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How to customise and remove the advertising and other annoying features from Windows Live Messenger and MSN Messenger. Works for Yahoo Messenger too.

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How to remove the My Sharing Folders icon from My Computer in Windows Vista, XP.

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Windows Media Centre Remote Control & Winamp
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Perform A Regular Expression Search And Replace
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