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Office Tab is a free add-on which bring tabbed browsing to Microsoft office (Excel, Word and Powerpoint). This application have solved the problem when every new word document or excel worksheet or powerpoint slide document we open consume a lot of space on the taskbar and also its hard for us to manage them.

In windows XP and windows Vista, Microsoft still enforce and limit the maximum simultaneous half-open outbound TCP connection attempts per second that the system can make in order to protect the system being used by malicious software, such as viruses and worms, to spread to uninfected computers, or to launch distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).

The number of TCP connection attempts are limited differently by different version of windows. For example, windows XP SP2 has 10 maximum incomplete concurrent connections attempts limit per second, Windows Vista Home Basic has maximum limit of 2 and Vista Ultimate has 25 per second.

This is why heavy P2P (peer-to-peer) applications such as uTorrent, BitComet, Thunder, eMule, etc, or P2PTV such as PPLive, PPStream, Sopcast, etc may face some error or slow download and upload speed due to these limitations.

However there are some some tools to fix or to crack the TCP concurrent connection limit in Windows XP, Vista & 7.

This morning, when I was checking my hotmail with the default Internet Explorer 8.0 that came with windows seven RC, since I was tried to use Firefox, but I realised that Firefox need to login everytime when I check my mail from the Windows Live Messenger, that’s why I turn back to IE8. While I was checking my mail, I found that everytime I open up Internet Explorer, it responding slower than usual, even can get the” Not Responding” message on the top of the application.

The solution I’m about to show you doesn’t exactly assign a drive letter to the FTP server, but it will essentially serve the same purpose as a drive. Through Windows Explorer you’ll have one-click access to your files. It is quite useful for webmasters.

Here are the steps:

1. Open My Computer / Windows Explorer and choose the “Map Network Drive” option.
For those using Windows Vista / Windows 7, the option is along the top toolbar
If you are using Windows XP, the option will be inside the “Tools” menu

Installing the wireless adapter

Before doing anything else, you need to equip all the machines that will be on the future ad hoc network with a wireless adapter and install drivers.

Configuring the ad hoc network

1. Go to Control Panel - Network Connections, you will see Wireless Network Connection there if the computer wifi already enabled.
2. Right Click Wireless Network Connection, select Properties.
   
3. Click on Wireless Network tab
   If Wireless Network tab is disabled, that’s mean Windows Wireless Zero Configuration service is stopped.
   To enable it, right click My Computer - Manage - Expand Services and Applications - select Services
   Search Wireless Zero Configuration - Start the service if the service is stopped.
   

Do you ever had getting error messages when you’re trying to remove a usb device at “safely remove hardware” or you’re trying to move / rename / delete a file ?

· The device “generic volume” cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later.
· Cannot delete file: Access is denied
· There has been a sharing violation.
· The source or destination file may be in use.
· The file is in use by another program or user.
· Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

If you had trouble with these, you came to the right place.