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Boot Winindows XP Fast
2007-09-05 09:37:00
Follow the following steps:1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:windowsprefetch tosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.11. Reboot your computer.WISE WORDS:Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Stop Hackers And Browser Hijack
2007-09-05 08:50:00
Hackers and Browse r Hijack ing is one area of the Net that affects everyone at some stage.In addition to having third party utilities such as SpyBot, Anti Virus scanners and firewalls installed there are some changes that can be made to Windows 2000/XP. Below are some details to make your system safer from hackers and hijackers.Some of these tips require editing of the Registry so it is wise to either backup the registry and/or create a Restore Point.1. Clearing the Page File at Shutdown:Windows 2000/XP paging file (Sometimes called the Swap File) can contain sensitive information such as plaintext passwords. Someone capable of accessing your system could scan that file and find its information. You can force windows to clear out this file.In the registry navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSet ControlSession ManagerMemory Management and add or edit the DWORD ClearPageFileAtShutdown. Set it to 1.Note that when you do this, the system will take much longer to shut down: a...
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Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth
2007-09-04 06:04:00
Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth. Here's how to Get it backA nice little tweak for XP. Microsuft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)Here's how to get it back:Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" without the "This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.WISE WORDS:The better part of valour is discretion.
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Secret Backdoor To Many Websites
2007-09-04 04:57:00
Ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up; the engine returns with a number of finds, but if you try to open the ones with the most promising content, you are confronted with a registration page instead, and the stuff you were looking for will not be revealed to you unless you agree to a credit card transaction first....The lesson you should have learned here is: Obviously Google can go where you can't.Can we solve this problem? Yes, we can. We merely have to convince the site we want to enter, that WE ARE GOOGLE.In fact, many sites that force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the Googlebot, because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads, site hits and exposure.Examples of such sites are Windows Magazine, .Net Magazine, Nature, and many, many newspapers around the globe.How then, can you disguise yourself as a Googlebot? Quite simple: by changing your browser's User A...
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Rename Multiple Files In Winxp with ease
2007-09-04 04:34:00
XP lets you rename files in bulk by simply selecting multiple files within Windows Explorer and pressing the F2 key. When you use this feature, the OS applies the name you enter to the first file and applies the same name with a number in parentheses to the other files you selected (the file extensions remain unchanged).For example, if you select the following files,* notes.doc* figures.xls* disney.jpg* holiday.gifand rename the first file (notes.doc) to SoD.doc, XP renames the remaining files as follows:* SoD (1).xls* SoD (2).jpg* SoD(3).gifI used to get a particular problem when i try to transfer and save the images and video clips taken by my cellphone to hard disk.Every time i tried to copy those stuff from my phone memory to my 'cell_image' folder, windows can not copy because already exists files with the same name. Now changing those file names to a different, is a mammoth task. This technique helped me a lot to resolve this issue. I hope, you will catch a situation too,...
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How To Remove Admin$ Shares
2007-09-04 04:13:00
By default Windows 2000, Windows XP and WinNT automatically setup hidden admin shares (admin$, c$ and d$), this registry key will disable these hidden shares.System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Services LanmanServer Parameters]Value Name: AutoShareWksData Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)Value Data: (0 = disable shares, 1 = enable)This registry key actually stops the recreation of the shares, therefore it may be necessary to delete the shares through the drive properties also or you can also remove the shares through the Computer Management Console.1. In Control Panel, double-click Admin istrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.2. Click to expand Shared Folders, and then click Shares .3. In the Shared Folder column, right-click the share you want to delete, click Stop sharing, and then click OK.Note : To remove the admin share for only the current session use the second method (Computer Management console), if you want a permanent removal, add t...
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Block Adservers
2007-09-02 06:05:00
If you wanna remove those nasty ads from the pages which waste lot of time and bandwidth then here is something for you I believe it will help you a lot.How it works:It's possible to set up a name server as authoritative for any domain you choose, allowing you to specify the DNS records for that domain. You can also configure most computers to be sort of mini-nameservers for themselves, so that they check their own DNS records before asking a nameserver. Either way, you get to say what hostname points to what IP address. If you haven't guessed already, the way you block ads it to provide bogus information about the domains we don't want to see - ie, all those servers out there that dedicate their existence to spewing out banner ads.The hosts fileProbably the most common way people block ads like this is with something called the "hosts file". The hosts file is a simple list of hostnames and their corresponding IP addresses, which your computer looks at every time you try and cont...
