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Fixing MS Word and Excel slow to launch or start

You know how it is. After you’ve used MS Word or Excel for a few months or years, suddenly it takes a lot longer to load the application when you doubleclick on a .doc or .xls file. Maybe you tried to clean up your registry or defragged your hard disk but nothing worked. Well, here’s the solution:

“Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types, scroll down to and
select (DOC for Word files) or XLS (for Excel files), click Advanced,
select Open entry, click the edit Button.
Now uncheck “Use DDE” and then put your cursor in the Application box,
arrow all the way to the right and put in “%1″ (include the quote
marks), IF there is /dde remove it. Then OK you way out. Things should
work quickly again.”

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Tidying Up Windows Desktop Clutter

I finally decided to do something about my win xp desktop clutter when I could not even find the recycle bin. Enough was enough! After searching online for all sorts of freeware and shareware desktop managers, I found a simple yet elegant solution. Custom toolbars!! The video below explains it all.

How To Make Toolbars On XP To Tidy Your Desktop

Before tidying :

After putting everything into toolbars:

Now I can access all my applications and files from the custom toolbars from the Taskbar with just one click. Works with Windows XP and Vista.

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Genuine Work From Home For Moms

For all the stay at home moms out there looking to work from home, this may be the ideal job for you. A new website called WorkFromHomeStudyCourse is offering a free 30 day step by step home study course on how to make a full time income on the internet in just 30 days. Now, this is not a ‘Get Rich Quick - look how easy it is to make tons of money in 1 week’ kinda course that lots of internet marketing gurus are pushing out there. It’s actually a daily work plan that the author emails out to you everyday detailing step by step how to genuinely make money on the internet by selling information or software products.

I signed up for the course already to see how it works and I can tell now straight away that it involve a concept called Bum Marketing or Article Marketing. It a proven method for generating sales on the internet without any startup cost but you must be prepared to do the daily hard work and put in the same effort that regular office jobs do.

Fortunately, the better you are at Bum Marketing, the easier it gets and the less hours it take to achieve the same results.

Looking at the content and attention to detail the author has put into this work from home course, I cannot believe he is offering this for free. I’ve paid lots more money for courses that didn’t offer as much. So, if you’re a mom and you need to work from home, check out this free work from home study course.

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Aweber Discount Coupons - The Awful Truth

If you’ve been googling for an Aweber discount coupon or promotional code, you can stop now. There are NONE available. Tom Kulzer,CEO & Founder of AWeber Communications, Inc. put it succinctly on the Warrior Forum when he said:

Boo hoo, I guess that we all have to pay full price ($19 a month) for arguably the best autoresponder service on the internet. Used by all the best Internet Marketers out there, Aweber has become the top choice for autoresponders and have been in business for the past 10 years. I guess in the end, you get what you pay for.

The only incentive Aweber offers new customers is access to an exclusive training video by Jonathan Mizel, who’s a guru in targeted opt-in e-mail list building.

Here’s their promo below:

What do industry giants like Disney, Microsoft, Intel, and
American Express have in common?  They’ve all sought out the
expertise of the "master of targeted opt-in e-mail," Jonathan
Mizel!  Now you can, too!

Order an Unlimited Follow up Autoresponder from AWeber today
to get access to the revealing e-mail secrets of Jonathan Mizel:
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Well, there you have it. Your search is over, you can’t get Aweber any cheaper. You can now confidently signup for the most amazing, best value, proven and guaranteed autoresponder service in the world.

Wait, wait. I made a mistake. You can get Aweber at a discount price after all .. only $14.95 a month!!

How? Sign up for one year and get 25% off the regular price.

Aweber Autoresponder Service

1 month recurring :                                    $19.95
12 month recurring:                                   $179.40 ($14.95 /month)
Having your emails delivered every time:    Priceless

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Tags: aweber coupon code, Aweber discount, aweber promo code

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Windows XP Registry Cleaners - Free Scans

How many windows xp registry errors does your computer have? It is estimated that 94% of PCs have corrupt and unused registry data that may cause slowdowns and crashes!

You may have noticed that the longer you have your computer, the slower it runs and the more it crashes. Often this phenomenon is caused by problems in the registry that accrue over time. Installing and uninstalling programs leave behind fragments - stray files, orphaned startup tasks, corrupted drivers. Over time the registry starts to get bogged down and conflicts emerge. Left unchecked, your system will become increasingly unstable, run more slowly and crash more frequently.

Fortunately, you can now get the award winning Registry Booster V2.0 from Uniblue at a 20% discount for a limited time only. Use the link below to scan your PC for free and qualify for the discount.

