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The Top 5 Tips and Tricks To Unlock Vista's Potential

The Top 5 Tips and Tricks To Unlock Vista's Potential

Chances are you are receiving too many. Hopefully you're receiving little spam, but certainly you have a lot of mail hitting your inbox that doesn't need your immediate attention. Maybe you even receive private stuff at work that you should rather not attend to at all until you're h

Vista is riddled with an extremely large amount of "security" measures that may, or may not, be helpful. Running Vista as an Administrator may help, but did you know there is an even higher Administrator? Well, there is! All you need to do to unlock it is the follow

Windows Vista has a large amount of options when it comes to customization, as do nearly all windows emulator guide|https://windowsmastery.com/ operating systems. Fortunately, Vista makes it even easier then you may believe to tweak your operating sys

We're not quite done. We still need to configure Firefox to send DNS requests to the SOCKS proxy as well. To do this, enter about:config in the navigation bar in Firefox. You may get a prompt asking you if you know what you're doing. Assure Firefox that you know what you're doing and proc

Simply download and install. It will try to install a BitTorrent client (which will be required later as you will see) so if you already have your own, you can say no to this. While setting up the virtual network driver Windows will warn you. Click 'continue' and you should be good to

Remobo actually supports more than one PC per account, so you can have multiple entries under one buddy. This simply translates to the various computers of your buddy that you can access. This also means that you can use the same account on more than one computer. So you can have your work and home PC listed under the same usern

You can set as many rules as you like, for example mails from your mom's eMail address that contain your sister's name in the message body and are CC'd to your dad should be sorted into the urgent family business folder. For each new rule click the + button behind the last r

. When the command prompt opens type "CD C:Test" (replace "Test" with the name of the folder you want to hide.)

2. Now type "attrib file +s +h" and replace "file" with the name of the actual file name you would like to h

What happens when BitTorrent meets Hamachi meets remote desktop meets networking? Well you get something similar to Remobo (no longer available). Remobo lets you create an IPN which is an Instant Private Netw

3. Now, go back to C:Test and look for your file or folder, it's not there! You cannot find it through simply browsing around, through the command prompt, or even if you click "Show Hidden Files and Folde

One of the most ridiculous features of Vista are the continuous "confirmation" messages. Messages that pop up nearly every time you attempt to run any unknown application. Almost all of which are completely unnecessary, and waste time. Here is how you can disable these annoying uac notifications, quickly and eas

4. To find the folder and it's contents again simply go back to the command prompt, type "CD C:Test" (of course, again replacing "Test" with the name of the folder,) and then type "attrib filename -s -h". You should now be able to find your file ag

Files are sent using BitTorrent. Click on "Send a File" and you will be presented with an option to choose the files and folders to share, choose them and specify if you want to share this one time only or keep it shared for longer. Remobo will now automagically create a torrent and send the torrent file to the other side (to the buddy). The other side can then download the torrent file and use any BitTorrent client to download the file. This increases in significance if you are sharing a file with a gr

Now you have to configure your applications to use the tunnels you have set up. Let's say you want to do your web browsing through the dynamic tunnel we set up. This is actually an extremely useful way to take advantage of

Click one of the computer names that you want to access. Choose "Remote Control" from the menu that shows up. Enter your buddy's password and you'll get remote access to that computer. The whole password situation used for Remote Control bothers me a bit. While this is fine if you are in a work/home scenario, this might not be a good idea in the "buddy" scenario as the Remobo password and the Remote Control password are the same. So if you know someone's remote control password, you know their account password. Kinda l

To publish album to your web server, you can use WebSync. All uploaded pictures will be resized and stamped with watermark automatically while publishing. Once the album is published on web server, user can continually modify its content easily in JetPhoto Studio. The web-side online album will be updated and synchronized with the local album automatically, as long as WebSync is acted ag

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