Remove that pesky download window that appears after downloading a file by adding the Firefox Download Statusbar Add-on to your browser. Alternatively editing the about:config settings as shown below can also disable this window from being displayed.

Open a new tab in Firefox.
In the address bar type: about:config
Locate browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting by copying and pasting the bold [...]

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What is USB?
I Know what you are going to say everybody knows what a usb is on a computer! wrong you’d be surprised to learn how many don’t know what is or what it does they plug in and it works so I thought I’d educate some of the simpleuser family
USB, which stands for [...]

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Just like Windows 2000, Windows XP still fails to set the DMA mode correctly for the
IDE device designated as the slaves on the primary IDE and secondary IDE channels. Most
CD-ROMS are capable of supporting DMA mode, but the default in XP is still PIO. Setting
it to DMA won’t make your CD-ROM faster, [...]

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As laptop users and other LCD owners are quickly realizing, Microsoft’s ClearType technology in Windows XP really makes a big difference for readability. But the this feature [...]

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You attach a USB-based device to a computer that is running Windows XP. Then, you try to scan for hardware devices. However, the computer does not detect the attached device, and you do not see the device in the My Computer folder.
You may experience this problem when you are using one or more of the [...]

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Windows® Vista includes new security features that affect how you run the DB2® Content Manager installation and product code. With the Windows Vista User Access Control feature, an administrator is given only standard user access when logging on. Administrator access is granted only when Windows detects that an administrative task is being performed. If Windows [...]

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