svchost provides a shared service process on Windows computers allowing a number of services to run under it in-order to reduce resource consumption, while this approach is smart saving system resources this makes diagnosing and rectifying issues tough as you need to dig out the exact service running under svchost.exe process causing issues.
One of the most common issue with svchost.exe is it consuming constant high CPU usage in background, the same issue occurred on my computer where svchost.exe was constantly using 40% processor cycles in computer idle position on my 4 Core CPU. The solution to this involved identifying the culprit service running behind this process and disabling it as demonstrated after the jump.
While the official announcement of Mozilla Firefox 5 Final release is still not made, as happened in the past the Firefox 5 Final release build is already available on official Mozilla FTP servers, open to public access. The official scheduled date for Firefox 5 launch is after two days on 21st June, but the download is now online so nobody is stopping us to enjoy it before release date.
Direct download links for Firefox 5 Windows, Linux and Mac versions, change-log and a memory usage comparison to Firefox 4 posted after the jump.
If you read this blog regularly multi-host download services should not be new to you, we have already reviewed and done twogiveaways with popular unihoster service Zevera, and today is another chance for our readers to win a free premium account - this time we have 30 one month, 20 three months, 10 six months and 1 full-year premium account to giveaway providing ample opportunities to win a free account.
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Father's Day is coming, and Simpo Technologies have started a free giveaway promotion on Facebook to celebrate. Simpo PDF to Word allows users to convert read-only PDF files to editable Word files, the utility does the job perfectly preserving the original layout, graphs, tables and text without requiring users to install Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat or Reader.
The software is regularly priced at $29.95 but can be grabbed for free under this limited period promo from Thursday on 16th to next Monday on 20th, June.
While computer status messages are meant to help users figure out any issues, things get very confusing many times and this is what happened when my local print jobs started failing. Surprisingly, print jobs were getting added to the "Printer Spooler" queued as "Local Downlevel Document" but were not getting printed, luckily I had made a single change to my existing printer properties before this started and reverting back to the earlier settings fixed the issue. The solution is posted after the jump.
If you admired the awesome metro tile based Windows 8 user interface preview video here is some exciting stuff for you. Based on the popular desktop customization platform "Rainmeter" "Omnimo" is not just a theme, but a complete super cool looking Windows 8 Metro UI inspired multifunctional interactive desktop - complete with tons of plugins and customizations options.
This is not something you would like to skip without giving a try, download links with some more awesome desktop composition screenshots after the jump.
Many times you must have faced the “Windows was unable to complete the format” error while trying to format usb disk drives and memory-cards, free windows utility Any Drive Formatter lets you get past this error and format your portable storage media the easy way on Windows 7, Vista, and XP computers.
If you read this blog regularly multi-host download services should not be new to you, we have already reviewed and done 
While computer status messages are meant to help users figure out any issues, things get very confusing many times and this is what happened when my local print jobs started failing. Surprisingly, print jobs were getting added to the "Printer Spooler" queued as "Local Downlevel Document" but were not getting printed, luckily I had made a single change to my existing printer properties before this started and reverting back to the earlier settings fixed the issue. The solution is posted after the jump.
