How to make visible all your forgotten passwords hidden behind asterisk

If you use a lot of online services it also means that you have got a lot of passwords and usernames to remember. Aware of this issue, all Internet browsers have got a special feature which, as soon as you login your email account for example,  prompt you to save password and username so that, next time you will use the service again, the browser will fill in the login interface for you. However, while the username is fully displayed, the password is hidden by asterisks. Now, if for any reason you don’t remember such a password you won’t have any way to recover it. Usually, to get it back, you will have to buy a special piece of software. Recently, I have found an interesting, amazing piece of code which will make visible all your forgotten passwords hidden behind asterisk in your browser…in a couple of seconds and without spending a dime!

The piece of code I am going to show you works with all Internet browsers including: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari etc. Here is the procedure to follow to reveal your passwords:

1. Open your browser.
2. Go to the Web page containing the login in form where you saved your password.
3. Copy and paste the following piece of code to your browser address bar:
4. javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = “”; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j<F.length; ++j) { f = F[j]; for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i) { if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == “password”) s += f[i].value + “n”; } } if (s) alert(“Passwords in forms on this page:” + s); else alert(“There are no passwords in forms on this page.”);})();
5. Press Enter.
6. As soon as you press Enter, the browser will display a window containing the password!

What is PDF format?

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format proprietary to Adobe Systems for representing two-dimensional documents in a device independent and resolution independent fixed-layout document format. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2D document (and, with the advent of Acrobat 3D, embedded 3D documents) that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics that compose the document. PDF files do not encode information that is specific to the application software, hardware, or operating system used to create or view the document. This feature ensures that a valid PDF will render exactly the same regardless of its origin or destination (but depending on font availability).

Anyone may create applications that read and write PDF files without having to pay royalties to Adobe Systems; Adobe holds a number of patents relating to the PDF format and claims that it is an open standard, licensing them on a royalty-free basis for use in developing software that complies with its PDF specification.[1]

PDF files are most appropriately used to encode the exact look of a document in a device-independent way. While the PDF format can describe very simple one page documents, it may also be used for many pages, complex documents that use a variety of different fonts, graphics, colors, and images.

Readers for many platforms are available, such as Xpdf, Foxit and Adobe’s own Adobe Reader; there are also front-ends for many platforms to Ghostscript. PDF readers are generally free. There are many software options for creating PDFs, including the PDF printing capability built in to Mac OS X, the multi-platform OpenOffice, numerous PDF print drivers for Microsoft Windows, and Adobe Acrobat itself. There is also specialized software for editing PDF files.

Proper subsets of PDF have been, or are being, standardized under ISO for several constituencies:

PDF/X for the printing and graphic arts as ISO 15930 (working in ISO TC130)
PDF/A for archiving in corporate/government/library/etc environments as ISO 19005 (work done in ISO TC171)
PDF/E for exchange of engineering drawings (work done in ISO TC171)
PDF/UA for universally accessible PDF files

PowerPoint Tips & Tricks

Top TEN Tips For PowerPoint

Tip 1: To links presentations to the e-mail address

• Select the object (text or graphic) you want to turn into a hyperlink.
• Right-click the object and choose Action Settings from the pop-up menu.
• From the Action Settings dialog box displayed, click Hyperlink to: and pick the URL… from the drop-down list box.
• From the Hyperlink To URL dialog box pop-up, type your email address into the text box using this format:
  mailto: address@domain.com (Example: mailto:steven@yahoo.com)
• Click OK twice to close the window.

Tip 2: To change PowerPoint’s default file location

• From the Tools menu, then click Options.
• Click the Save tab.
• In the Default file location text box, enter the complete drive and path to the folder where you’d like to store your presentations. Make sure that the folder has already been created before you do this.
• Click OK.

Tip 3: To tweak the placement of a graphic

• Select the graphic or text box.
• Press and hold down the Ctrl key.
• Use the arrow keys to move graphic or text up, down, right, or left.