>> Uniblue RegistryBooster - Save 20% with coupon! <<
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Coupon Code: GETRB20%

Windows XP Registry Cleaners - Free Scans (Vista Compatible)

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Where to download Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Trial version

If you’ve been searching the internet high and low to download the Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Free Trial version, look no further.  With Dragon NaturallySpeaking you can talk to your computer and watch words quickly appear in documents, e-mails, instant messages and even surf the web simply by speaking! It’s amazingly accurate - up to 99% - and really easy to use. There’s no script reading or "voice training" required, so you can get started dictating right away.

The trial software is about 1GB in size which is probably why it’s so hard to find and Nuance, the maker of this speech recognition software, uses a download manager to manage the download. You can download the trial software here => Download Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Trial Version

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How to put music on a myspace web page

It’s really easy to put music on your myspace web page. You just need to copy the embed codes for the music files and put them in the music section of your myspace profile section. You can add myspace audio mp3 embed codes from lots of places, eg. music search engines like www.seeqpod.com, www.skreemr.com and www.songza.com or social music sites like last.fm, iJigg, Pandora, MOG, etc. Finding the music embed codes on these sites is easy.

Here are some examples

1. Seeqpod.com

2. Skreemr.com

3. SongZa.com

4. Last.fm

5. iJigg

6. Pandora

7. iMeem

Once you find the audio embed codes, copy the codes and open your myspace profile section, locate the section where you want the music to go and paste the embed codes there. The codes can be placed in any of the profile sections. On some of the social music sites, you can choose to auto embed the music code into your myspace page. This saves you the work of copying and pasting.

Tags: add audio myspace, how to put music on myspace web page

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Where to find Free Music to listen to on the Internet

Wowee! I was so surprised to find this source of free music to listen to on the Internet that I immediately wrote this post to share with you all. Music search engines scour the web looking for music files that people have uploaded to servers. Because they don’t store the music files themselves but instead index these files and allow them to be found, music search engines are somewhat on the fringes of copyright laws. Also, the fact that you can play the music you find, create playlists that you can save and even embed music into websites using an embedded player means that it’s free music heaven for you and me. Here are 3 of the most useful free music search engines for your listening pleasure!

1. SeeqPod

SeeqPod has the best user interface in my opinion. One click on the speaker icon next to the search results adds the song to your playlist and automatically plays it. Also, the exact location of the song on the server is listed underneath the song title. Although it’s not a clickable link, it doesn’t take much imagination to download the actual file on the server. I’m assuming here that you already own the music you want to download. Yah, right …

2. Songza

Songza calls itself an internet jukebox but it’s hard to see how. It has similar options to SeeqPod like playlists, embeddable players but it’s interface is rather cumbersome. One plus feature is that you can rate the recording quality of the songs you find. Poorly rated recordings of the same song will appear lower in it’s search listings. Also, I found some songs in Songza that I could not find in SeeqPod. So, it pays to use several music search engines to find the songs you want.

3. Skreemr

Skreemr by far returned the most search results for me. It too has an embeddable player but no playlists. Details of the songs like audio format, bit rate, duration and file sizes are available. A direct link to the song on the server is also shown and you can rank the quality and reliability of the files.

	Guns N Roses - Knocking On Heavens Door
	Found at skreemr.com

Tags: free music, free music to listen to, music search engines

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Don’t Give Up On Microsoft Vista

This is the latest PC / Mac guy ad from Apple. It’s really funny and it makes use of two ad spaces on a page instead of the usual one.

 I think my next notebook is gonna be a MacBook. I shudder to think that I’ll have to upgrade to Vista when I buy a new notebook.

Tags: Apple, MacBook, Vista

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How To Stop Losing Clickbank Affiliate Sales In Firefox

Recently, I started promoting a Clickbank product on one of my other sites. After a while, from my stats, I could see lots of traffic going to the affiliate product sales page but strangely no sales at all. I suspected that I was not being credited for sales taking place. When I visited the sales page using Internet Explorer, I could see on the clickbank payment page, [affiliate=myclickbank_id] but when I used the Firefox browser, it showed [affiliate=none]!

After some research on the net, I came across an article by Kidino who found a solution. To make sure your clickbank affiliate id shows up in Firefox, at the end of your clickbank hoplink, add ‘&type=nohop’. eg

Instead of => http://myclickbank_id.merchant_id.hop.clickbank.net

Use => http://myclickbank_id.merchant_id.hop.clickbank.net/&type=nohop

Many thanks to Kidino for this solution.

Tags: affiliate marketing, clickbank, firefox

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