How To Backup/Restore Firefox Bookmarks, Web Browsing History, Extensions Or Other Add-ons When Planning To Re-Format Harddrive (OS)

You can make Firefox opens and browse as usual even after you do a fresh OS reinstallations or formatting the harddrive (where the OS were installed), no dialog box appears as you use the browser for the first time and most importantly, your bookmarks, passwords, web browsing history, extensions or other add-ons still intact and functioning.

Follow this simple guide on how to backup and restore all those important and useful items. For this, I'm going to use Windows 7 but it's all the same with other operating systems, the differences is only the file path that I'll list it later.

1. At Windows explorer > Organize > Folder and Search Options > View > tick at Show Hidden Files, Folder and Drives radio button > Apply > OK (you have to enable the hidden options because the file path that we're going to backup are hidden).


2. Go to C:/Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox copy and save the Firefox folder to removeable media or another harddrive partitions. If you open the Firefox folder, you can see all of your previous settings, add-ons, extentions etc. in it .


3. To restore the backup after you've done with reformatting, install Firefox as usual and copy/paste the backup Firefox folder into C:/Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\ , overwrite the folder if the Firefox folder already exist, make sure you've show hidden files and folder options enabled first in Folder Options.

That's it. Open Firefox and surf as usual.

Below is the location list of Firefox folder path in different Operating Systems.

Windows Vista & Windows 7	Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox
Windows 2000, XP & Server 2003	Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
Mac OS X	~/Library/Application Support/Firefox
Linux and Unix systems	~/.mozilla/firefox

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 (Service Pack 2) Official Download Links

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) final RTM version has been released by Microsoft to general public on schedule. Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 delivers major performance enhancements for Office applications such as Outlook, adds built-in native support for PDF and ODF, improves calendar reliability, fixes significant bug for charts in core Office application and many other improvements. Other than including all public updates, security updates, and hotfixes released through February 2009, SP2 also adds previously unreleased fixes that were made specifically for this service pack.

Microsoft has also published a complete list of changes in 2007 Office SP2 in 2007 Office Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx document.

Download the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B444BF18-79EA-46C6-8A81-9DB49B4AB6E5

Direct Download Link: office2007sp2-kb953195-fullfile-en-us.exe

Download Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E1203DB2-1CC9-4809-9B6E-3F232CB8899F

Direct Download Link: officelp2007sp2-kb953195-fullfile-en-us.exe

If you want to slipstream into your Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 image or disc, learn how in this tutorial.

Leaked Windows 7 Build 7100 Image May Have Been Infected With Trojan

Microsoft have warned users numerous times not to download leaked Windows 7 builds because of the possibility of modified or infected images. Users should understand the risks involved when downloading and installing leaked builds, as we continue to see an increasing amount of fake build releases.

Unfortunately, one of the first build 7100 leaked on “the bay of pirates” was modified. Many users jumped on this build right away, not realizing it was modified and infected with a trojan. The torrent was later taken down. Even if you did not download build 7100 from the suspected site, you should still always do a hash check to ensure your image was unmodified. You can check the MD5 hash of an image by using MD5Checker (download here).


The image had the following incorrect build string: Windows_7_Ultimate_x86_RC_Build_7100.4866522
This is the MD5 hash of the infected image: 2dc70d7c851d76d49ac71167141222f7
The correct hashes should be the following:

x64: 98341AF35655137966E382C4FEAA282D
x86: 8867C13330F56A93944BCD46DCD73590

If you believe you have an infected image, you should get rid of the image immediately, update your anti-virus software and do a complete scan.

If you were a victim of the infected image, it may be better to wait until May 5th when Microsoft releases Windows 7 RC for public download. Download safely.

How To Slipstream Or Intergrate Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Microsoft Office 2007 has received two service packs (Office 2007 SP1 and Office 2007 SP2) up till now. Service packs contain important stability, reliability, performance and security improvements, and include all updates released till service pack is finalized.

The integrated Office 2007 installation ISO image or disc helps save update installation time after installing Office 2007 RTM or SP1 (for SP2), and ensure that the newer SP is installed.

Microsoft Office 2007 setup program will install any new updates that found inside the Updates folder in the installation media. The updates must be in .msp file format (MSP or Windows Installer Patch) in order to be recognized during setup installation process.

Follow the steps below in order to slipstream and integrate Office 2007 SP2 into original Office 2007 RTM (or with SP1) installation files.

1. Extract and copy the contents of the Office 2007 SP1 (or RTM) image or disc to a temporary folder.

For example, C:\Office2007

2. Download and copy the Office 2007 SP2 Update file to another temporary folder.

For example, C:\Office2007SP2

3. Open a command prompt, and run the following command to retrieve and get the Office 2007 SP update MSP, (choose "run as administrator" if you use Windows Vista or Windows 7):

C:\Office2007SP2\office2007sp2-kb953195-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:C:\Office2007\Updates\

Note: The drive letters and folder names names may vary according to your own preferences.


