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Fixing Adobe Photoshop CS3 FLEXNet Licensing Issue !

Photoshop LogoIf you use Adobe Creative Suite 3 and if it stops working asking you to uninstall and then reinstall the application citing some license issue as shown below:

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Licensing for this product has stopped working.
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You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for help.
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OK
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Don't panic as you won't necessarily need to re-install the application suite as suggested by the error, it could be a simple FLEXNet Licensing Service issue, which can easily be resolved as described next.

Google Chrome Task Manager

Google Chrome Beta is finally available for public downloading, overall the browser seems quite impressive and has potential to become the Firefox killer, One of the most interesting feature not found in any other web-browser is its multi-threading capabilities with inbuilt Google Chrome Task Manager utility letting developers check memory, cpu and bandwidth usage of their webpages.

Chrome Task Manager
How To Launch Chrome Task Manager

Another cool extension to the Chrome Task Manager is comparison of memory usage by different web-browsers currently loaded in memory accessible via typing

How To Get ‘No to All’ Functionality While Copying Files in Windows XP

Windows provides an very handy "Yes To All" option to overwrite all files without prompting for each while copying a bunch of files from one location to another, but there exist no "No To All" option allowing copying of only the files that don’t already exist there, you will have to manually press “No” for every file to skip overwriting, However if you Hold SHIFT and click the No button it will act as "No To All" functionality and windows will not overwrite any file and won't bother you ask

BurnAware - The Best Free Nero CD/DVD Burner Alternative

BurnAware LogoThe most popular CD/DVD writing software - Nero Burning ROM has evolved a lot from being a simple CD/DVD burner application to a full-fledged all-in-one optical media authoring solution, resulting in adding a lot of bloat and lots of other applications and features that you’ll never really use, so if you are looking to get rid of Nero bloatware and looking for a free, fast and simple alternative to Nero - BurnAware Free is your answer, the free CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning application is pretty much similar to Nero and comes in three versions - Free, Home & Professional, the free version allows you to burn data, audio, and video CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs pretty much sufficing everything you’d ever need.

Free DC/DVD/Blu-Ray Burner

Get Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Express For Free

BackupPeriodic data backups are crucial for anyone using computer on regular basis, Backing up your data is like an insurance, you never have to worry if data corruption disaster strikes. Norton Ghost have been an all time favorite amongst PC users for making backup clone images of their Hard-Disks or partitions for restoring at a later time when disaster strikes, but if you can't afford Norton Ghost here is a little gift from "Paragon" - a well-known software company, Paragon is giving away "Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Express" free for personal use.

Paragon Drive Backup 9.0

The simple and easy to use software lets you backup and recover entire hard disk or separate partitions with ease without asking bewildering questions, Drive Backup Express make use of Paragon’s Hot Backup ® technology - allowing you to be productive and use your PC during backups. The software supports a wide variety of storage devices including Parallel ATA (IDE), Serial ATA (SATA), SCSI HDD, USB 1.x/2.0, IEEE 1394 (FireWire) and even PC card storage devices, the wide-variety of file-system support includes FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1), Linux Ext2FS, Linux Ext3FS, Linux Swap and HPFS.

Free AddOn To Automatically Backup Your Firefox Environment To Box.net

FeBeFew days ago my Firefox profile got corrupted and resulted in loss of essential data, Loosing your browser's saved passwords, bookmarks, settings and customizations can be very frustrating if a lot depends on it, While searching for Firefox profile backup solutions, I came across FEBE - A simple to use, highly customizable Firefox Environment Backup Extension, unlike other Firefox backup and restore solutions FEBE lets you automatically backup your browser data of choice to Box.Net free online storage service, allowing you to easily synchronize your office and home browsers.

Firefox Backup

Show Classic Menus On Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon Interface

The new Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon interface can be hard to get hold off initially while migrating from older office versions, and it becomes very frustrating trying searching for features on the unfamiliar Ribbon interface, Sadly, Microsoft does not include any option for reverting back to the classic menu, but thanks to independent software vendors solutions do exist to use classic menu's in Microsoft Office 2007.

Microsoft Office 2003 Classic Menu

Simple Tricks To Copy Windows Error Messages For Troubleshooting

Searching internet is one of the most easiest way to troubleshoot error messages, Microsoft Windows allows you to neatly copy text from any Error/Warning/Information/Confirmation message box to clipboard by simply using the standard copy Ctrl + C key combination on the active message box, the copied text can then be pasted on notepad and can be searched for on internet.

Error Message
Copy Error Message

But not all application error dialogs allow users to copy text this easy, this is where GrabTxt comes in, GarbTxt is a free tool to capture text from any window with ease, simply drag the 'X' button to the desired window and the text gets captured, the captured text can then be copied to the clipboard or selected text used to search for details on Google or Live.com with the provided shortcut buttons.

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