The error says

DNS error – cannot fine server.

Oops ! this link appears to be broken.

I found out that its not me alone, there are many people facing similar problem. This may happen when the site you are trying to open is up and running and opens in other web browsers like Firefox, IE, Opera etc.

I have sometimes restarted my DSL router assuming that its my bad Internet connection causing this problem, I also checked the DNS settings, but they seemed fine.

This problem is because of a setting of Google Chrome called the DNS-Pre-fetching which will fetch the IP addresses of all the links on your current webpage so that when you click any of these links, it can save time on DNS resolution. In some rare instances, pre-fetching of DNS may fail, which cause this DNS error.

To fix this problem, you simply need to turn off this setting by following these 2 simple steps.

1. Click on the settings at the top right corner of the Google Chrome browser and click option.

2. Click on the “Under the Hood” and uncheck the option which says “Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance”, press close button.

It was simple, wasn’t it ? After turning this feature off, your page load time will increase very slightly but it will not give you DNS errors if the site you are opening is up and running.

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All these kinds of toolbars gets installed by several software which has these toolbars bundled in the setup files, and generally users ignore these default options checked while installing these softwares.

In order to remove such toolbars from the browsers, you can try Toolbar Uninstaller, BHORemover and the third tool described below.

Smart Toolbar Remover allows you remove all these annoying toolbars across the different browsers on your computer, it will easily remove all the crappy toolbar, you just need to this application and then select which toolbars you want to remove.

Toolbar Remover lets you do it for you – it’s quick and easy! Just check the box next to each toolbar you want to remove, and get rid of them all with the click of a button! When you restart your computer

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Internet is full of viruses and trojans and that is why we always recommend to use some good anti-virus and anti-rootkit protection for your PC. Many windows computers which are infected with a particular type of rootkit infection are reported to be crashing and restarting abruptly and showing Blue Screen Of Death with following error codes.

• WindowsUpdate_8007f0f4
• 0×8007f0f4
• WindowsUpdate_FFFFFFFF
• 0xFFFFFFFF

These errors start appearing on the rootkit infected computers after they install security update

977165 from Microsoft. The rootkit infection responsible for these crashes changes some of the system files which cause this crash or BSOD. In this article I will share some information to avoid such crashes and to scan your computer for the responsible rootkit infection.

Fix:

First of all, you need to check that whether your computer is infected with this particular rootkit or not, for this, you need to Download Microsoft FixIT tool and run it to scan your PC for rootkit infection :

If the above tool tells you that – “Your computer appears to be compatible with Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-015” , this means that your computer is not infected. Otherwise refrain from installing the security update until there is a patch or fix from Microsoft on this problem.

Additionally, you can try the below rootkit removal tool and then run the Microsoft Fix it tool again to see whether the rootkit issue is fixed or not.

Download Sophos Anti RootKit Remover To Delete RootKits

The problem applies to Windows 7, Windows Vista , Windows XP, Windows Server 2008.

Source – Microsoft Support

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PureRa is another freeware tool which lets you clean up log and junk files in windows 7, it lets you clean all those files which were before ignored by previous temp file cleaning programs for windows.

It is a portable tool which runs directly from executable without any installation, it allows to clean up Temp Files, Recycle Bin, Windows Update Installation Files, WMI Logs, IconCache.db etc and lot more other things which are usually missed by other programs of this category.

It can also repair icons in windows 7, as this program cleans the IconCache.db file which stores icon cache. This data cleaner cleans something which no other program does, so it is again a useful program to use, go ahead and download it to make your system lighter.

Download PureRa

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Do you have an old computers which has low RAM ? If yes, then this tool is really helpful for you.

Old computers with low RAM become slow when you run many applications on them at the same time. They become slow because almost all RAM becomes full and it takes lots of time for any application to respond.

In this article I will share a freeware tool called Extra RAM tool which helps to free the RAM that is currently occupied and not in use so that the running application can speed up using that freed RAM.

Fix:

Extra RAM is a freeware which is small and lightweight and works by optimizing the use of RAM.

You need to download and install this free tool and simply run it, click “Optimize Now” optimize the RAM for running applications on Windows. It works with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

This is a pretty handy and useful tool if you are running with low RAM and performance issues.

Also Read -

• Speed up your computer by Disk Optimization
• Speed up your computer by Startup tasks optimization

Download Extra RAM Tool

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It allows users to recover various formats of office files and it supports all Microsoft Office systems as well. With this strong guarantee, the users could enjoy a 100% relax that their files and data are always exist in any case.

