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Firefox released the Firefox 6 recently. Since it is a major version upgrade, some of the Plugins, Add-ons and Extensions went incompatible. Google Toolbar for Firefox is one of them. Google Toolbar is one of my favorite extensions for Firefox, and I frequently use it for bookmarking pages. However, since my Firefox automatically upgraded to version 6, the Google Toolbar vanished from its place.I wanted Google Toolbar to compatible with Firefox 5 and Firefox 6.I found a solution for that after few Google search sessions. It is now working perfectly like before and all the features are kept. Here is my solution.

The Visual Studio 2010 Help-About dialog box and the Splash Screen show Registered Username and Registered Organization as Microsoft. This could cause problem when you create a new project. The projects create an AssemblyInfo file to save the information about the Owner and the Company. This might show Microsoft as the company and you wanted to get your company name. Splash Screen

I got following error while trying to retrieve data from a SQL table into a datagridview. Table contains 1000s of data and while retrieving I have to process some data also. ContextSwitchDeadlock was detected Message: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x159bc0 to COM context 0x1598e0 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping wait or processing a very long running operation without pumping Windows messages. This situation generally has a negative performance impact and may even lead to the application becoming non responsive or memory usage accumulating continually over time. To avoid this problem, all single threaded apartment (STA) threads should use pumping wait primitives (such as CoWaitForMultipleHandles) and routinely pump messages during long running operations. After goggling for about 1 hour I came up with a solution which makes the deadlock detection disable.   Step 1 obtain the

Microsoft has now officially released Service Pack 1 Final ( KB976932 ) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The RTM of SP1 is available for Free to everyone but validation is required in order to download it. The Service Pack for Windows 7 doesn’t bring major new features to Windows 7 . If you have installed SP1 Release Candidate (RC) build, you need to uninstall it before installing the RTM. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will help you Keep your PCs supported and up-to-date. Get ongoing updates to the Windows 7 platform. Easily deploy cumulative updates at a single time. Meet your users' demands for greater business mobility. Provide a comprehensive set of virtualization innovations. Provide an easier Service Pack deployment model for better IT efficiency. Download Links Download SP1 32-bit (x86) Download SP1 64-bit (x64)

Recently Facebook added an SSL feature to protect our data.You can make your Facebook profile more secure by turning this option on, and here’s how to do it. Enabling Facebook’s SSL Feature Go to Account –> Account Settings from the menu over there on the right.

One of the most common stability problems in graphics is when the system appears completely "frozen" or "hung" while processing an end-user command or operation. We generally wait a few seconds and then reboot the system by pressing the Power button. Usually the graphics processing unit (GPU) is "busy" processing intensive graphical operations, typically during gameplay. This results in nothing being updated on the screen, thus appearing to the user that the system is frozen.

64bit Checker is a small tool that will show you what version of Windows is installed on your computer, is it 64bit or 32bit version of Windows and is your processor capable of running 64bit operating systems. Features Shows if your computer is running a 32bit or 64bit version of Windows Detects whether your processor supports a 64bit operating systems (if you are not sure that you can install 64bit operating system on your computer) Copy report information to clipboard, or save in text or html file Download