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HOW TO UNLOCK A CRASHED APPLICATION
OR WINDOWS SYSTEM WITHOUT RESTARTING YOUR COMPUTER
In
previous deliveries [15,
21,
23]
some hints and tips were given to you on:
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How to minimize the occurrence of Fatal Error Screen.
[15]
- How To Minimize The Occurrence of Windows Hang-Up.
[21]
- How To Improve Your Computer Overall Stability.[23] |
Particularly, a very useful utility called System
Crash Monitor, which does the job of minimizing
the occurrence of crashes in Windows Operating Systems,
had been introduced to you. A must have that does the
job better than commercial utilities. However, even
if you put your computer into order performing tips
and hints advised in Issue
23 you may still experience some crashes from
time to time. Nothing perfect under the sun!
If a crash does occur when you are busy teleconferencing
or chatting with a friend, it may be very annoying if
you have to go through the normal process of restarting
the system altogether in order to unfreeze your computer.
You can avoid that painful Restart process if you have
an utility called CyberLat RAMCleaner installed.
In addition to its ability to smoothly managing Read
Only Memory (RAM) as explained in delivery
23, CyberLat RAMCleaner has the potential
[Ctrl + Alt + F4] of Killing / unfreezing
crashed applications, releasing their allocated RAM
and therefore avoiding the Restart of the system.
Cyberlat RAMcleaner is here
available.
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ARE YOU PARANOID? OR DO YOU WANT
SIMPLY COVER YOUR TRACES?
At the office, when you use your desktop, you are
leaving plenty of traces on your hard drive about websites
you visited and files you opened, documents you read.
Etc.
This happens because Windows Operating Systems and Internet
Explorer Browser have score of helpful features that
make your computing and surfing experiences very user
friendly:
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Windows lists the recently viewed files so that
you can re access them easily.
- Internet Explorer prompts you with previously
used entries while you fill in a form online.
- It remembers previously visited websites and
displays them all on a drop down menu each time
you try to type something new in the address bar.
Etc.
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Yes that's great. However there is a price to all
these amenities. You are exposing your privacy to anyone
who may have access to your computer.
At home you are safe for sure, but what about the office.
A colleague may be entitled to run your computer when
you are not present and the bog boss may also pry into
it to see if you are solely concentrated on your job.
Yes, thanks to the user friendly features above briefly
outlined, anybody who has access to your computer can
pry into what you were doing both on your system and
online. The documents you worked on, the images you
viewed, the applications you used, the websites you
visited, even the files or text you searched for.
If you do not have a complete control of the access
to your computer, you better watch out in order to keep
trouble at bay and protect your privacy.
There are plenty of utilities around which help you
stay put. Many will cost you few bucks. One of them,
MyPrivacy, is free. It helps you routinely maintain
your privacy from prying eyes.
MyPrivacy assist you efficiently:
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Cleaning up the AutoComplete & IE histories.
- Deleting Temporary download and and Temporary
Internet files.
- Managing cookies.
- Clearing the lists of recently used files.
- Clear up Windows Run / Find Files /Search Text
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- Remove Media Player Recent File and URL list menus.
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You can disable AutoComplete and AutoSuggest options.
There is even an option to configure Windows Media Player
not to display the list of recently accessed files.
The choice of the level of privacy you want to achieve
is completely yours. Click
here to get MyPrivacy by OmniQuad
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