Tip 4: To embed TrueType fonts

• Create you presentation as normal.
• From the File menu, click Save As command.
• From the Save As dialog box, click on the Tools icon drop down menu and select Save Options.
• From the Save Options dialog box, select the Embed TrueType fonts command.
• Click OK.

Note: This can make your presentation to display the current font even when used on a different PC that does not have the fonts you have used installed locally.

Tip 5: To jump to a particular slide in PowerPoint slide show

• Just type the number of the slide and press the Enter key.
  OR
• Right-click the screen, point to Go, point to By Title, then click the title text of the slide you want.

Tip 6: To compress and optimize presentation (ppt) to decrease the file size

• Open your PowerPoint presentation
• Click File Menu and then Save as.
• From the save dialog box, click the Tools drop down menu and select Compress Pictures.
• From the Compress Pictures dialog box, select All pictures in document.
• In the Change resolution section, select Web/Screen unless you need to be able to print the presentation in high quality.
• In the Options section, select Compress pictures and Delete cropped areas of pictures.
• Click OK.
• Confirm that you want to Compress Pictures (if the dialog appears).
• Save the presentation to a new file name.
• Click Save.

Tip 7: To Slide Shows in a mini-window

• Hold down the Ctrl key while you click the Slide Show icon.
• PowerPoint displays your slide show in a small window rather than full screen.
• When you find something you’d like to change, click back in the main PowerPoint window.
• The screen show window minimizes itself onto the Windows Taskbar.
• Do the necessary changes then click the Slide Show icon again to resume your mini-show with your most recent changes in place.

Tip 8: To enter the text – Fast way

• Start a new presentation or insert a new slide into an existing one.
• Press Ctrl+Enter, this automatically selects the Title placeholder for editing. Enter your title text.
• Press Ctrl+Enter again, this selects the Body Text placeholder for editing. Enter your body text or bullet points.
• Press Ctrl+Enter again, since there are no more text placeholders on the current slide, this creates a new slide and selects the Title placeholder for editing, so you can begin entering the new title text immediately.

Tip 9: To get additional guides

• From the View menu, click Guides.
• Click and hold down the Ctrl key while you drag an existing guide to a new position.

Tip 10: To remove all the rehearsed timings recorded before

• Switch to Slide Sorter view.
• Press Ctrl+A to select all of the slides.
• From the Slide Show menu, click Slide Transition.
• From the Slide Transition dialog box displayed, in the Advance section, set the Automatically After to zero.
• Click Apply to All button to remove timings from all of your slides at once.

Some Other Tips

Save Your Fonts with Your Presentation

If you’re preparing a presentation that you plan to distribute to others, be sure that you check this option by clicking on the Tools button in the File/Save As dialog box.  This will work for most TrueType fonts on the Windows platform.

Saving Your Toolbar Configurations

If you like to customize your UI, move toolbars around, configure toolbars, etc, then you’ll want to know that all this information is stored in c:\windows\application data\microsoft\powerpoint\ppt.pcb

By copying this file, you can move your customizations to other machines.

Displaying Keyboard Shortcuts in Tool Tips

If you’d like to see the available keyboard shortcuts for menus, commands, and toolbar buttons, go to Tools/Customize, click on the Options tab, and click on “show shortcut keys in screen tips”.

Getting Rid of Short Menus

Forgetting user reaction to this feature when it was introduced in Word years ago, the Office team decided to try it again.  Unfortunately, it’s still annoying.  To see all of your options when you click on menus, go to Tools/Customize, click on the Options tab, and uncheck “menus show recently used commands”.

Preview Fonts in the Toolbar

If you’d like to see previews of the actual fonts in the font selection of the formatting toolbar, go to Tools/Customize, click on the Options tab, and click “List font names in their font”, click Close.

Making Auto-Fit Text Stop Auto-Fitting

Turn this feature off by going to Tools/Options, click on the Edit tab, and uncheck “autofit text to text placeholder”, click OK.

Getting Rid of Tri-Pane View

Unfortunately there is no way to permanently avoid this improvement, but you can quickly get rid of it by holding down the CTRL key when you click on the Slide View button.

