Post: Massive collection of Internet tricks & tutorials!
08-27-2011, 08:17 PM #1
Liam
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Hi Everyone, take a look at this huge collection of Internet Tutorials,Tips & Tricks!
Last Updated: 30/08/2011


I'm sure these will prove very useful for you and more will be added as they are found.

What you will find in this thread

  • Firefox Tricks
  • Google Tricks
  • Surf The Internet Without Any Internet Browser
  • Set Multiple Home Pages In Firefox
  • Block & Unblock Websites Without Software
  • Make Folders Invisible Without Using Any Software
  • Windows Vista tricks
  • Windows 7 tricks
  • Personalize You Own Google Logo & Background (Firefox Only)
  • Create ZIP Files Online - Free & Easy!
  • Youtube tricks
  • Command prompt on right click


Most of these tricks and tutorials were found on the internet, I do not claim them to be mine in any way, apart from the ones I already knew Winky Winky

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Firefox tricks!

Speed Up Firefox:
If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how.

  • Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them)
  • Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
  • Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
  • Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
  • Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.



Smart Keywords:
If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”Winky Winky and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box.


User Chrome:
If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you’ll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It’s a bit complicated to get into here, but check out this tutorial.


Auto Complete:
This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there - like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.


Tab Navigation:
Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts.
Ctrl+Tab - Rotate Forward Among Tabs
Ctrl+Shft+Tab - Rotate to the Previous Tab
Ctrl+1-9 - Choose a number to jump to a specific Tab


Limit RAM Usage:
If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.


Reduce RAM Usage further for when Firefox is Minimized:
This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.


Move or Remove the Close Tab button:
Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value.

  • 0: Display a Close Button on the Active Tab only
  • 1: (Default) Display Close Buttons on all Tabs
  • 1: (Default) Display Close Buttons on all Tabs
  • 3: Display a single Close Button at the end of the Tab Bar (Firefox 1.x Behavior)


Put your own Graphic on the Firefox Toolbar:
If you don't like the plain background of Firefox's tool bar, don't worry -- you can put your own graphic there. Type the following into the userChrome.css file and put the graphic that you want to use, background.gif, in the same directory as userChrome.css. The graphic can be any name and any type of image file supported by Firefox.

Here's the code to use:
/* Change the toolbar graphic */
menubar, toolbox, toolbar, .tabbrowser-tabs {
background-image: url("background.gif") !important;
background-color: none !important;
}
The graphic you use will automatically be scaled to fit the Toolbar. For example, if it's small, it will be tiled.


Remove Menu Items:
Are there menu items (for example, Help) that you never use? If so, you can easily make them disappear. To remove the Help menu, add this to userChrome.css.

  • /* Remove the Help menu */
    menu[label="Help"] {
    display: none !important; }

    You can remove any of the other menus as well. Use the same syntax as above and substitute its name (File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks or Tools). So, for example, to remove both the Help and Tools menu, you'd add these lines to userChrome.css.


  • /* Remove the Help and Tools menus */
    menu[label="Tools"], menu[label="Help"] {
    display: none !important; }

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Change the Search Bar Width:
Don't like the width of the search bar on the upper-right hand corner of Firefox? No problem -- it's easy to change. All you need to do is specify the width you want, in pixels. Use this code in userChrome.css to tell the search bar to be 600 pixels wide, but you can, of course, use whatever size you want.

  • /* Make the Search box wider
    (in this case 600 pixels wide) */
    #search-container, #searchbar {
    max-width: 600px !important;
    width: 600px !important; }


Greasemonkey Add ons
Greasemonkey offers a huge load of scripts and firefox modifications that can be used for your advantage when it comes to gaming or just about anything.

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Along with all available add-ons to enhance your firefox experience, enjoy.


Firefox Quick-tricks
Last but not least, some firefox quick-tricks. To perform these tricks open your firefox browser and copy/paste the following in your address bar


  • chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul
    This will show you dancing firefox.Your firefox window will automatically popup anywhere at screen.


  • chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
    This will open another firefox within in a new tab.So you will have firefox within firefox.


  • chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul
    This will open firefox options dialog box in new tab.


  • chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul
    This will open your firefox bookmark manager in new tab.


  • chrome://browser/content/history/history-panel.xul
    This will open your history in new tab.


  • chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul?type=extensions
    This will open your extensions tab in your current window .


  • chrome://browser/content/preferences/cookies.xul
    This will Open the “cookies window” inside a tab in the Firefox window.


  • chrome://browser/content/preferences/sanitize.xul
    This will Open the “Clear Private Data” window inside the current tab.


  • chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul
    This will Open the “About Firefox” Dialog box inside the tab.


  • chrome://browser/content/credits.xhtml
    This will Open a scrolling list of names. The one’s who we must thank for creating Firefox


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Google tricks!