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Add A Url Address Bar To The Task Bar
2007-09-02 05:39:00
You can add an Internet URL address bar to your Windows XP taskbar. Doing so will let you type in URLs and launch Web pages without first launching a browser. It will also let you launch some native Windows XP applications in much the same way as you would via the Run menu (so you could type in 'calc' without quotes to launch the calculator or 'mspaint' without quotes to launch Microsoft Paint. Here's how you add the address bar:1. Right-click on the taskbar, select Toolbars, and then click Address .2. The word Address will appear on your taskbar.3. Double click it to access it.4. If that doesn't work, your taskbar is locked. You can unlock it by right-clicking on the taskbar again and uncheck Lock the Task bar.NOTE: You may also need to grab the vertical dotted lines beside the word Address and drag it to the left to make the Address window appear.

Uninstall Microsft Instant Messenger
2007-09-02 05:36:00
Maybe you don't use Microstfts Instant Messen ger (MSN) like many people but you will notice that it loads into memory when you fire up your operating system. It sits in the task bar stares at you. This is annoying to me at least, specially when i don't need any service from it. Well in this kinda situation, you better choose to read on [:-D]..... This worked in WinXP, but may work on others....So, go to START-->RUN copy and paste the following:RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%INFmsmsgs.inf,BLC.RemoveClick ok. No more msn process.WISE WORDS:Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Keep Folders Hidden
2007-09-02 05:20:00
First create a new folder somewhere on your hard drive when you name it hold down "Alt" and press "0160" from Nam pad, this will create an ' ' [invisible space] so it will appear as if it has no name.Then right click in and select "Properties" select the tab "customize" and select "change icon" scroll along and you should a few blanc spaces click on any one and click ok, when you have saved the settings the folder will be invisible to hide all your personal files.Fun :- now drag the folder to the top right corner of desktop and let it sleep there quietly. It will be in front of everyone yet only your watchful eyes can see it. Try this prank on your friends...Anyways you can always save the folder any place on hard disk you want. To make the folder visible again, go to the folder/desktop you saved the our specially customized folder -> press Ctrl+A and locate the place where the folder is secretly staring at you -> rename it ->change the folder icon back to normal.Have fun!!!!!
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Hide in the (Network) Neighborhood
2007-09-01 09:05:00
Don't want your XP computer to show up in the network browse list (Network Neighborhood /My Network Places) to other users on your network? One way to accomplish that is to disable file sharing. To do this, click Start, right click My Network Places and select Properties. Right click your local area connection and click Properties. Uncheck the box that says File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks. Click OK.But what if you want to be able to share folders with some users; you just don't want everyone on the network to see your computer's shares? There's a way:Click Start and select Run.In the Run box, type net config server /hidden:yesClick OK.Now others who know the UNC path (\computer nameshare name) can connect to your computer's shares from the Run box, but it won't show up in the network browse list.
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Change Windows XP Boot Screen
2007-09-01 08:19:00
This is a very simple trick to do if you have done the same for the logon screen and the start button. There are 2 ways to do this trick that I know about one is doing it manually and the other is using a program called bootxp. I am going to tell you the manual way to do it, but if you want to know the other way just let me know, so I can do an update to the guide. Now once you have downloaded your ntoskrnl.exe file save it a general location so that you will have easy access to it, like my folder.Once you have ntoskrnl.exe file in an easy access folder, restart your pc into safe mode. Once into safe mode go to the folder where your files are located.Now that you are there copy the file that you want to change your boot screen too. Once you have copied that file, hit the window key + r or type %windir%system32 in the run command, so that folder as follows.Once there paste your new file into the folder and overwrite the existing folder.Now that you have your new file in the folder r...
