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This article will explain how to generate a MD5 Checksum on a file or list of filesa and also how to validate a file against a known MD5 Checksum. For those of you that are not familiar with MD5 Checksums, the purpose is to validate the integrity of a file that may have been corrupted [...]

This article will suggest several websites where you can scan your Windows PC for viruses for FREE, without downloading any software. As you all know, there is a huge variety of virus scanners on the market such as: Norton, Mcafee, AVG, ESET, etc. But if you don’t have the budget or don’t want to install [...]

This article will show you how to open/uncompress/unarchive a .tar.bz2 file in Linux. First a little background… bz2 or BZIP2, is a more efficient compression format than ZIP, however it takes longer to comrpess the file. Another difference is that a BZIP2 can only be used to compress a single file, not a directory of [...]

This article will introduce you to the Disk Cleanup utility in Windows to reclaim hard drive space. As you know, a Windows installation can quickly use up a good chunk of your hard drive. Whenever you install new applications, fragments are left behind occupying valuable disk space. In addition, cached web pages from Internet Explorer [...]

This article will show you how to login to VMWare Server 2.0. If you have used an old version of VMWare Server, you know that a username and password were not required to use the program. However, VMware Server 2.0 introduced a web application to run and manage the VMs which run on a Apache [...]

This article will introduce you to uTorrent, which is a freeware torrent client.  uTorrent is an extremely lightweight application ( less tan 300 kb) that is free of any adware and spyware.
Setting Up uTorrent
1. Download & Install uTorrent
2. Start the uTorrent application
3. You must ensure that the port uTorrent runs on (such as 64596) is [...]

This article will introduce you to VLC (VideoLAN) Media Player, which is a complete free media player which plays a variety of file formats including DVD movies. VLC is a completely freeware application that does not contain annoying registration messages, adware, or spyware. This software is supported on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, as well as [...]