Google Calculator:
Google search can be used as a calculator. It can calculate anything from the simplest math to the most complex equation. All you need to do is just enter the math in the search box and hit enter. You can use the following functions:
+ - Add
- - Subtract
* - Multiply
/ - Divide
^ - To the Power Of
sqrt - Square Root of a Number

Dictionary Definitions:
You can define any word by entering “define:” following the word. For example define: ignoble
Google will display a list of dictionary definitions for that word.


Search for a Specific Title:
Suppose you came across a great article which you really liked but unfortunately forgot to bookmark it, then you can find it easily with the help of Google provided you know the title of the article. Here’s how you do it:
Let’s say you read an article “Women talk three times as much as men” then you can search for it by typing “intitle: Women talk three times as much as men”


Google Converter:
Using this feature you can convert units like millimeter into inches, kilometers into miles, liters into ml, etc. You can do so by typing ‘25km in miles’ for converting km in to miles, ‘50litres in ml’ for converting litres into ml, and so on.


Google Currency Converter:
Google’s search has an inbuilt currency converter. It allows you to perform any currency conversion. All you need to do is just enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and hit “Enter” or click the Google Search button. For instance: “1 USD in INR”


Weather Updates:
You can easily know the weather condition of a specific place. In order to find out, all you need to do is just enter the place name followed by “weather”. For ex: “london weather”


Search on a Particular File Types:
There are various kinds of files available over the net. Searching for a specific file type isn’t really easy. But using this tip you can easily search for a specific file type.
For instance if you want to search for a guide, let’s say a ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career’ in ppt format. You can make use of the “filetype:” function. So in order to search for the PPT version of the guide you can enter in search bar ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career filetype:ppt’


Search on a Particular Website:
If you want to search for something from a particular site using Google search then you can do so by using the “site:” feature. Here’s how you do it:
Let’s say you want to search for cloverfield DVD on Amazon, you can do so by typing “cloverfield DVD site:[url]www.amazon.com”[/url]


Get the Local Time anywhere:
Wanna know what time is it in London now? You can ask Google by typing “what time is it London” in the search bar. You can also enter “time (location)” without the quotes.


Remove Unwanted Search Results:
Suppose you wanted to search a Harry potter book review but you ended up in getting reviews of the movie rather than the book. Well in this case you can make Google to exclude the movie results from the search. You can do so by adding “-movie” at the end of the term. For instance: “Harry potter Chamber of secrets -movie” This will give search results excluding the movie- The chamber of secrets.


Search for URL's:
You can even search for URLs in Google search.For instance: “Women_talk_three_times_as_much_as_men”. You can also use “.” “-” instead of “_“. The search will bring up results with the URLs containing the above words entered.


Track Flight Status:
You can also track a particular flight status. All you need to do is just enter the airline and flight number into the search box and hit enter. You’ll get the arrival and departure time of the flight right inside Google’s search results.


Search Google Groups by the Subject Line:
You need to be in the google groups search page before attempting this query; otherwise it might not work correctly. Using the “insubject:” function you can search google groups by the subject line. For instance “insubject:windows xp fast shutdown”


Find Related Sites:
Suppose you find an interesting website and you would like to find some other alternative to this site then you can do so by using “related:” function. For instance if you want to search an alternative for google.com you can do so by entering “related:[url]www.google.com”[/url]


Find Links to a Specific URL:
You can find the webpages which have a link to a specific URL using the “link:” function. This is really great as it will help you if you own a website, you can easily find out the pages linking to a page in your site. To use it, you need to enter the whole URL after “link:”
For instance “link:[url]https://www.cnn.com”[/url]
Well that’s it for now, hope you liked them. If you know more feel free to mention them here.


Whois Lookup Service:
You can also search for information on a particular domain name. Just type in “whois domain.com” and hit enter. You’ll get to see the creation and expiry dates of the domain.
Suggests Words, Phrases and their Results:
This is really helpful if you aren’t able to spell a particular word or you would like to know the results a particular word would contain when searched.

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Surf the internet without a browser!

Ever find yourself sitting in front of a computer where Internet Explorer or Firefox was blocked by IT Administrator, and restricted you from installing any software? If that PC is running Windows XP, then there is chance for you to still surf Internet. Just follow these simple steps:

Open Calculator, Start> Program Files> Accessories> Calculator or press Windows+R and type ‘calc’ in the run box, click OK.
In Calculator, go to Help> Help Topics.
Right click on the left hand side of the title bar and click on ‘Jump to URL’.
Type in the URL and make sure include the ‘[url]https://’[/url] at the beginning.

Note:
Basically what you are looking at is Internet Explorer 6 inside a help window, but this version of program isn’t quite smart as Internet 6. This was tested in Windows XP SP2 with Internet Explorer 6 and I’m not sure whether it will works in Internet Explorer 7 installed computer.