Using Ctrl-Drag to Copy

You can quickly make a copy of any object by holding down the CTRL key while you drag on the object.  You will then “drag off” a new copy.

Making Slides Print Correctly

PowerPoint has certain defaults to determine how it prints each object on the page.  You can see over-ride these defaults.  Go to View/Black and White; this will show you a gray-scale preview of how your slide will print.  To change the print settings for any given object, right-click on it, then click “Black and White”, and then choose the appropriate print option for that object.  Master objects can be selected by going to the Master page View.

Preview Slide Show Effects

While editing a presentation, hold down the CTRL key while clicking the slide show view button; this will open a tiny preview window showing that slide in slide show mode.

Setting the Default Text Style

If you want to change the style of the text that appears when you type things that aren’t the title or the slide body, do the following:
Make sure no objects are selected.
From the Format menu, select Font. Make all the changes that you want there, and click OK.
From that point on, new text will be created in that style.

To Set the formatting for the title or slide body objects, go to the Slide Master and format these objects on the master.

Using Different Backgrounds within one Presentation

Users of PowerPoint 2000 and lower will only have two background designs automatically supplied with the Masters (counting both the Slide Master and the Title Master).  However, you can have any design you want on any slide. From the Format menu, select Background. Check the box that says “omit background items” and this will make the slide ignore the Slide Master’s design. You are now free to add whatever design you want to this slide. If you want to do this to many slides at once, go to the Slide Sorter, select the slides, and then use the Format menu command. Remember though that if you choose to do something like put a photographic background on many of your slides instead of doing it once on the Master, that your file size may increase dramatically.

PowerPoint 2002 supports multiple background masters.

Using More than One Guide

If you like using guides, but wish there were more, you can create additional Guides by simply holding down the CTRL key while dragging on an existing Guide. This will create a new guide. To get rid of guides, just drag them off the edge of the slide.

Using Guides to Measure

Make the Guides visible by using View/Guides.  Then, hold down the SHIFT key while you click-and-hold a guide; the tooltip for the guide will display 0:00.  As you move the guide, the distance the guide covers from the beginning of the drag will be displayed in the units of your ruler.  In this way you can measure distances between objects, place guides at specific places, etc.

Creating Pages with Slides and Descriptive Text

If you want to create printable pages that have notes or descriptive text associated with each slide, PowerPoint has a feature designed to do just this called Notes Pages, or Speaker’s Notes (depending on which version you’re using). To view the Notes page for any slide, go to the View menu and select Notes Pages. You will see an image of your slide there, and a placeholder for adding your script, notes, or any other text you wish. You can cut-and-paste text from Word here if you like. To print these pages, bring up the Print dialog, and at the bottom of the dialog where it says “Print What:”, select Notes Pages. These pages were originally designed to be used as audience hand outs (with space for the audience to take notes) but were also used by many as speaker’s notes: the text block would have the script of the presentation, to be used by the speaker, or for sales binders to educated sales people.

Making Presentation Files Smaller

Prior to PowerPoint 97, there was no internal file compression code inside of PowerPoint, and files could get pretty big quickly. The most common cause of large files is the addition of large bitmaps. PowerPoint 97 compresses these bitmaps, but previous versions do not. To keep your presentations as small as you can, try reducing the resolution of your bitmaps, which will bring their size down tremendously. For viewing on screen, the bitmaps don’t need to be more than 96 dpi; they won’t print nicely until they’re up around 150 or higher, but the screen always displays at 96 dpi, so if the primary viewing medium is the screen, there’s no point in having the bitmaps be a higher resolution. Also, the bitmap format can make a big difference to your file sizes. JPEG and PNG both have good internal compression code. GIF has some, but not as good as JPEG. BMP files are the largest; TIFF files will also be very large.

Sometimes, as you’re working on a presentation, you’ll notice that the file seems to get bigger for no reason.  To get rid of this “bloating”, save the file using “File/Save As” and give the file a new name.  This can reduce the file size up to 50%.

