Orkut, FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter, Digg are great sites to waste time on the internet. Well you can spend quality time there to build your network or you can sit all the day long playing FarmVille. You have got to set some limits to protect your kids wasting their time. The good news is, you can block any website for a specific PC at home using hosts file. Here is how to do it.
Open the file "c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" in notepad or go to Start > Run and type / copy-paste c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. Choose open with notepad in the option. The contents of the file will be displayed and will be something like this:
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If you are annoyed by your yahoo buddies who play hide and seek sometimes then here are few Yahoo Invisible scanners and detectors which will enable you to scan which of your buddy is pretending to be invisible but is actually online.
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There are many FTP file upload / download, data transfer, remote backup softwares. Despite of its simplicity, web developers still like to use FileZilla. Sometimes you want to see the hidden files at the remote server. Take an example of .htaccess file. By default its hidden from view at remote server when browsing through FileZilla. This tutorial explains how to view hidden files e.g. .htaccess with the FTP client FileZilla.
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If you use windows then surely you encounter 'Not Responding' problem often. Many programs go not responding due to a number of known and unknown reasons. Well you see a significant amount of time after which windows recovers from Not Responding problem and comes back to its senses. Whether some program or software hangs and windows browser freezes for a while. Normally that software is sent a command to kill itself. Surely every windows user hate when something goes not responding and wants to kill that app of waiting time which hangs. Here is the solution to that problem. Use this trick which is a windows registry hack and you will see 'Not Responding' never again.
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This video tutorial shows you how to create a hidden folder in Windows XP. Do you have something to hide from view? Hold down the ALT key and using the Number Pad (not the numbers where the special characters are) press 0160 for a blank folder name. In order to delete the folder you'll need to rename it in a command prompt by typing: ren " " foldername That's not a space in between the quotes. You need to press ALT+0160. First we hide the name of folder and then we will hide the folder icon in a very easy way. The folder will be there, it will be hidden. Its invisible folder.
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This is a Windows XP Tweak video tutorial. Make Windows XP bootup faster with a quick registry tweak. The StartupDelay Controls the time delay after a system startup before Indexing Service. This tweak does not disable anything, it just removes the unnecessary wait time.
Navigate and expand in the registry.
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Have you ever been blessed by the goodies of this spyware/malware toolbar. People have lot of problems with this toolbar called My Way Search Assistant. MyWay Searchbar, also known as MyWay Speedbar, MyWay Search Assistant, Webfetti Toolbar, MyWebSearch, or MyWeb Searchbar, is a malware and search toolbar program that allows the user to query Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo!, and LookSmart search engines. HP and Dell pre-install this software on some of their commercially sold PCs. It is also bundled with some versions of Kazaa and is a part of the FunWebProducts suite of utilities such as Smiley Central, Webfetti, Cursor Mania, My Mail Stationary, My Mail Signature, My Mail Stamps, FunBuddyIcons, PopSwatter, and Popular Screensavers.
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This is a problem where you can not right click at in Windows, at desktop or in Windows explorer. If you are having trouble with the context menu (right click menu) or right clicking on the desktop does not do anything then most probably you have your group policy is set to not displaying the context menu (right click menu) in the windows explorer. You can modify and set it in two ways. One using the group policy editor and the other using the registry editor. Here is how it is.
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In the following article we will learn that 'how to delete computer history'? Whenever we have to type in some command in Windows, we go to Run dialog, type the command and press OK. Windows remembers the command you typed in and it will come up as a suggestion drop down when you type the same or similar command again in run. Sometimes we want to delete certain commands from the Run command history due to various reasons. So here are some of the methods of how we can edit the Run command history:
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System Restore is a component of Microsoft's Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems that allows for the rolling back of system files, registry keys, installed programs, etc., to a previous state in the event of malfunctioning or failure. System Restore takes "snapshots" of critical system files and some program files and registry settings and stores this information as restore points. If your computer is not functioning correctly, you can use these restore points to return Windows to a previous state when your computer was functioning correctly. It can also change scripts, batch files, and other kinds of executable files on your computer. Here is how you can turn off /on system restore.
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