How to identify a music song not by lyrics, but by sound

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Repeated scanning of a drive during startup

Hello, what you're experiencing is what Windows refers to as "setting the dirty bit" and what you have to do is unset that bit. Every time Windows XP starts, autochk.exe is called by the kernel to scan all volumes to check if the volume dirty bit is set. If the dirty bit is set, autochk performs an immediate chkdsk /f on that volume. Chkdsk /f verifies file system integrity and attempts to fix any problems with the volume. It is usually caused by a hard shut down or a power loss during a read-right operation on that particular drive.

How do I fix it, you ask?

Well, that's easy. First click Start> Run> bring up a command prompt by typing in "CMD" and type " fsutil dirty query d: ". This queries the drive, and more than likely it will tell you that it is dirty. Next, type "CHKNTFS /X D:". The X tells Windows to NOT check that particular drive on the next reboot. At this time, manually reboot your computer, it should not do a Chkdsk and take you directly to Windows.

Once Windows has fully loaded, bring up another CMD prompt and type and now you want to do a Chkdsk manually by typing "Chkdsk /f /r d:". This should take you through 5 stages of the scan and will unset that dirty bit. Finally, type "fsutil dirty query d:" and Windows will confirm that the dirty bit is not set on that drive. Good luck!

This information was found at

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-10149_102-0.html?threadID=113089

Sharing programs with limited user account in windows XP

Those who use windows XP, may regularly use user with limited account to avoid virus infection. But that brings a problem. Sharing programs with limited user account in windows XP may not be available with all the programs. Here what you can do for sharing programs with limited user account in windows XP.

Go to user account with administrative power. Open the program folder in "Program files" and copy the .exe file and pest it to "Shared document" folder in the folder named "Documents and settings"

Now you should be able to sharing programs with limited user account in windows XP.

Find duplicate files

Many of the time too many duplicate files acquire a lot of space in the hard drive. Sometimes they are so much that you need to find duplicate files and remove them. A good freeware software to find duplicate files is Duplicate File Searcher. To find duplicate files, you don't need to install it. No matter if you run windows, linux or solaris, if you have Java Runtime Environment installed in your computer, you'll be able to run it.

For installing Java Click here

If you have java installed all you have to do to find duplicate files is go to the following link and download the software.

http://duplicatefilessearcher.net/

Unzip it and run "dfsfull.jar"

Now you should be able to search and find duplicate files.