If you are using Windows and have the settings “show hidden files” enabled, you will probably find that hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys are both taking up lots of disk space on your c:\.
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Where On Earth Is Skype DialPad (Keypad)?
I’m using Skype these days to make local and international landline phone calls. It’s been great so far.
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How To Hide Labeled Emails In Gmail Inbox
Gmail allows users to “filter” their incoming mails and apply “labels” on every email that matches the filter’s criteria. That’s good but new users might find it frustrating that labeled emails are still showing in their main inbox reading list. You can hide labeled emails easily by simply doing the following.
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How To Forward Yahoo Mail to Gmail?
Does anyone know how can I export/migrate/forward all my mail from Yahoo Mail to Gmail without having to upgrade to Yahoo Mail Plus? This is part of my plan to consolidate all my emails to goto one email address at gmail instead of wasting time managing them through different places. Any help will be appreciated.
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Improve Productivity: Focus On Maximizing Output and Minimizing Input
For far too long, I have always had a mental stamp in my brain, a piece of paper pinned somewhere or a board written with the word FOCUS in big black bold text to remind me that that I should always stay focus while I’m doing something. However, today I’ve come across a phrase which is even more useful and it seems to resonate deeper into my head than a single word “FOCUS” can do to me.
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How To Import Hotmail, MSN and AOL Into Gmail
Now you can move all your Hotmail, MSN or AOL emails and archives into Gmail. Here’s how you can do this.
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Why Is System Idle Process Consuming 99% of System Resources?!
Windows task manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) usually shows that the “system idle process” consume as much as 98~100% of the system resource. What is it really doing and why is it using that much of the system’s resources in doing so?
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Dot Net How To Copy Files + Exception Message
I was refering to the Visual Studio 2008 MSDN Documentation and found that there was a mistake in the documentation titled: How to: Copy Files with a Specific Pattern to a Directory in Visual Basic which would lead to a “The given path’s format is not supported” error if followed blindly.
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How To Kill A Process/Task From Command Prompt + .NET
I needed a way to kill a windows process/task programatically and wondered what could be the best way to do so. By process/task, I mean an entry that can be found under “task manager” (through CTRL-ALT-DEL). Don’t confuse that with services which are different things that you can see by running services.msc.
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Oracle Update Installation Error: Java.exe Process Problem and Solution
Error in writing to file ‘C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\jdk\bin\java.exe’. [C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\jdk\bin\java.exe (The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process)]
Error in writing to file ‘C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\jdk\jre\bin\hpi.dll’. [C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\jdk\jre\bin\hpi.dll (The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process)]
The installation of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Patch Set 3 was successful.
The above was obtained from the update installation log after doing a non-interactive (silent) upgrade installation.
And if you run the update installer interactively, this is what you might get, which is basically the same thing as above.
And surprsingly, Oracle still says the update was successful even though you will not be able to actually update the database since you will find really soon that dbua and dbca both won’t start after installing the patch/update. If you’re trying to upgrade Oracle database server and getting the above error messages (or similar), you’re not alone.
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