Building Presentations for Distribution to Others

If you’re making a PowerPoint presentation that you intend to distribute to lots of different people, here are some important things to watch out for that will cause problems:

1. Stick with the fonts that come installed with Windows; Fancy fonts that appear on your machine will cause problems if everyone else doesn’t have them.

2. Avoid embedding sounds and videos: these will not go from Mac to Windows gracefully, and you have to be very careful about how you insert the files in order to get them to “travel” properly. See the FAQ section for more information on this.

3. Try looking at the presentation on a different platform (Mac vs Windows); be prepared for some visual changes in your file–the version or platform may not support some of the features you’ve put in, so be sure to sanity check your file on several different machines and versions BEFORE you distribute it!

Easily Changing from Caps to Lower Case (or Vice Versa)

If you have text that is in the wrong case, select the text, and then click Shift+F3 until it changes to the case style that you like. Clicking Shift+F3 toggles the text case between ALL CAPS, lower case, and Initial Capital styles. You’ll be surprised how often you use this once you get the hang of it!

Nudging Objects

You can use the arrow keys to move objects very small distances. This is a big win for those laptop users who no longer have mice. Select the object, then use your arrow keys. Each press of the key will move the object on “grid unit” (1/12th of an inch, don’t ask why); if you hold down the ALT key while nudging, or if you have the grid turned off, you can move the objects one pixel at a time.

Saving Across Multiple Diskettes

From the File menu, select Pack and Go. This wizard will compress your PowerPoint presentation and copy the file onto as many floppies as are necessary.  Be sure to format a bunch of floppies BEFORE you start the process, and make sure they are empty.  This feature requires PowerPoint 95 or higher.

Subliminal Messages

These can be pretty hysterical in the right circumstances. Create a text object. With the text object selected, click on the Animation Effects button on the tool bar (the one that looks like a yellow star), and then click on the “flash once” button. Go to slide show and see the message quickly flash and then disappear.

Editing Drawings

Anything you draw with the pencil tool, you can edit. To get the object into “points mode”, either double-click on the object, or select it then hit the Enter key. You will then see points at every vertex, which you can move. You can add points by holding down the shift key and clicking, you can subtract points by holding down the ALT key while clicking, and you can of course just drag points around.

Soft Shadows

You can create “soft” shadows for square or round objects that sit on a solid color background. Make a copy of the object, then change its fill to be shaded from black to the background color, with the shading set with black going from the center out to the background color at the edges. Make this object about 150% bigger than the original object, and put it behind the object. This will give you the effect of “soft” shadows.

Selecting Small Objects

Hit the ESCAPE key to insure that nothing is current selected, then repeatedly hit the TAB key, which will toggle you through a selection of all of the objects on a slide. This is useful for selecting very small objects, or objects that are covered up by other larger objects.

PowerPoint System Requirements

Mac PowerPoint 1.0 Original Macintosh or better System 1.0 or higher 512K RAM
Mac PowerPoint 2.0 Original Macintosh or better System 4.1 or higher 1 MB RAM	Windows PowerPoint 2.0 286 PC or higher Windows 3.0 1 MB RAM
Mac PowerPoint 3.0 Macintosh Plus or better System 7 or higher 4 MB RAM	Windows PowerPoint 3.0 286 PC or higher Windows 3.1 2 MB RAM
Mac PowerPoint 4.0 68020 Mac or better System 7 or higher 8 MB RAM	Windows PowerPoint 4.0 386 PC or higher Windows 3.1 8 MB RAM
	Windows PowerPoint 95 (7.0) 386 DX PC or higher Windows 95 6 MB RAM
Mac PowerPoint 98 (8.0) PowerPC or better 16 MB RAM	Windows PowerPoint 97 (8.0) 486 PC or higher 8 MB RAM
Mac PowerPoint 2001 (9.0) Power PC or better, at least 120 MHz 48 MB RAM minimum Mac OS 8.5 or higher	Windows PowerPoint 2000 (9.0) Pentium, 75 MHz+ Windows 95 or higher 20 MB RAM
	Windows PowerPoint 2002 (10.0) Pentium III processor Windows 98 or higher 40 MB Ram