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A simple tool to find music on the net
2007-09-01 02:42:00
Exploseek is a nice simple tool to find music on the net. It is possible to use the major search engines to type your queries, but if you use this tool it will be much easier as some of you have probably seen already. We always try to improve the queries, if possible, and will update it at random times. Further you don't need to install a peer-to-peer program with possible spyware and other security issues, the price to pay is that you will not always find as much as such a program, but on a lucky day you find a load of music.CODE:http://www.exploseek.com/
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Getting older programs to run on Windows XP
2007-09-01 02:27:00
Most programs run properly on Windows XP. The exceptions are some older games and other programs that were written specifically for an earlier version of Windows. To run your program on Windows XP, you can try the following, Run the Program Compatibility Wizard. As an alternative, you can set the compatibility properties manually. Update your program, drivers, or hardware. These options are covered in detail below.----------------------------------- --The Program Compatibility Wizard:---------------------------------- ---This wizard prompts you to test your program in different modes (environments) and with various settings. For example, if the program was originally designed to run on Windows 95, set the compatibility mode to Windows 95 and try running your program again. If successful, the program will start in that mode each time. The wizard also allows you to try different settings, such as switching the display to 256 colors and the screen resolution to 640 x 480 pixels. If compa...
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Disable Picture And Fax Viewer
2007-08-31 07:02:00
We all know that WinXP likes to keep itself held together, and how it doesn't like you uninstalling certain components. Well The Picture and Fax Viewer , is one of these programs which can cause problems if removed incorrectly. It can be disabled safely as follows:[Start] [Run] type regedit and click [OK]Navigate to :HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ SystemFileAssociations/ image/ ShellEx/ ContextMenuHandlersthen delete the Folder ShellImagePreview under ContextMenuHandlersNote: If you want to restore the Picture and Fax Viewer :Create the ShellImagePreview folder and create the String Value (Default)Assign it the value {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}NOT E: This tweak doesn't uninstall the program. It removes the association and therefore it cannot be run.WISE WORDS:Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

Defending WinXP Pro -with what win-xp has to offer
2007-08-31 05:17:00
Today I will tell you about various ways to Securing WinXP Pro with what win-xp has to offer by default. No extra third party software to tweak things which might make your system unstable and push it into the verge of reinstalling soon often.Note: These are just notes of the changes i made to win-xp pro using win-xp optionsafter my default install. These changes will not secure your box 100% but theymake a good couple of 1st steps. They are in no specific order other than theorder that I performed them.1. NTFS Partition.2. Disable Error Reporting3. Disable Automatic Updates (only if your XP copy is pirated)4. Disable "Recent Documents" Viewed5. Setup XP Firewall6. Setup screensaver password7. Setup BIOS password8. Setup "AfterBios" login password9. Account Modifications-Rename Admin Account-Disable Guest Account-Disable Help_Assistant Account-Disable Support Account10. Install a virus scanner.11. Change Login Screen (default shows user names)12. Disable Remote Registry (and other s...
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Useful information on Internet Merchant Account
2007-08-31 00:38:00
Choosing An Internet Merc hant Account :Surf to Google and perform a search on "Internet Merchant Account". The results are staggering (2,300,000 results!) If you have created a web based business and need to accept credit card payments, your choices are limitless. Before you partner with a provider, take time to understand the different components of Internet credit card processing, and know what to look for in a merchant provider.How It Works:Accepting credit card payments through your web site actually requires multiple components. Between a paying customer and your bank account, three layers exist:Payment Gateway - This is the code that will transmit a customer's order to and from an Internet merchant account provider. The payment gateway provides you the ability to accept customer billing information (credit card number, credit card type, expiration date, and payment amount) and the necessary validation steps that must be followed before the credit card is actually billed.Intern...
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Change Default Location For Installing Apps
2007-08-30 20:33:00
As the size of hard drives increase, more people are using partitions to separate and store groups of files.XP uses the C:Program Files directory as the default base directory into which new programs are installed if your . However, you can change the default installation drive and/ or directory by using a Registry hack.Run the Registry Editor (regedit) and go toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWind owsCurrentVersionLook for the value named ProgramFilesDir. by default,this value will be C:Program Files. Edit the value to any valid drive or folder and XP will use that new location as the default installation directory for new programs.
