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If you want to create another account, with root privleges useradd -o -u 0 name That will create an account with the same privleges as root.

If you want to record/download a video from YouTube or any other site you will need to install additional software on your computer to achieve this purpose. There are lots of free software available but you have to be careful as many of them have viruses it would be best to avoid them. Try this [...]

If you have dual monitors you may have noticed Windows does not by default come with an additional task bar on the 2ndry monitor, this can be quite annoying and cause your main monitors taskbar to clutter up and can make it hard to find programs that are open on your other monitors. The solution [...]

If someone says that they can get your home address from your IP address they are lying, they can trace your IP to your closest city using publicly available tools and databases but it’s not accurate and it would not give anyone your address. The only way someone can find your house address through your [...]

You may want to uninstall/remove Windows 7 from your computer if you don’t like it. It is possible to downgrade to previous versions of the Windows operating system such as Windows XP if you. The most common way of downgrading Clean Install – Formatting the Entire Hard Drive To do a clean install of the [...]

If your Internet Provider is BT (british telecommunications) then you may be aware if you download files using the popular file sharing website RapidShare.com that they may block the website, or it simply does not load. This reason for this is because BT is messing with your DNS Lookup, saying that the server does not [...]

Photoshop can be very confusing for new people, theres many tools that can do a multitude of things, this can prove over welming for a new person to the software, I plan to change this. In this post I plan to give you an overview of the tools in photoshop that can be used to [...]

One of the popular questions I hear from many people is “Should I upgrade my XP Computer to Windows 7″ these people are normally the ones who sat out Vista due to the bad reviews and slowness, most people who have upgraded to Windows 7 have positive views on the new Operating System but there [...]

There are many formats you can use that YouTube accepts, but sometimes you have to decide what format to use when converting your videos or exporting with Windows Movie Maker and other video software suites, the best by far would have to be the .AVI extension (Audio Video Interleave) it’s one of the most popular [...]

To find out your graphics card on a Windows XP Machine you will need to go into Device Manager to find out. Click the “Start” button on the Taskbar Click “Control Panel” From inside Control Panel click System From the System Panel click the “Hardware” Tab Click the “Device Manager” button Device Manager should now [...]