Bhuvan – India’s Google Earth

ISRO launched the beta version of its web-based 3-D satellite imagery tool, Bhuvan, on August 12, 2009. Bhuvan will offer superior imagery of Indian locations compared to other Virtual Globe software with spatial resolutions ranging from 10 m to 100 m. Locations can be viewed from different perspectives and will allow for the measurement of distances. The Bhuvan portal is designed to run on slow Internet connections.

Features

• Bhuvan allows users to access, explore and visualize 2D and 3D image data along with rich thematic information on soil, wasteland, water resources etc in the Indian subcontinent.
• It displays multi-resolution, multi-sensor, multi-temporal image data.
• Users can superpose administrative boundaries of choice on images as required.
• It allows visualization of AWS(Automatic Weather Stations) data in a graphic view and use tabular weather data of user choice .
• Fly to locations (Enables users to fly from the current location directly to the selected location)
• It features a Heads-Up Display(HUD) navigation controls (Tilt slider, north indicator, opacity, compass ring, zoom slider)
• Allows navigation using the 3D view Pop-up menu (Fly-in, Fly out, jump in, jump around, view point)
• 3D Fly through (3D view to fly to locations, objects in the terrain, and navigate freely using the mouse or keyboard)
• Drawing 2D objects (Text labels, polylines, polygons, rectangles, 2D arrows, circles, ellipse)
• Drawing 3D Objects (placing of expressive 3D models, 3D polygons, boxes)
• Snapshot creation (copies the 3D view to a floating window and allows to save to a external file)
• Measurement tools (Horizontal distance, aerial distance, vertical distance, measure area)
• Shadow Analysis (it sets the sun position based on the given time creating shadows and effects the lighting on the terrain)

Comparison

Google Earth	Bhuvan
Zoom levels up to 200 mt	Zoom levels up to 10 mt
Single layer information	Multi-layer information
Images upgraded every 4 years	Images upgraded every year
No alternate viewing options	Options of viewing on different dates
Uses international satellites	Uses Indian satellites

How to fix error 0xc0000005 in google chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. It is fast and supposed to be stable. But its not working with SEP application control.As a matter of fact, Chrome may return you the following error: “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005).Click on OK to terminate the application”. This kind of error affects all windows operating system including Windows Vista (SP1, Ultimate), Windows XP3 or Windows XP2. Most of the time the message 0xc0000005 is triggered by Symantec Endpoint Protection.

1. Back up the registry on an affected system.
2. Click Start.
3. Click Run.
4. In the Search bar type regedit and press Enter.
5. Look for the following key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ Services\SysPlant
6. Locate the subkey Start and
7. Change the value to 4 to disable the drivers.
8. Reboot the system to commit the changes.

Another way to  fix this problem first you will need to find all of the shortcuts for the program including the one on your Quick Launch task bar. Right click on the shortcuts and go to properties.

Add the argument –no-sandbox at the end of the Target Path for Google Chrome shortcut.

After adding the argument in the Target Path line, click OK to save the changes.  then use  Google Chrome internet browser and it should work fine.

Change Excel Column name from A,B,C.. to 1,2,3..

If you want to change  microsoft excel column A, B, C, D …  to 1, 2, 3, 4, ….then follow the following procedure.

This Procedure is different in In Office 97-2003 and in Office 2007.

In Office 2003, go to Tools -> Options.

Click on the General Tab.

Under the settings, Check or uncheck R1C1 reference style to use it or to change it to A1 reference style.

In Office 2007, Click the Office button and click Excel Options which you will find at the end near Exit Excel.

Go to Formulas tab and under Working with formulas, Check or uncheck R1C1 reference style to use it or to change it to A1 reference style.

