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How to do a Clean Reinstall of Firefox

Sometimes, when you have a problem, the only thing it seems you can do is to uninstall and reinstall.
However, when you do that, there are often more steps that you should take, than to just use Add/Remove Programs to uninstall and then reinstall immediately.
Using Firefox as an example, let’s take a look at the steps [...]

Quieting Windows’ Noises (and selecting other sounds)

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Do Windows’ sounds ever get on your nerves? In my case, I have [...]

Making Viewed Fonts and Images Larger (or smaller)

Ever go to a web site and find that the fonts are huge? Or, maybe they’re too small for your eyes?
Our favorite web browsers, whether we use Internet Explorer 6, IE7, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2, Opera 8 or Opera 9, have multiple ways for us to change the size of the words we see.
Some of [...]

Cleaning Up the Start Menu

Have you ever noticed that every program wants to install itself into the Start Menu in its very own line?
The Start Menu quickly balloons as each game adds its own block, each utility adds each own section, each graphics program, each communications program, etc. all with their very own listing under “All Programs”…
If you’ve [...]