Following are some key features of this tool

1. Recover lost office files of various formats: DOC, PPT, PPTX, DBX, PDF files, etc;
2. Choose precise file formats to get accurate recovery;
3. Preview recoverable documents and information before recovery;
4. Recovery result won’t change the original file format and layout;
5. Support Office 97, XP, 2000, 2003 and 2007;
6. Easy 3-step, without special technical skills.

Requirement To Run This Application

Operating System: Windows 2000/ XP / 2003/Vista
CPU: P4 1.6 and above recommended
RAM: 256MB and above recommended
Disk Capacity: 1.5GB and above recommended

This office recovery software is priced at $29.95 but it is available as free for until 10 April 2010, so go ahead and grab the free copy of your today.

Note: Free registration code for permanent use is available before April 11th, 2010

Promotional Page For Wondershare Office Recovery

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In such case you may feel helpless as there in no safe mode in outlook which some how allows you to start outlook without any add-on running.

The simplest solution to the problem is to find out is there any new add-on or any other program installed which affects outlook and uninstall it, if still it does not work then follow the procedure given below.

Navigate to Control Panel and search for item named Mail, double click to open it, this will open Mail Setup, now click the button show profiles as highlighted in the image below.

Now click the add button to add a new working profile.

Now check the radio box option which says prompt for a profile to be used.

Now you can check whether outlook was crashing due to the profile you were previously using, as it will prompt for the user profile to be used at start up. If the issue is because of your profile we would suggest you to backup the data from your old profile and create a new profile in outlook to use to that it wont crash anymore.

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But when you try to remove older Nokia pc suite, you may not be able to see the entry for some reason under installed programs or the uninstalling procedure for older Nokia pc suite may not complete due to some reason, read on further to know how to completely remove Nokia pc suite.

Nokia PC Suite Cleaner is a light weight portable program released by Nokia recently, which can remove a corrupted Nokia pc suite on your computer. It will remove the unnecessary files and registry data left on your PC, after uninstalling Nokia PC Suite.

Note: Make sure to take a backup copy of your important data before using PC Suite Cleaner

Some Key Features Of This Application

1. The application is designed to delete both files and registry information.

2. Depending on the installation directory of PC Suite, PC Suite Cleaner might also delete user-defined files.

3. PC Suite Cleaner creates a temporary directory where it copies all files it removes.

When you run this tool, it will give you following options from which you need to choose your error you are seeing when you try to remove Nokia Pc Suite.

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Few days back, I made my 4 GB USB pen drive bootable with a developer version of Chrome OS. To make my USB pen drive bootable, I used a tool which creates Linux based EXT partitions on the USB drive. All worked well and the bootable pen drive worked well.

After few days when I wanted to transfer some data I formatted the 4GB pen drive in Windows and I was surprised to see that Its showing only 941 MB of drive space. I formatted it again and it was still only 941 MB drive.

I opened Disk Management in windows to analyze the disk and came to know that the tool which i used to make my USB pen drive bootable, had partitioned my Pen drive into two parts. One of them was 941 MB of FAT partition which was usable and the remaining 2.7GB was showing as unallocated space.

In this article I will tell you how I recovered that space by using another tool.

Fix:

The unallocated space shown in the disk management console of windows was actually Linux EXT partition which is not readable by Windows. As I no longer needed that USB drive as bootable, and wanted to recover the 2.7 GB space allocated to Linux partition, I tried to do a low level formatting of the USB pen drive using some freeware tools. It did not help to recover that Linux partition.

Also the problem with Windows is that It won’t let you create or Merge partitions on a USB pen drive using the Disk Management tool.

I came across this tool called BootIt by Lexar. What is does is that it allows you to set the removable Bit of the drive which will trick Windows into believing that the drive is not a removable drive.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Before following the below method Make sure to backup all your data on pen drive. This process will result in erasing all the data on pen drive.

If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, just run the tool with right click and choosing Run As Administrator option.

Now simply select the drive on the tool below and click the Flip Removable Bit button. After you press it, the tool will ask you to remove and re-insert the drive. After you re-insert the drive into the USB port, it will be non-formatted all RAW space.

Windows will prompt you to format the drive, just go ahead and format the USB drive and it will reclaim the unallocated space just like i got mine back

Hope you find the tutorial easy to follow.

Download BootIt Tool By Lexar

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But if you are not aware about how to use windows in built task manager, here is a simple easy to use batch script which allows you to restart the browser in freeze state easily.

Restart Browser is a simple, handy utility designed to enable you to restart your browser if it freezes or crashes. This is simply a batch file which will ask you which browser, you just need to specify the browser letter at the command prompt to restart it after it gets hanged.

Download Restart Browser Script

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