What is Windows7

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the working name for the next version of the Windows operating system, which will be the successor of Windows Vista. It is expected that Windows 7 will be released in 2010. Windows 7 is expected to use less electricity more effectively, not be as much of a “resource hog” as Vista, and contain elements for better integration with mobile devices and PC synchronization.
The new operating system will ship in client and server versions. The client version will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit editions. The server version, also called Windows 2008(Windows Server 7) will be available only in a 64-bit edition.

Windows 7 is expected to incorporate a new version of Media Center as well as support for multiple video adapters. Other anticipated new features include:

* Gadgets integrated into Windows Explorer
* Improved network connections
* Integrated XML Paper Specification (XPS) Essentials Pack
* Enhanced Control Panel
* Enhanced Calculator program with statistics and unit conversion capabilities
* Ability to store Internet Explorer settings on a Windows Live account
* Updated version of the Paint program
* Updated version of the WordPad program
* A new Mapping program
* A new Virtual Piano program

Microsoft has confirmed that there will be a beta version of the Windows 7 upgrade advisor where users can check to see if their computers are capable of running Windows 7.

Hardware requirements

Microsoft has published their recommended specifications for a system running Windows 7, which are much the same as those for premium editions of Vista.

Windows 7 hardware recommended specifications

How to Install Internet Explorer 7.0 Bypassing Genuine Windows Validation…

Internet Explorer 7.0 is the long awaited tabbed web browser by Microsoft. Nearly four years after the release of Internet Explorer 6.0, in the face of growing competition from Mozilla’s Firefox, Microsoft has finally given the old IE platform a facelift. Optimized design along with new cool interface, favorites centre, search box, RSS feeds and most importantly easy to use tabbed browsing are the exclusive features of this new internet explorer.

You must have Windows XP Service Pack-2 (SP2) in order to install Internet Explorer 7.0. But still you will face a problem while installing this new Internet Explorer if your copy of Windows XP is not a genuine (non-pirated) one, since IE 7.0 installation requires genuine windows validation!!! So what to do??? Don’t worry… There are some tricky steps through which you can install IE 7.0 even in your pirated copy of windows XP bypassing the genuine windows validation. You just have to follow the following steps one by one:

1. Download Internet Explorer 7.0 installer from the Microsoft site. You have to choose Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) as your operating system. Remember you can’t install IE 7.0 if service pack 2.0 is not installed in your operating system.
2. Extract the downloaded Internet Explorer setup file (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe) using Winzip to a directory (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu).
3. Download the patched iecustom.dll and then copy-paste it to the update folder (IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enuupdate) and click yes when asked to overwrite.
4. Now, download normaliz.exe . Then copy this exe file and paste it in your “c:” drive.
5. Run ‘update.exe’ in the update folder (not iesetup.exe!!!). At the end, you have to choose ‘Restart Later’ (not Restart Now) option to finish the running process of the exe file.
6. Now you have to download normaliz.dll and then copy-paste it to “c:windowssystem32” directory (in order to prevent problems with the file not being found after the installation). And then reboot/restart your pc.
7. After rebooting your pc, you may face a problem with a file called normaliz.dll that can not be found by explorer.exe. If you’re having this problem, you will find your desktop blank.(If you are not facing this problem then just go to step 8) In order to fix this problem, you have to do the following things one by one:
   1. Press ctrl-alt-del to go to the task manager.
   2. Go to “File -> New Task (Run…)” in the task manager.
   3. Type: ‘C:normaliz.exe’ (excluding quotation marks) in the ‘open’ field and then press the ‘ok’ button.
   4. ‘WinZip Self-Extractor – normalize.exe’ window should popped up and then press the ‘unzip’ button.
   5. Reboot your pc and yahoo!!! now you can see your desktop contents!!!.
8. Now you have to run ‘xmllitesetup.exe’ in the update folder. This step is very important, because somehow if you forget to run this ‘xmllitesetup.exe’ , IE 7.0 will be installed in your PC without it’s toolbar!!!
9. Then reboot your pc again, run Internet Explorer…and you are done!!!

