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Capital gains tax rates (IRS fedaral taxes)

Capital gains tax rates are applied to your capital gain depending on the type of investment asset and the holding period. Capital gain is taxed differently based on whether your capital gain is short-term or long-term.

Profit from assets held for a short time are deemed to be speculative and usually are taxed a bit more.

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Long term & short term capital gain and loss

When it comes to taxation of investments, it makes a difference whether your capital gain is long term or short term. Capital gains from long-tem investments are taxed differently from short-term investments. Short-term investment gains are usually taxed more than short-term profit.

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Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite

Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite or short just Citrix is a package consisting of a handful of key products that run on Windows Server 2003 and now also on Windows Server 2008. Citrix is a competitor suite to Microsoft's Windows Terminal Services. However, Citrix can go beyond what Windows Terminal Services itself offers.

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10 tips last-minute checklist for error-free tax return

It is important to ensure your tax return is error free. We provide you a 10-point last-minute checklist to make sure your tax return is error-free.

Not only the additions and subtractions need to be correct, other inputs such as your filing status, social security number, and other things could also delay your tax refund. They could also raise a red flag in IRS and cause them to audit your tax return which is the last thing you want to happen to you.

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Windows Server 2008

You can download evaluation copy of the Windows Server 2008 operating system for free from the Microsoft website.

This install does not require product activation or a product key. The installation package available at the Microsoft website is an evaluation copy. Any edition of Windows Server 2008 may be installed without activation and evaluated for an initial 60 days.

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Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator

The Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator message can be surprising and very unwelcome if you need to troubleshoot your computer. The Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator message is caused by someone actively making changes to the computer configuration, but we have seen it happen when registry got altered by a virus as well.

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Favicon - how to create

Favicon is an acronym for favorites icon. Favicon is some times also called a website icon or urlicon. Favicon is a picture that is associated with a website. In most cases, favicon is a company logo. Favicon is the picture that visually represents a website.

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Active directory

Active Directory is a centralized and standardized system that automates management of company IT resources. Active Directory manages user data, user accounts, security, applications, servers, and other distributed resources. Active directory also enables interoperation with other directories.

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Group policy configuration example in Windows XP

This page provides two examples of how a group policy can be used in Windows XP and how it can be edited.

A few words before we get to the example...

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How to edit group policy

Group policy is a nice way of managing users and computers. It is an infrastructure in the Microsoft Windows world that is used to centralize and automate the management of configuration or policy settings for users and computers within an Active Directory environment.

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