Before paying for any recovery software, try out all the methods in this post (100% FREE) to recover your corrupted or unreadable pptx, ppt, docx, doc, xlsx, xls, odt, ods, and odp files. We, the editors at Computertipsfree.com, will try out best to provide you the most …

A proper Microsoft Office 2010 Serial Key is a proof of your license to use the software. If you ever need to reinstall Microsoft Office 2010 (perhaps because of a clean wipe out of your computer or simply a software crash problem), you will need …

Over the last Christmas weekend, the iPhone Dev-Team have just released the so-called “backup plan“, the Redsnow 0.9.7, for untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak. This beta release of Redsn0w will enable you to jailbreak [untethered] iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone 4, iPad and iPod touch 4G.
The following …

What on earth is P2POver? To me, hell yeah it’s a godlike software that does godlike stuffs! It is a piece of software that is able to hijack your home network and limit the bandwidth of any computer connected to the home network. I used …

Windows 7 is engineered for better speed than its predecessors (Windows Vista, etc). But even then, most of us don’t get satisfied with it. Most of us, especially gamers, want to use the least possible memory and resources for their Windows. In this way, more …

To open a new tab, just Double-Click an area to the right of the tabs boxes, without having to click the little blank Tab Box.
Right-Click a blank area and click Favorites bar to enable the Favorites bar.
Right-Click a blank area and click Command bar to …

Windows live messenger 2011 is finally out of beta and you can now download its final version from this page. Aside from the new user interface, there’re a variety of new features and improvement brought into this version. Yet, WLM is still the most preferable and the …

Everyone’s looking for the best ads placement tips for their blogs or websites to maximize their revenue, yet most of them haven’t found one. Even I have not found the best for myself yet, but I believe the current positioning is nearly the best. After …

If you ever find an unattractive ad showing on your sites too frequently, you can block the particular ad from appearing on your ads slots via a tool called Competitive Ad Filter in your Adsense account. This is to prevent your ads slots from being wasted …

When you search this term, “stop windows update restart”, I’m pretty sure you’re annoyed by the popup which keeps prompting to you requesting you to restart your computer after some automatic Windows Updates.This thing kills my patience especially when I’m playing full screen games that …

Microsoft has finally released the beta version of their latest edition of IE (Internet Explorer) – IE 9. Unlike IE 8, IE 9 has a brand new graphic user interface which somewhat looks like chrome. In fact, chrome has the most effective user interface that …

If you have the error message: “Error 148:3 – Licensing for the product has stopped working” that comes up whenever you try to open Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended or any other Adobe products, it generally means that your adobe licensing service has not been started …

If you’ve ever deleted your sticky notes by accident, or simply want to recover your notes from a dead Windows, there will still be something of a ghost remaining in the file where Sticky Notes save the notes to. This can be found in:
%AppData%\Microsoft\Sticky Notes\StickyNotes.snt
Copy …

This post provides the possible fixes for Windows Live Messenger or MSN error code 81000306 or 800B0001. If you ever encounter this dilemma, which is quite common nowadays, don’t be panic. Try out each of the following fixes and you might find one that works. Symptom: …

Error 651 is a well-known bug in Windows 7 which happen when you try to connect to the Internet using PPPoE connection. If you’re one of the victims who met this bug, you should see the following error message: Error 651: The Modem (or other …

10 Reasons Why You Should Sign Up For Gmail
1. Spam Free – Gmail Sign Up
Don’t waste time with junk mail and unwanted messages. Gmail blocks spam before it gets to your inbox. If an unwanted message ever finds its way through, you can fight back …

VLC Media Player is often known as the GOD player because of its ability to play almost anything you throw on it. In many cases, people use VLC to play broken files retrieved from a failed memory card. I’ve also experienced the exact same situation which all data in my camera memory card was accidentally deleted. I used …

Everyone has a secret. And your secret could be stored in your computer. If you are not the only one who use your computer, your secret files and folders will need to be stored with password protected. This article will show you a trick on how you can set password for …

Virus infection through USB drives is indeed the most annoying and most talked about case in the computer world. When someone plug his/her pendrive into your computer, if the USB autorun option is enabled in your PC, you might potentially get infected by the virus (if exist) contained in …

We are to talk about the best Virus Removal Software on the market, but why do we need an antivirus software? I’m pretty sure that you know what is a computer virus when you came to this page. The word “Virus” is indeed the most talked about word …

Surprised by a sudden blue screen with a bunch of crash dump error codes while having your works half done? In Windows 7, blue screen error or, blue screen of death (commonly known as BSOD), is indeed the scariest error you can ever encounter. The …

