special labels with different colors to different emails. This feature is especially useful when you want to organize your emails, you wish to find some of them in a quick way or you want to categorize your emails following certains custom criterias. This is not the first time Google lets Gmail users customize their Gmail accounts with colours. In fact, the huge Gmail size storage is really impressive  and it  might  be a problem for all of those users who store and “collect” a lot of emails in their accounts without deleting anything. Gmail labels is a fresh new idea that will let you recover and spot your emails in a more easy way. Continue reading »

Sometimes it might happen that you are not be able to reach your Control Panel in your Windows operating system (such as Windows 7 or Vista). That’s way Microsoft placed interesting commands in the DOS Command Prompt. In fact, the neglected DOS window is a quite resourceful place where you can gain access to a big variety of  Windows tools in case the “ordinary” path doesn’t work anymore. For examples, certain viruses and malware systematically block a lot of  Windows tools and applications from being reached through the well-known user interface. In this case such DOS commands (or shortcuts) might be quite useful to you! Let’s see how to run printers, scanners, Internet Properties and options, Security Center, Language options etc thanks to a simple commands! Continue reading »

Fecebook Questions is a very useful feature. However, a lot of users find it quite annoying. I will show you how to turn it off, hide and delete its annoying questions from your Facebook profile. However, it has to be said that Facebook Questions is a very powerful resource for a lot of Facebook users. Basically, it uses the almost unlimited collective knowledge of the more than 500 million people on Facebook to reply to your most difficult, unusual and unexpected questions. It works in a very simply way. Click the “Ask Question” button at the top of the homepage to ask a question to the Facebook community. Your question will be posted on your friends and friends’ friends Facebook profiles as well as “nearby surfing enthusiasts”. If you don’t like to reply and help unknown users, here are a couple of extensions/plugin  to delete it! Continue reading »

If you try to install a software on your Windows 7 operating system, you might get the following error message: “The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance.” Such error message is triggered when the Installer gets corrupted or when Windows Installer service has stopped working for unknown reasons.  Such issue is also available on Windows Vista and XP as well. Windows Installer is an important component which is used in all Windows operating systems to install, uninstall and support software and applications. Such a component is widely spread (also thanks to Microsoft support) in almost all software distributions as it will keep internal database of installed products consistent in Windows systems. Let’s see how to fix it! Continue reading »

Sometimes, if you start  Windows 7, Vista or XP, the system will start a Check Disk (CHKDSK) for consistency, automatically.  You won’t manage to solve such issue, if you restart the computer. No matter what you do,  Windows will keep doing and checking for consistency. Apparently, the only way to fix this behaviour is  press any key on your keyboard to abort the process. But why, does Windows operating system need to check your disk?  This  behaviour is triggered when some data or sector in your hard disk is corrupted and actually can not be recovered at all. In order to fix it,  Windows will keep doing a check disk every time you reboot the system, without any success. Let’s see how to turn off Check Disk from automatically start every time you boot Windows. Continue reading »