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  • Download OpenOffice 3.0

    Download OpenOffice 3.0

    As you know, here at Online IT Pro, we are avid supporters of OpenOffice.  If you have been using OpenOffice 2.4 or have never even looked at OpenOffice, I highly suggest you take OpenOffice 3.0 out for a test drive.

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  • Find out what’s eating your hard drive space

    Find out what’s eating your hard drive space

    Have you ever wondered where all of the Gigs of space disappeared too on your computer?  I go to check the properties of one of my drives and I see that I am almost out of space on my hard drive!  And I think to...

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  • Artweaver: a real alternative to Adobe Photoshop

    Artweaver: a real alternative to Adobe Photoshop

    Do you need a good photo editing program but don’t want to pay the expensive price for Adobe Photoshop?  Yes, Photoshop is a great piece of software but I don’t think it should be that expensive.  And yes, GIMP is an awesome program but Artweaver...

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  • Disable the reboot prompt after you run Windows Update

    Disable the reboot prompt after you run Windows Update

    How annoying is it when Windows keeps prompting you to reboot your computer after you have installed updates?  It annoys me severely! Fortunately, there is an easy way to suppress the reboot prompt in Windows Vista.  Here’s how to disable the reboot prompt.

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  • Add a “Safely Remove Hardware” icon to your desktop

    Add a “Safely Remove Hardware” icon to your desktop

    USB drives are an item of the present and they are used for many tasks.  We rely on them a lot, and sometimes too much.  What happens when you accidentally pull your USB drive out of the computer to early and all of your data...

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  • How to tweak and modify your Windows Vista computer

    How to tweak and modify your Windows Vista computer

    Are you having problems with your Windows Vista computer?  Don’t worry, a lot of people a frustrated with Vista.  Fortunately, Microsoft was nice enough to publish a free guide on how to tune and tweak the performance of Windows Vista.

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  • Turn off Ctrl+Alt+Del to log into your computer

    Turn off Ctrl+Alt+Del to log into your computer

    On most Windows computers, Ctrl+Alt+Delete must be entered before you (the user) is able to log in.  Many users don’t like being required to log in with a username and password into their computer. It’s very easy to turn off this function so users are...

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  • 3 Simple steps to speed up a slow computer

    3 Simple steps to speed up a slow computer

    Is your computer running slow and you just don’t know what to do? Do you often spend large amounts of money on external technical help to speed up your computer? Have you recently installed a program that eats up such a large amount of system...

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  • Get Firefox 3!

    Get Firefox 3!

    Well, I have already shown you Firefox 3 RC 2 and RC 3, but today has finally arrived.  Firefox 3 was released this morning!  Mozilla’s servers have been hit hard all day long so be patient if you have to refresh the page a couple...

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  • How to create an Out of Office reply in Outlook 2007

    How to create an Out of Office reply in Outlook 2007

    If you get a lot of emails like I do, colleagues want to know when you are not in the office.  There is an easy way to takle this in Outlook 2007 by using the Out of Office attendant.  You can set up a custom...

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