4. Accept the Microsoft Software License Terms to start integrating the service pack to Office 2007 installation files. The process will expand several .msp files to “Updates” folder.




5. Optionally, uses disc image manipulation programs to re-create a fresh Office 2007 SP2 ISO image, or burn the Office 2007 SP2 installation files inside C:\Office2007 folder to a disc media with disk burning software.

The setup for Office 2007 will now automatically apply updates for SP2 during instalation.

Smoother And More Responsive Game Play With iobit Game Booster 3

For all PC gamers, how about try this software to increase your gaming experience, it'll boost your computer to gaming mode and you'll get a smooth and more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button.


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Game Booster gives more CPU and RAM to your games, making your games running at the peak performance.

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Game Booster prevents and avoids possible conflicts and incompatibility, by temporarily closing background processes and unnecessary Windows services.

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Game Booster does not overclock your hardware, does not change your Windows Registry and system settings. Game Booster is 100% freeware, without any virus, adware, and spyware.

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Designed for Windows 2000, Vista, XP and Windows 7.

Download iobit_game_booster.exe

Windows 7 RC Release Officially Announced

Finally Microsoft has officially announced the release schedule for Windows 7 Release Candidate.

Today Windows Team Blog has made an announcement about Windows 7 RC:

There certainly has been a lot of discussion about Windows 7 in the last few weeks. A lot of folks want to know when they can get their hands on the official RC, when we are going to RTM, and what I had for breakfast.

I’m pleased to share that the RC is on track for April 30th for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Broader, public availability will begin on May 5th.
So if you are a TechNet or MSDN subscriber, you can download Windows 7 RC on April 30.

If you are not a subscriber, no need to worry, the public release will be available on May 5.

Get Free 90 Days ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Genuine License

This promotions makes me smile non-stop, because my NOD32 license approaching expiration date and I don't have to buy a new license yet, I got free for 3 months now, the promotion came right on time.

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4. Select Jauna licence and enter the registration code that you got from the email, name, email address and click Send. (Only the registration code must be valid and the rest are not important although you should enter a valid format of email address)


5. Your 3 months username and password for ESET will be displayed. Copy and save it.

Get it before the promotion ended.

Thanks to Raymond.

Remove Office 2007 - Totally Uninstall Microsoft Office 2007

Sometimes when Microsoft Office 2007 always hangs, corrupting your files, not responding etc., and you've done everything you can to fix it, but in the end still no joy and you might think to uninstall and reinstall the program back. Unfortunately, doing so still not fix anything. Why?

As far as the problems still persist, we could say that the uninstallations not really clean everything thoroughly. Still big Microsoft Office 2007 leftovers inside your harddrive, that's why a new installations not doing any good.

RefuseToSuffer.com knows about this and they launch a program called Remove Office 2007 to help users to overcome this problem. This simple, light and of course a freeware is portable, easy to use just unzip the downloaded file, double click the icon (if you use Windows Vista or Windows 7, right click the icon, choose "run as administrator") and click GO to start the uninstallations.


Download remove_office_2007.zip

How To Fix Blank Or White Shortcut Icons On Desktop

Once in a while, the shortcut icons on the Windows desktop may suddenly been changed or became blank or ‘white paper’ icon, where supposedly the icons should be colorful and customized in style and color. It’s as if the icon for the shortcut has been removed or unassigned, and been replaced with default blank icon in white.

In order to fix the problem where shortcut icons turn to blank icon, try to refresh or rebuild the cache database for icons. There are many system management software utilities that may reset the icon cache db automatically, but here’s how to reset the icon cache db manually.

1. Go to Organize -> Folder and Search Options -> View tab, and select Show hidden files, folders and drives, and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
2. Go to the following folder:

C:\Users\\AppData\Local\

3. Once inside the folder, delete IconCache.db. Create a new file named IconCache.db, and set it to Read Only attribute in Properties (if the file is not read only, the cache won’t be reset).
4. Then restart the computer. Remove the Read Only attribute of IconCache.db file, and the icons cache will be refreshed.

The steps will restore the desktop shortcut icons to their lawfully icons.

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Available For Download On April 28th

Microsoft has announced that the final RTM build of Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 (Service Pack 2) is due to release for public download on April 28th, 2009. 2nd service pack for the popular productivity suite is applicable for both the 2007 Microsoft Office System and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers.

According to Office Sustained Engineering blog, the download links for Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 will be published on April 28th, 2009 together with updated documentations and knowledge base articles.

Changes that impact desktop applications

• Service Pack 2 adds the ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These applications now let users save, open, and edit files as OpenDocument Text (*.odt), OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*.ods), and OpenDocument Presentations (*.odp).
• The 2007 Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 is the first service pack to support uninstall of client updates through the Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite as well as via Windows Installer command line. The Service Pack Uninstall Tool will be available as a separate download.
• The Microsoft Save As PDF or XPS add-in has been built into Office applications in SP2. Users no longer have to download and install the add-in separately.
• When many graphic objects are present performance has been improved.
• In many scenarios, expect increased print fidelity of graphical objects.
• Improved interoperability using standard DrawingML markup to describe the visual properties of the SmartArt graphic.

