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Quick Tips To Solve Farmville Problems

Posted by Angel Luis On November - 16 - 201014 COMMENTS

Farmville Quick Tips To Solve Farmville ProblemsFarmville is one of the most used Facebook applications. Approximately 10 percent of this entire social media use the game. But there are a lot of known issues you can find in this software:

  • Connection problems, sometimes you cannot access the game from Facebook.
  • “Out Of Sync” messages.
  • Performance problems.

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pin control panel04 Pin the Control Panel to the Taskbar for Quick Access to System Settings [How To]If you use the Control Panel frequently, you may have noticed you can’t right click the shortcut in the start menu and click Pin to Taskbar. In this guide, I’ll show you how to pin the Control Panel to the taskbar and then pin your favorite apps for quick access.

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Best Technology Blog Posts of the Week (November 13, 2010)

Posted by Angel Luis On November - 13 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

system32 RSVR85 46 Best Technology Blog Posts of the Week (November 13, 2010)Because the internet is more than just Windows Guides, we have prepared a selection of the best technology posts of this week.

Do you have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch? Have you ever have an application that is not responding to your commands? Check this article by Alex on HowToGeek.

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Information Use a Script to Get Sizes of Temporary Folders with Just One Click [How To]There are several folders in your computer that can increase size without you having knowledge of it. It’s very common that programs use temporary files. Every browser also uses caches and cookies.

The Folders

Some of these applications don’t delete these files after they are used. In this post I am going to explain how to obtain information about the size of the following folders:

Temporary Folder

This folder which is usually located at “C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp” is used for almost every program to store its temporary files.

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desktop wallpaper626 Desktop Wallpaper: 41 High resolution Wallpapers for Windows, Linux, Mac [Set 13]

We love desktop wallpaper on Windows Guides. Here’s a collection of 50 hand-picked high-resolution wallpapers from various sources online. Know a good place for wallpaper or have some to share? Let us know about it in the comments.

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