Sometimes no matter how hard you click that cancel option on the list of pending print jobs, the stubborn task don't go away. There are two ways you can deal with this problem. First you can restart "spoolsv.exe" service by opening Services (type "services" from Run / Search box) and look for Print Spooler. Right click the Print Spooler service and choose Restart from the popup context menu. Another way to solve the stubborn print job problem is by using this batch file script.

Just copy the following script to notepad and name it as bat file (ex. cancelprint.bat).

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I was rearranging my photos on my external hard drive this morning when I found out that almost 20% of my images have duplicate copies. Instead of manually deleting each duplicate copy, I tested a software that I stumbled upon recently. AntiDupl is a free app for searching of similar pictures. It can find and display duplicate images in the main graphic formats: JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP and PNG. The comparison is based on the contents of the files, so the program can find not only almost identical, but similar images.

You can start searching duplicate images by selecting files or folders that you want to process and hit the start search button.



After the process, it will display pairs of duplicate images with information like the images file name, local folder and difference value. You can manually delete images from the result window or opt-out to use the automatic feature although auto option is limited to deleting the first or second image of a pair.

AntiDupl.net works on major 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft operating systems and requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0

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Not all Windows programs gives you option to include them to Windows startup during installation. Ofcourse you can manually add it to startup list by dragging the program's shortcut to startup folder. If you need an easier to perform this task you can try AutoEX. It is free, small and easy to use application that allows you to add any program to windows startup. AutoEX allows you to set a program to start just once or every windows restart. You also have an option to apply the startup setting to all users or just for the current user only.




AutoEX is also a portable application which you can bring along with your USB thumb drive. It works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, as long as you have .NET Framework 3.5 or later installed on your machine.

Download AutoEX via [softpedia.com]

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For Windows Developers out there, you can now create your own Windows Phone 7 application using this powerful and easy to use Visual Studio integrated developer environment (IDE). It handles design and testing of Windows Phone 7 Series phone applications.

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When you need a file viewer for specific type, you usually download the dedicated app for it. For example, if you require MS Word Doc Viewer, you can download it from Microsoft website. What if you need to open several types of files? Will you download each viewer program for each type?. The answer is "No". You can open all these multiple types in a single app called the Universal Viewer. It is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode, RTF, UTF-8, all general graphics formats (jpg, png, tga, tiff...), all MS Window Media Player formats, MS Office files and a lot more.




Once installed Universal Viewer also adds itself in context-menu of Windows so you can call up the viewer from anywhere in the Windows environment.



Generally, Universal Viewer is an application similar to Total Commander Lister. But comparing to Lister, it has the following highlights:

Built-in functions of several plugins: images, multimedia, webpages view
Support for multiple codepages: ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ISO etc.
Support for text converters for DOC, DOCX, ODT, PDF etc.
Support for user tools
Toolbar, status bar, other interface improvements
Auto-reloading of file on changing, "Follow tail" option
Displaying of line numbers
Displaying of non-printable characters
Combined Unicode/Hex mode (call Unicode mode twice)
Modern RegEx search library
Print preview
EXIF viewer

Universal Viewer works on all 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows.

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This is how internet classroom might have looked like if the students were Social Networking Sites.

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Not all we follow in Twitter follow us back. If you feel its unfair then you can un-follow them but its tedious to check each person on your following list specially if you have so many. Don't worry, there is an easier way. Using JustUnfollow, you can easily recognize and unfollow those who do not follow you back. Just go to the website and login to your Twitter account. You have to authorize JustUnfollow to access your Twitter account. The website will display those people who do not follow back.



Click the "Unfollow" link on each user you want to remove from your following list. Here are the features of JustUnfollow:
- List all users who do not follow you back on Twitter.
- Unfollow you non-follower contacts easily.
- Displays only a maximum of 50 non-followers.

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Recently we replaced all windows laptop and notebooks of all our AVPs with Mac book. The change was not easy specially to those executives that are not familiar or first timer with Mac OS X Operating system. If your on similar situation, you can read a good ebook from MakeUseOf.com that will surely get you started from using Macbook. This ebook is based on Snow Leopard (the latest release of the Mac OS X operating system). It teaches you everything you need to know about Mac. There are numerous tips, tricks and free applications.




Download the Mac eBook Manual via [MakeUseOf.com].

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For office computers or even some home computers, having multiple windows user profile is pretty normal. There are times that you may encounter inaccessible user profile due to several reasons such as disk error, joining/disjoining the computer to a domain, transferring data to another computer, change of username and more. It is possible to fix this type of problem manually, but it involves editing the registry and adjusting permissions. These tasks are too complicated and time-consuming for average users. Fortunately there is a free portable app that can fix this problem easily.

Reprofiler offers a quick and easy way to see which profile is associated with which user. If a problem is evident, it then provides an intuitive and straightforward means of correcting the profile ownership.



To use Reprofiler, just select the User Account and the Profile Folder and hit Assign to fix the issue. Aside from profile ownership correction, you can also view the Properties, Detach a User Account from the Profile Folder, and Erase Data.

ReProfiler works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server, and Windows 7.

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Using comments can help make a programs more readable to other developers specially if your developing projects as a Team. But there are times that you may want to remove all of these comments. Instead of manually removing each comment, you can use an open source application that automatically can perform the task for you. CommentRemover is a great utility for removing comments from source codes that are coded in PL/SQL, Delphi and C/C#/C++. It is developed in C# under Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.

To use the utility, open your command prompt and go to "CommentRemover.exe" location. Use the following syntax:

CommentRemover <infile> <outfile> <language>




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