If a Word document is damaged or corrupted, it will chronically display behaviors not normally attributed to its nature. These behaviors may take the form of:

• Error messages while processing;
• Incorrect format or layout of the document;
• Improper repagination;
• Slow response upon file loading or viewing;
• Unintelligible characters displayed onscreen;
• and other behaviors abnormal to the program.

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YouTube can accommodate videos in various file formats. Different video formats have their own benefits and drawbacks, depending on the device, computer, or software used.

Here are the video formats YouTube currently accepts:

• 3GP for mobile phones;
• AVI for Windows Operating Systems;
• FLV;
• MOV for Macintosh OS;
• MP4 for media players (such as the iPod and PSP);
• MPEG;
• SWF for Shockwave Flash;
• and MKV.

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Enter [about:config] in the browser URL bar before entering any of the following keys to change Firefox’s configuration.

How to disable Firefox virus scanning? Firefox 3’s default setting scans downloaded files automatically, using a standard anti-virus application to help safeguard your system security. Larger file downloads go hand-in-hand with longer scanning time, which could slow your browser down. Increase the performance of Firefox by turning off the automatic anti-virus scan with [browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone].

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Third-party software is available if you wish to secure any files in your computer (by adding locks and password protection) and render these private. There are also some methods wherein additional software is unnecessary, locking certain files may be achieved by executing a few, relatively simple tweaks.

Here are a couple of ways to lock folders by coding, without resorting to any software:

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You may sometimes encounter errors when you are trying to open a folder in your PC. In these cases the actual reason is usually some conflict with user permissions. Tweaking user permissions will require you to be logged in as an administrator. However, if you are using your own PC, then you are most likely already the administrator. In that case, all you will have to do is take ownership of the folder and you will be able to open it. Do the following to take ownership of the folder:
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Let us suppose, you have purchased a brand new, state of the art PC with Windows XP installed in it. Everything is going fine, till you try to run the application that you used to run everyday when you had Windows 95 in your PC. Nothing happens when you double click the executable, except that a message box pops up and declares, “This program requires Windows 95”. As soon as you click on the big OK button, the message box closes, ad to your chagrin, the application shows no sign of starting up, either. What is to be done? Do you have to go on with your life, never using that application again? Well, not quite.

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The RAW format is considered to be the digital equivalent of the negatives created in film-based cameras. These files contain unprocessed data about the pixels captured by the lens of the digital camera, hence the name “RAW”. RAW files are not proper images, but these contain all the information needed to create a complete image. If someone viewed a RAW image, he/ she would see nothing but splotches of red, blue, and green colors. The images in this format must be processed to some compatible image format before these can be viewed in the proper form.

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