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Search Google For Rapidshare Links
2007-08-30 04:36:00
If you wanna find some applications, files etc on rapidshare.de via google, do the following.Paste this into the google search box (not the address bar):site: rapidshare.de -filetype: zip OR rar daterange: 2453402-2453412* this searches the site rapidshare.de for any file that has extension .rar or .zip, andhas been indexed between 1-11 February.try this one:-dvd site: rapidshare.de -filetype: zip OR rar daterange: 2453402-2453412* this is the same search but it specifically searches for "dvd" with the samesearch criteria, so any application posted with the word dvd in it will be found.There are mainly three criteria to keep in mind when doing this search.1. site: your site of choice to search2. filetype: filetypes you want to search,if you put a "OR" after the firstfiletype you can add more.3. daterange: (start date-end date)* this uses the "Julian calendar", converter can be found here:http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Ju lianDate.html
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Disable Compression On Xp, NTFS partition, Disk Cleanup
2007-08-30 04:31:00
On an NTFS partition, Disk Cleanup can compress old files to save space. But calculating the savings and performing the compression often take a long time, and on some systems, Disk Cleanup hangs during the process. If that happens, or if you don't care to wait, use this Registry tweak to disable the compression: Delete the keyHKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows CurrentVersionExplorerVolumeCachesCompres s Old Files.WISE WORDS:The fear of Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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Evolution Of Computer Viruses History Of Viruses
2007-08-30 04:26:00
part 1:Like any other field in computer science, viruses have evolved -a great deal indeed- over the years. In the series of press releases which start today, we will look at the origins and evolution of malicious code since it first appeared up to the present.Going back to the origin of viruses, it was in 1949 that Mathematician John Von Neumann described self-replicating programs which could resemble computer viruses as they are known today. However, it was not until the 60s that we find the predecessor of current viruses. In that decade, a group of programmers developed a game called Core Wars, which could reproduce every time it was run, and even saturate the memory of other players? computers. The creators of this peculiar game also created the first antivirus, an application named Reeper, which could destroy copies created by Core Wars.However, it was only in 1983 that one of these programmers announced the existence of Core Wars, which was described the following year in a pr...
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List Of Sites I Recommend Not To Go To ~UPDATED~
2007-08-30 04:17:00
Misspellings or misrepresentation Tactics---------------------------------- ------------hxxp://www.aresgalaxy.comhxxp ://www.edonkey-software.comhxxp://www.edo nkey-mp3.comhxxp://www.emule-software.com hxxp://www.poilet.comhxxp://www.kaaza.com hxxp://www.kazza.comhxxp://www.kaza.comhx xp://www.kazaalite.comhxxp://www.kazaa-li te.tkhxxp://www.k-lite.tkhxxp://www.kazaa lite.nlhxxp://www.kazaa-download.dehxxp:/ /www.kazaagold.comhxxp://k-litetk.comhxxp ://www.kazaalite.de - Beware, links on the page prompt for download of star dialer.hxxp://www.kazaa.de - Same as kazaalite.de. Again, beware of star dialer.hxxp://www328.ws1.internetservice. com - Same as kazaa.de and kazaalite.de.hxxp://www.kazaa-file-sharin g-downloads.com - Fishy executable present here.hxxp://www.klitesite.comhxxp://www.k lite.tkhxxp://freewebhosting.hostdepartme nt.com/k/kazaalitetk - Redirects to klitesite.com.hxxp://kazaa.freakin.nlhxxp ://www.kazaa-gold.com - I discovered this site while reading Sharmans copyright infringment c...
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How To Set search For All Files In Winxp
2007-08-28 07:53:00
When you perform a search for a file in Windows XP. The default setting is for XP to ONLY return files in the "Search Results" pane - when they are registered file types to a program on your PC.In other words if you are looking for a file that is NOT registered with an application on your PC, it will not be found using the default search settings.However, you can turn off the default by a quick Tweak of the registry!Open the Registry editor (type regedit from the Run command) and navigate to:HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet ControlContentIndexDouble-Click the value named:FilterFiles WithUnknownExtensions..a nd change the value from 0 to 1Exit the registry editor and reboot!!!!!

Slow Opening Of File Dialogs
2007-08-28 04:57:00
An intermittent slowdown opening file dialogs or Windows Explorer listings is often caused by a mapped network drive. You can select Map Network Drive from Windows Explorer's Tools menu to make a drive or a folder on a remote PC appear as a simple drive letter on your computer. This will let you access that drive or folder as if it were a local drive. After a restart, Windows reestablishes the connection when it's needed?for example, when you open the drop-down box that displays a tree containing My Computer and all drives below it. This initial connection can sometimes be slow the first time in a session. If the remote PC is not accessible, each attempt to display the folder tree may be slowed. Most likely the reason that some of your file-open dialogs are slow and some aren't lies in their initial display mode.If the inconvenience of this slowdown outweighs the convenience of having a mapped network drive, simply click on Tools in Windows Explorer's menu and select Disconnect ...