Windows Browser speed comparisons

With the recent release of Safari 4 Beta, there are 4 viable browser options for Windows users. I don’t consider Internet Explorer a good option (measured by security, speed, user friendliness and adherence to web standards) but one could argue there are 5. I’ve heard murmurs that IE 8 is a big improvement, but I’ll reserve commentary until I’ve used it.

I remain a loyal Firefox user because of all the useful extensions, but I keep Chrome and Opera in my back pocket. I use IE as infrequently as I can, which is basically only when the site requires nothing other than IE to function properly.

Safari is fairly new to me but it looks promising. They’ve imitated Chrome’s look but added a few nuggets of their own. I disliked a few things right off the bat. One of the main issues is they bundle Quicktime with the install. There is no good reason for this. There is a good reason to uninstall Quicktime and replace it with Quicktime alternative. My first order of business was to do just that. I also made sure to uncheck Bonjour and Apple update during the install. Just give me the browser without any cruft please.

Speaking of updates, more apps should work like Firefox. It checks for updates periodically when it’s running. If an update is available, it asks if you want to update, you say yes and you’re done. Opera is second best in this category. It checks for updates but when it finds one you have to download the update yourself and exit Opera to install it. But both checks are lightweight and infrequent enough that you don’t even notice them. They stay out of your way. Apple and Google’s updates go out of their way to install separate services just to check for the version, even when you’re not running the program. That is naughty. Enough said.

Here are the results of Sunspider, a Javascript benchmark, for each of the browsers.

I tested with whatever versions I had on my machine. This is by no means a rigorous scientific evaluation, but it doesn’t take a genius to see that IE is woefully behind. Chrome is ahead by a nose with Firefox 3.1 hot on its tail. The other three are neck and neck.

How to remove W32.SilyFdc Virus

Here are the step to clean this  viruse:

1. Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP).
2. Update the virus definitions.
3. Run a full system scan.
4. Delete any values added to the registry
   

1. To disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP)
If you are running Windows Me or Windows XP, we recommend that you temporarily turn off System Restore. Windows Me/XP uses this feature, which is enabled by default, to restore the files on your computer in case they become damaged. If a virus, worm, or Trojan infects a computer, System Restore may back up the virus, worm, or Trojan on the computer.

2. To update the virus definitions
Symantec Security Response fully tests all the virus definitions for quality assurance before they are posted to our servers. There are two ways to obtain the most recent virus definitions:

• Running LiveUpdate, which is the easiest way to obtain virus definitions.
  If you use Norton AntiVirus 2006, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.0, or newer products, LiveUpdate definitions are updated daily. These products include newer technology.
  If you use Norton AntiVirus 2005, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0, or earlier products, LiveUpdate definitions are updated weekly. The exception is major outbreaks, when definitions are updated more often.
• Downloading the definitions using the Intelligent Updater: The Intelligent Updater virus definitions are posted daily. You should download the definitions from the Symantec Security Response Web site and manually install them.

The latest Intelligent Updater virus definitions can be obtained here: Intelligent Updater virus definitions. For detailed instructions read the document: How to update virus definition files using the Intelligent Updater

3. To run a full system scan
Start your Symantec antivirus program and make sure that it is configured to scan all the files.

For Norton AntiVirus consumer products: Read the document: How to configure Norton AntiVirus to scan all files.
For Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise products: Read the document: How to verify that a Symantec Corporate antivirus product is set to scan all files.

1. Run a full system scan.
2. If any files are detected, follow the instructions displayed by your antivirus program.
3. Delete the autorun.inf file from writeable removable devices, if necessary.

4. To delete the value from the registry

1. Click Start > Run.
2. Type regedit
3. Click OK.
   Note: If the registry editor fails to open the threat may have modified the registry to prevent access to the registry editor. Security Response has developed a tool to resolve this problem. Download and run this tool, and then continue with the removal.
4. Navigate to the following registry subkeys:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun
   HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerShell Folders
   HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWindows”load”
5. In the right pane, delete any values associated with the worm.
6. Exit the Registry Editor.