By default, Ubuntu installs with Firefox as the default web browser. However, you can easily install Google Chrome and make it the default web browser, if you prefer.

Download Google Chrome from

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html.

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By default, Windows Explorer does not display files with the Hidden attribute. However, there is an easy way of showing hidden files and folders in Windows. Hidden files and folders will appear dimmed to indicate they are not typical items and they are usually program or system files that should not be deleted or changed.

NOTE: In addition to the Hidden files and folders option discussed in this post, hidden files and folders can be viewed when using search, or using the “dir /a” (without the quotes) command in the command prompt window.

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An Ubuntu Live CD has many useful purposes and is handy when installed on a USB flash drive. UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on both Windows and Linux.

You can use a Live Linux USB drive created with UNetbootin to manage partitions, repair, backup, and recover your system, remove malware from Windows installs, and recover or reset Windows passwords, among other tasks.

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Creating a password reset disk is a good way to protect yourself against forgetting your password. It allows you to easily reset your password without having to use third-party boot environment CDs and tools. We have previously written about how to reset your password in Ubuntu (Reset a Forgotten Password in Ubuntu). Now, we will discuss how to create a password reset disk and use it to reset your password in Windows 7.

Microsoft suggests that you create a password reset disk shortly after creating the user account and assigning the password. That way, you know your current password with which you can create the password reset disk. You only need to create a password reset disk for your Windows XP logon password once. You can change your logon password as many times as you want and you can still use the same password reset disk to reset your password if you forget it.

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There are extensions available for Firefox that allow you to copy URLs and web page titles in various formats. We have written about the Copy as HTML Link extension (Copying Text From a Webpage as an HTML Link in Firefox) and the CoLT extension (Copying Links in Multiple Formats in Firefox).

What about doing the same thing in Internet Explorer? We found an extension for Internet Explorer that allows you to copy the page title and URL of the current web page to the clipboard.

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At some point, you may have started to create a table in Word 2007, got a good amount of the table done, and then discovered you want to make your columns into rows and your rows into columns, basically turning your table 90 degrees, to better display your data.

Unfortunately, there is no way to easily transpose tables in Word 2007 without creating a new table and moving your data manually into it. However, you can transpose rows and columns in Excel. In this post, we will use both Word 2007 and Excel 2007 to transpose a table created in Word 2007.

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