How to hide the physical drives in Windo...
How to hide the physical drives in Windows Explorer If you don’t want your individual physical drives/partitions to show up in Windows Explorer or My Computer (you’ll still be able to access them from the Run box), you can do so by editing the registry. Here’s how: Open the registry editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer In the right details pane, right click an empty space and select New, then Binary Value. Name the new value “NoDrives” (without the...
Windows 7 and Vipre...
Windows 7 has a much more aggressive firewall built in. And the added security that is on by defualt can also get in the way. On Windows7 machines make sure that you have network discovery enabled along with file and printer sharing. Open port 18086 inbound to the agent machine. Port 18082, 135, 139 and 445 need to be open for incoming and outgoing connection to the Vipre server. Note that port 139 and 445 are enabled by default if file and printer sharing is enabled. If the system meets all these requirement you should be able to push deploy with no problems. As for...
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Windows XP on
10 9th, 2009 |
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Clearing Windows Update Cache...
If you’ve ever had Windows Update fail, you know what a headache it can be to get it working again. Sometimes it happens because the file was somehow corrupted during the download or interrupted, and Windows tries to install it anyway. It will keep trying because it thinks the update files are there. If your computer hasn’t been formatted in a while this can also free up a lot of space on your hard drive. I’ve seen it clear up to 2 GB of space, because the updates are installed but the cache is never deleted. Open a Command Prompt. Click Start >...
How to encrypted Torrent traffic....
These are the settings for uTorrent. others can be found here http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent-traffic/ 1. Go to: Options > Preferences > BitTorrent 2. Go to ‘Protocol encryption’, you can choose between ‘enabled’ and ‘forced’. ‘Enabled’ will give you more connections but offers less protection against traffic shapers. I would recommend to try ‘enabled’ first, if that doesn’t increase your speeds you need to swich to ‘forced’. 3. Ticking ‘Allow legacy incoming...
SNMP on a Windows Server 2008...
I needed to set up SNMP on a Windows Server 2008 box so that I could add it to our What’s Up Gold monitoring system. As you probably know, Server 2008 relies heavily on the concepts of Roles and Features. Well, SNMP is a Feature. So, in Server Manager I added the SNMP Feature. Then, like in previous versions of Windows, I went to the Services UI, scrolled down to ‘SNMP Service’, right-clicked, and selected Properties. I expected to see a nice series of tabs that would allow me to configure the SNMP Service with things like ‘community names’...
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summey in
How To on
08 11th, 2009 |
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Firefox trick to getting swf >]...
Firefox for Geeks and Power Users a. Type about:blank in the Firefox address bar b. Now click List cache entries or directly type about:cache?device=disk (Disk cache device) c. Press Ctrl+F and try to location the flash file by typing some part of website URL or the flash file name or just .swf. After some hit and trial, you should be able to locate the swf file URL d. Click the SWF URL to open the Cache Entry Information page. Right click on the link and choose “Save link...
How can I make XP boot automatically?...
How can I make XP boot automatically? QUESTION: I have a problem. I installed Vista on my XP computer, to dual boot. But I don’t like Vista and went back to using XP. The problem is that when I reboot, it automatically starts up Vista unless I’m paying attention and choose the “Previous operating system” in the bootup menu. How can I make it automatically go into XP again? ANSWER: Luckily that’s an easy one to fix, although the answer isn’t very intuitive. Here’s what you need to do: 1. Click Start | Control Panel and open the...
How to edit the registry to modify Syste...
How to edit the registry to modify System Restore There are three registry keys that can be used to make changes to XP’s System Restore feature. To make these changes, be sure to first back up the registry, then open your registry editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ WindowsNT \ CurrentVersion \ SystemRestore Perhaps the most useful modification you can make is to set the maximum time that a restore point exists before it is deleted. The setting is specified in seconds, and the default is 7776000, which translates to...