The 2007 Office Suite SP2 has been tested and is supported for Internet Explorer 8. Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 and Windows Server R2 will all be supported upon their release.

Windows 7 RC Completed At Build 7100

A number of sources including Neowin have confirmed that the official Windows 7 RC build has been completed at build 7100.

The build string is 7100.0.winmain_win7rc.090421-1700 and compile date is at Tuesday April 21st, 2009. It was reportedly distributed to OEM partners and TAP Gold partners. It’s been two weeks since the last build leak of 7077, which was indicated as the RC escrow.

If all goes as expected, May 5th will be the date Microsoft releases RC to the public. MSDN and Technet subscribers should get their hands on it one week prior to that date.

Free 100 Days Product Key For Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Is Back Again

Now, just like the post title, you can get the 100 days of KIS 2009 license for free but you have to do some tricks on how to get that.

How? Get the tips on that from WongSK.

Enjoy!!!

Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7 - Quick Fix For Networking Problems

I've posted on "How To Repair/Fix Slow Internet Connection Issue On Windows XP & Vista" using ICR earlier, but unfortunately PCLive (the company of ICR) will cost you some payment to fix the internet problems on your computer. They play some tricks here (I thought it was a free troubleshooting/repairing because the software is freeware), I'm sorry for that for not testing the software first before posting it here.

So, we left that software aside and here's how to quick fix networking/internet problems manually using a few commands in your computer.

If you've lost or having a slow internet connections due to virus attacks (clean it up first before proceed this) or after you've doing a wrong internet tweaks or also after using some internet tweaking softwares, use this document to repair. These commands reset TCP/IP, Windows Socket, and Windows Firewall.

For Windows XP

1. Open a command prompt by clicking on Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt
2. Type the following commands, pressing Enter after each command:

• netsh int ip reset reset.txt
• netsh winsock reset
• netsh firewall reset

NOTE - Windows XP must have Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed in order for these 3 commands to work properly. Otherwise, only the first command will work.
3. Restart the computer.

For Windows Vista and Windows 7

1. Open a command prompt as Administrator by clicking on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> right-click on Command Prompt -> choose "Run as administrator"
2. Type the following commands, pressing Enter after each command:

• netsh int ip reset reset.txt
• netsh winsock reset
• netsh firewall reset

3. Restart the computer.

Summary

If the commands are typed in properly but errors occur, Windows networking may be heavily damaged. In addition, if these commands do not return errors, yet do not fix the Internet connection after the computer has been restarted, consider further troubleshooting:

• Power-cycle any external networking devices, i.e. routers, cable modems, DSL gateways, etc.
• Check Device Manager for any problems with Network adapters, i.e. if they are disabled or if drivers are not properly installed.

That's it.

How To Repair/Fix Slow Internet Connection Issue On Windows XP & Vista

Whenever windows computer gets infected by spyware, malware the first thing which gets affected is internet connection, in most case either it stops working or becomes extremely slow. Even when you install windows updates or service packs it may affect your internet setting and slows down your internet connection.

It’s very difficult to fix or repair internet connections issues manually on windows xp & vista caused by above reasons. Here is small freeware utility Internet Connection Repair (ICR) which can automatically repair & fix internet connection issues on XP and Vista.

Features of Internet Connection Repair (ICR)

1. Diagnose and automatically repair the most common Internet connection issues
2. Solve complex connection issues by providing easy step by step instructions for problems that cannot be solved automatically
3. Fix problems often associated with removal of spyware/adware or uninstall of network and firewall software
4. Repair registry and Winsock settings for XP and Vista
5. Pinpoint issues and direct you to the right support contact for further assistance.

Download Internet Connection Repair (ICR) & Fix Slow Internet Connection issue on Windows XP and Vista.

Source : BlogsDNA.

Free Avira Premium Security Suite 9 Genuine License For 6 Months

Avira Premium Security Suite has reached version 9, let's see first what is new in this version.

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	AntiAd/Spyware eliminates ad/spyware
	AntiPhishing proactive protection against phising
	AntiRootkit against hidden rootkit threats
	AntiDrive-by prevents against downloading viruses when surfing
	AntiBot prevents dangerous bot networks
	EmailScannerEnhanced email protection
	WebGuard protection against malicious websites
	RescueSystem create a bootable rescue CD
	BackupSystem configurable data backup solution
	AntiSpam filters out unwanted emails
	FireWall protection against hackers
	GameMode uninterrupted game play
	QuickRemoval eliminate viruses at the push of a button NEW!
	NetbookSupport for laptops with low resolution NEW!
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Here's how to get the free 6 months license:

1. Go to Avira promotion page and fill in your your name ,email address and select country,then click 'Request License Now'.

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3. Download Avira Premium Security Suite, install and put in the license that you received from email to activate it.

That's it, get it now.