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Securing your WIN XP computer
2007-08-28 04:48:00
Do you work in a corporate environment where you don't appreciate your co-workers or boss having access to your comp and private files when you are not around?You can provide added level of security to your WIN XP System. This is called securing your Win XP accounts database. You can store all information related to your accounts in a encrypted form on a floppy disk. What this would do is that if You do not have access to your floppy disk, You can not access the system. I am not sure You realized what I just said ! Even if You know your user id/password, You will not be able to access the system unless and until You have this startup disk.The process of generating this secure startup floppy disk is simple. Go to START-RUN and type syskey. You will see a window come up. Click on Upgrade command button. You would see another window popping up which will give You the option of storing the encrypted accounts database either locally or on your floppy disk. Choose floppy disk and click O...
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Search Google For Ebook Server
2007-08-28 04:31:00
As you know Googl e .com is the most popular search engine in the world.Here are some tips to helps you find eBooks with Google:Find Apache's (default) Index pageTry this query:+("index of") +("/ebooks"|"/book") +(chm|pdf|zip|rar) +apacheFind a particular eBook file:Try this query:allinurl: +(rar|chm|zip|pdf|tgz) hackingWISE WORDS:Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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Rapidshare Timelimit
2007-08-28 04:19:00
Rapidshare traces the users IP address to limit each user to a certain amount of downloading per day. To get around this, you need to show the rapidshare server, a different IP address. You can do this one of multiple ways.Requesting a new IP address from your ISP server.Here's how to do it in windows:1. Click Start2. Click run3. In the run box type cmd.exe and click OK4. When the command prompt opens type the following. ENTER after each new line.ipconfig /flushdnsipconfig /releaseipconfig /renewexit5. Erase your cookies in whatever browser you are using.6. Try the rapidshare download again.Frequently you will be assigned a new IP address when this happens. Sometime you will, sometimes you will not. If you are on a fixed IP address, this method will not work. To be honest, I do not know how to do this in linux/unix/etc. If this works for you, you may want to save the above commands into a batch file, and just run it when you need it.WISE WORDS:Common sense is not so common.
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Remote Shutdown
2007-08-27 17:05:00
XP PRO has a lot of fun utilities. One of the most useful ones I have found to date is the ability to remotely reboot a PC. There are 2 ways of doing this. You will need to have admin access to the PC to preform these actions. That being said, here is the first way to do it:Right click my computer, choose manage.Highlight the Computer Management (Local) then click on Action, choose connect to another computer.In the window that opens fill in the machine name of the PC you want to connect to and click ok.Once connected right click on Computer Management (Remote machine name) and choose properties.Go to the "Advanced" tab and click the Settings button under Start up and recovery.Click on the Shutdown button.Under action choose what you want to do (you can log off current user, shut down, restart, or power down. you can also choose if you want to force all applications to close, close hung apps, or wait for all apps to close by themselves).The second way... Remember dos... that good ol...
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Recover a Corrupted System File
2007-08-27 17:02:00
If an essential Windows file gets whacked by a virus or otherwise corrupted, restore it from the Windows CD. Search the CD for the filename, replacing the last character with an underscore; for example, Notepad.ex_. If it's found, open a command prompt and enter the command EXPAND, followed by the full pathname of the file and of the desired destination: EXPAND D:SETUPNOTEPAD.EX_ C:WindowsNOTEPAD.EXE. If either pathname contains any spaces, surround it with double quotes.If the file isn't found, search on the unmodified filename. It will probably be inside a CAB file, which Win XP treats as a folder. Simply right-drag and copy the file to the desired location. In other Windows platforms, search for a file matching *.cab that contains the filename. When the search is done, open a command prompt and enter EXTRACT /L followed by the desired location, the full pathname of the CAB file, and the desired filename; for example: EXTRACT /L C:Windows D:I386Driver.cab Notepad.exe. Aga...
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Problem With Internet Navigation, Clean Host File
2007-08-27 16:05:00
We have seen a large number of computers coming in with problems navigation on the Internet . Also unable to go to Windows update and virus update sites. Here is a quick fix that also seems to speed navigation up some.Just for safety create a copy of the file before making changes.gotoC:windowssystem32driversetc (Windows XP)C:I386 (Windows 2000)Open the host with notepad.remove all entries bellow127.0.0.1 localhostthen save and close.WISE WORDS:Better be three hours soon than one minute late.
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