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Yesterday, I started facing a problem where whenever I was playing any song, it just used to skip a lot. Then I thought of firing up Process explorer to see what is bothering my computer!

I was quite surprised to see that the CPU usage was 100% and all of that was used by Hardware Interrupts. I started to think that what may have caused the problem but nothing much was striking my mind, because everything was just running normally and it was just that one time the computer switched off directly because of power failure.

I ran some hardware checks and everything came out just fine (You know, just in case).

Then I thought to use the power of Google and came to a fantastic page which helped in fixing up the problem, It feels good when you come to know that you are not the only one who has faced this problem.

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Till the time I wasn’t earning money full time from blogging, I never took plagiarism seriously. I didn’t care if someone was stealing my content and posting it on their blogs. Luckily, not much content was copied from my blog.

But, recently I noticed a blog called TechBlogy (http://www.techblogy.com) which copied the content from my blog and was publishing on his own blog. Thanks to Shankar who actually told me that this guy is copying the content from our blogs (alas! but yes, he copied the content from his blog too).

First of all, I’ll request all of you to please go through this blog and see if he’s copied the content from your blog or not.

Now I would like to take you through the various steps which I took to fight against this guy :

1. Contacted him directly : Well, as the ProBlogger tells us that the first step is to contact the culprit directly. I did that by finding his contact information but only to be sad that this guy doesn’t care about this and didn’t respond to my request. Here’s the email which I’d sent to him :

Hello,
My name is Mayank Gupta and I’m the author of ReviewSaurus. I’m sorry to say this but it seems that you’ve copied the posts from my blog and posted them without giving any credit and also, you’ve done the complete copy and paste of the whole post. I would request you to please remove the posts or if you could make sure that you give the credit by just using small portion of the post.
I’m sure it will help you and your readers.
Thanks & Regards
Mayank

I waited for a day but there was no response, so decided that I’ll report this to Google Adsense team and will get his account banned and like this to Chitika too.

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One of my most famous article @ ReviewSaurus was “Use USB drive as RAM in Windows Vista“. However, I recently noticed that there are users who are experiencing problems of delayed resume time from hibernation or sleep state, when they enable the ReadyBoost feature.

Users have reported that it takes about 5-7 minutes for the computer to resume back from the hibernation or sleep state if the USB drive is plugged in but if they remove the USB drive then it resumes pretty fast. This has been reported mostly on Laptops.

Well, there is no actual explanation to this (as of now) but there are users who have reported the fix to this problem too. James Kendrick found the solution to this problem by editing couple of registry entries. Susan Bradley has mentioned various hot-fixes which will fix most of the problems related to Windows Vista at the time of resumption from sleep or hibernation mode.

In the last post I explained that when and how one can create a Marked As Final Document so that no one else can edit it. In this post, I’ll explain that how you may edit the Marked as Final document with ease.

1. Open the document in any other Document editor (I’ll recommend Openoffice.org).

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Microsoft Office Word 2007 has the feature which marks the documents as final and makes the document un-editable. Lets learn how we can create a document as Marked as Final and that in which case we may need it :

The case where we may need it :

* A document which has the terms and conditions.
* A contract with you client.
* Some plan on which you are working with your colleagues and the document can be marked to show the final plan.
* Human resource department may use it to circulate final policies to the employees with satisfaction that employees will receive the document as it is.
* and more situations which you may come across…..

How we can mark the document as final :

The steps are pretty simple and you just have to make 2 clicks to achieve this task…

* Click on the Microsoft Office 2007 Logo on top.

* Go to Prepare
* Click on Mark as Final
* That’s it.

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