Seen a sudden blue screen with a bunch of crash dump error codes while having your works half done? In Windows Vista, blue screen error or, blue screen of death (commonly known as BSOD), is indeed the scariest error you can ever encounter. The computer …

Sometimes we may need to run a program that is not compatible with Windows 7. In this case, we can run a program in compatibility mode in Windows 7. However, if running a program in compatibility mode doesn’t work out, the best way is to install a Virtual Windows XP (or commonly …

The ways to add a network printer to a home network might differ depending on what type of printer you have and how you want it to be. Generally, there are 3 case scenarios on how to add a network or wireless printer to a home network and yours should …

If you have an application or program that can only run in earlier versions of Windows, for example Windows XP, the first solution you should try is to run the program in Windows XP compatibility mode in Windows 7. Compatibility mode allows an older program …

The word Format can mean quite a few things in the world of computer. You can format texts [changing the properties of the text such as size, font type, color etc], change a file format [saving a file in different extension such as .avi .mkb .txt etc], and in this case, …

If you have Windows Vista or Windows 7 installed in your computer, the default location of your User Profile is usually in the same partition as where your system is installed. For example, if your windows is installed in C:\Windows, then your user profile will probably be located …

Why would you want to waste your money paying for tune up software or visiting a computer shop if you can actually do the same thing yourself? Tuning up a PC isn’t an easy task. In fact, some software can do the tuning jobs for …

How to use?
You can see lots of people using cute and cool symbols or characters as their profile names in Facebook, Twitter or MSN Messenger names. If you want to do so, you can use the cool characters or symbols provided in this article. Simply copy and paste to where you …

Getting trouble with “run as administrator”? Does it ever annoy you? Wanna know how to get rid of it or stick with it with the most simple way? In today’s tip, we’ll show you 3 tricks on how to play around with it. 

What is Windows Experience Index
Windows Experience Index was first introduced in Windows Vista, back then the maximum score of each aspect was 5.9. When Windows 7 came to the market, Microsoft has increase the top score to 7.9 in order to catch up with new emerging …

Tired of hunting down free video converters that suit your needs? Having problem converting your movies into iphone formats? Searching around for video converter that does rmvb to avi? Every single day, there’re thousands of people scratching their heads when it comes to converting their …

Do you have a large monitor? Or do you have difficulty when reading some texts on the screen? If so, you’re in the right place now.
It’s becoming a lot more common for people to use larger and larger monitors. With this fact, zooming feature are in high demand …

Visit the lastest PC Fair Malaysia 2010 [II] at this page.PC Fair will be coming again in this April. PIKOM PC Fair is the biggest Computer Related Hardware pasar(market) in Malaysia that usually happen every year where people from all over the country will come to …

In this crazily busy world, we can’t always remember every little detail of every little thing. That is why we jot down important notes and keep it for later reference. Windows 7 Stick Notes helps us to do this.
In this tip, I will show you …

This tutorial will lead you through a few VERY simple steps of adding a subtitle to a movie. I bet you wouldn’t enjoy the movie if you don’t understand the language of it. The best way to solve this problem is to simply add a piece of subtitle …

Like everyone said, time is gold. Every single second is precious and time is not to be wasted. Do you notice that sometimes we actually used up to 10 seconds to open a windows program? With today tip, you can probably open any programs in less than 5 seconds. So …

Here’s a list of Windows shortcut keys widely used by Windows users. Use them often and you will eventually get used to them. They can really save you lots of time. Some of these might not work in the older versions of Windows. Try them …

Have you ever notice that your system is very slow with windows vista? Today tip is written for people like you who suffer from the down sides of windows vista. We all know Windows Vista eats up a lot of computer memory and with no …

The internet provides you with a wealth of information and with one of the best communication mediums to make trading on the web. With the click of the mouse, the Internet allows you to book hotel, buy computer accessories, book a cinema ticket, etc. As …

Many software today want to run some of their components at all times, whether the programs are being used or not. These components will be inserted into Windows Startup System so that they can be run every time you turn on your computer without your …

Sometimes you may notice that your computer systems are running slow, many programs stop responding halfway, or your CPU usage for the system process approaches 100 percent. At this rate, you should check your hard disk immediately by using ScanDisk Utility.

What is Defragmentation? Why Should you do it?
The Meaning of Defragmentation:
“Defragmentation” is a term used for the process of scanning the file system and reducing the amount of fragmentation in file systems. Doing this may greatly improve system performance.

If you wish to know more about computer viruses, you may want to read this – “Introduction To Computer Viruses”.
Some Hints and Tips on how to avoid virus infections:
Tip 1 :
The most common viruses can be disguised as attachments of funny images, greeting cards, or …