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I’d like to send out a document to my colleagues for review. I don’t want them to distribute it, so I want to put a “Draft” watermark on the document. How can I do that?

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I wanted a way to make backups of my emails in Outlook Express but the Save As option in the file menu only saves one message at a time. How do I do this?

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I have a long list of Favourites in IE which I have been curating for years. I’d like to print them out as a backup, how do I do this?

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A friend of mine recorded a gig my band played in and uploaded one of our songs to YouTube. He’s deleted the original file so I was wondering if there’s any way I can download the YouTube video?

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I’ve been playing with HTML 5 in FireFox 4 and have been pretty pleased with what I’ve found. However, some sites, like Hotmail don’t seem to work very well. Is there a way to toggle HTML 5 on and off easily?

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I’m pretty keen on my privacy and don’t like it when my boss creeps up on me. Is there any way I can hide all my applications except the one I’m supposed to be working on at the touch of a button?

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Whenever I click on a link in MSN Messenger I get sent to a really annoying SmartScreen message asking if I’m sure I want to visit the site. Of course I’m sure, I wouldn’t have clicked the link if I weren’t! How do I stop my computer doing that?

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My computer is two years old and recently I’ve noticed that it’s taking longer and longer to start up. I remember when I got it, it used to start up really quickly and now it feels like I can make a pot of tea and some biscuits (yes, MAKE the biscuits too) in the time it takes for it to start up. What can I do to speed it up?

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