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http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Uninstallers/RemoveWGA.shtmlRemoveWGA description
A small utility that enables you to remove the Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications tool
RemoveWGA will enable you to easily remove the
Microsoft "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool, which is calling home and connect to MS servers every time you boot. Futures updates of this notification tool will (officialy) setup the connection rate to once every two weeks.Once the WGA Notification tool has checked your OS and has confirmed you had a legit
copy, there is no decent point or reason to check it again and again every boot. Moreover, connecting to Microsoft brings security issue for corporate networks, and privacy issues for everyone. It is also unclear which
information are transmitted (Microsoft published an official answer, but an individual study brought some questions). All of that, along the fact that Microsoft used deceptive ways to make you install this tool (it was told you it was an urgent
security update, whereas it is a new installation giving you no extra security) makes me calling this tool a spyware.Also, Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications is different than Windows Genuine Advantage Validation. RemoveWGA only removes the notification part, phoning home, and does not touch the Validation part.Here are some key features of "RemoveWGA":· Tell you if the WGA notification tool is active on your system· Allows you to remove the WGA notification tool from your system· Accept the "-silent" command line parameter to silently check if the WGA notification tool is active on your system, and popup only if it is found (usefull for checking automatically at startup for instance)Note: Some antivirus and antispyware programs flag RemoveWGA as being infected/malware, although the application is perfectly safe and does not pose a threat to your system. This is called a 'false positive'. The term false positive is used when antivirus software wrongly classifies an innocuous ( inoffensive ) file as a virus. The incorrect detection may be due to heuristics or to an incorrect virus signature in a database. [Similar problems can occur with antitrojan or antispyware software.]
http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp Free, Fast and easy tool for removing duplicate items from Outlook folders
With ODIR it's a snap to clean your Outlook folders by removing all duplicates. ODIR removes duplicates from Contacts; Calendar; Tasks; Notes and Email folders.
Using ODIR is very easy: select a folder and click the button Remove Duplicate Items. ODIR scans the selected folder for duplicates and MOVES all duplicates found to a subfolder ODIR_duplicate items. ODIR recognizes an item as a duplicate if all of the following properties match those of another item in the same folder:
Contact items:first name, last name, company name and email address
Appointment items:subject, location, start date and end date
Task items:subject, start date, due date and status
Note items: contents of the note (Body property) and color
E-mail or Post items:- received emails: the internet message ID (this is a unique identifier for each email received)- sent emails: email subject and the time the email is sent (PR_CLIENT_SUBMIT_TIME)- unsent emails: email subject only
ODIR 1.4 is FREE and doesn't contain Spyware or Adds!
http://www.vaita.com/Bin/ODIR.exe
How to restore or update your iPod/iPhone:After downloading the desired firmware below, you can shift-click (PC) or option-click (Mac) the Restore or Update buttons in iTunes. A file dialog will open and let you choose the downloaded ipsw-file. Note: Your browser may change the ipsw-file into a zip-file. In that case, just rename it to end in .ipsw and iTunes will accept it.
If you don't know what iPod or specific iPod generation you got,
click here.
http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/