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Set multiple homepages in firefox!

Have you ever wanted to have multiple homepages?
If yes, then you are in the right place. Here’s the way to do this little but useful trick.
Suppose you would like to set Nextgenupdate, Google and Facebook as your homepages. Then try this tweak in Firefox to set multiple homepages. This is what you should do.

1.Go to Tools>Options>Main
2.In the When Firefox starts drop down menu choose Show my home page.
3.In Home page give your homepages separated by a | (pipe symbol).
Example
    https://www.hackforums.net/|https://www.google.com|https://www.facebook.com/

4.Click OK

Now next time when you start Firefox all of your three home pages will be displayed simultaneously.

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Block & unblock websites without software

Many times in schools, colleges & offices surfing some sites are banned.
To overcome this you can unblock these or block some other websites

Follow the Instructions Below:
1.Open the folder
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

2.There you will find a file named HOSTS
3.Click on the file and right click.
4.From the right click menu select Open with.
5.Now, select Notepad to open the file from the list.
6.Now, in the file under the line 127.0.0.1 localhost add another line as 127.0.0.2 You must login or register to view this content. > Save.

Now, open your web browser and try opening You must login or register to view this content., it will not load.
To unblock sites just do the opposite.


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Make folders invisible without software!

Guys, as you can guess with this trick you can make your folders invisible without using any sophisticated software. This is a very unusual & easy trick to make your private folders invisible to others.

A folder contains two parts; an icon and a name. So to make the folder invisible you will have to make both the icon & the name invisible.

Making The Name Invisible:
Select the folder which you want to make invisible. Press F2 key then type ALT+0160 and hit enter key. You will notice that the name of the folder has become invisible. See the image below.


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Making The Icon Invisible:
Right click on the folder whose name you made invisible. Go to Properties, then go to the Customize tab. Then click on the Change Icon button. Select any blank icon there. Remember there will be many blank icons (see image). Just choose any one. Click OK.


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Now your folder is invisible! Now you just need to remember which one is which.

Alternative method using CMD..

The most important thing is that, once hidden with this method, the files/folders cannot be viewed by any search options even if you click "Show All Hidden Files and Folders".

Hiding the most wanted files and folders is very important nowadays and it's really a tedious job too. In order to make this tedious job an easy one, i'm going to deliver you a the trick now.

For Example: You have a folder named "collegephotos" and this folder is stored in (Disk Drive E). You think that it should not be seen by strangers who use your PC.

For that you need to follow the following instructions:

  • Press windowkey+R: Run command dialog box appears.
  • Now type "cmd" and hit enter. A command prompt window displays.
  • Now type "attrib +s +h E:\collegephotos" and hit enter.
  • The folder "collegephotos" will be hidden (Note: It cannot be viewed by any search options)


(To view this folder again, use the same command but replace '+' with '-' on both flags 's' and 'h'Winky Winky

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Windows Vista tricks!

Vista Auto Shutdown
This is a very cool program I picked up a while ago which allows you to shutdown your computer during the middle of the night. This is very useful for downloading films/albums/programs when you think they are going to take quite a few hours during the night to download.

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Multiple clocks
With a massive increase in soclal networking use the likelihood is you will have friends that are spread out across the world. With*Windows Vista, you can display up to*3 clocks, each representing a different time zone. You know immediately what time is in your friend's country. There are other purposes this is just one example. Follow to the steps below:

1.In Windows Vista, click the clock in the notification area, right of the taskbar.
2.The clock and a complete schedule appear. Click Change settings of the date and time.
3.Open Additional Clocks tab.
4.Then check the Show this clock, select a new time zone and then give a name to the clock.
5.You can then repeat the operation for a third clock. Click OK when you are finished.

Make Windows Vista admin account act like XP
On Windows Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate:
1.Click Start, type secpol.msc in the search box, then press Enter
2.From the list to the left, choose Local Policies, then Security Options
3.Set Accounts: Administrator account status to Enabled
4.Set User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account to Disabled

On Windows Vista Home Basic or Home Premium:
1.Click Start, type cmd in the search box, right click on the program cmd.exe and select Run as Administrator
2.In the command prompt window, type net users Administrator /active:yes then press Enter, you should receive a confirmation saying; The command completed successfully
3.Click Start, type regedit in the search box, then press Enter
4.Navigate to the section: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]*
Double click FilterAdministratorToken and set it to 0
5.Next, logoff and you will see a new Administrator account is available. Login to this new Administrator account

Your now logged in to Windows Vista with full administrative rights.
You will not receive any security prompts like before and you should
have complete administrative rights to your machine.

Disable the Welcome Center in Windows Vista
1.Click START -> RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2.Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_USER then SOFTWARE then Microsoft then Windows then CurrentVersion then Run
3.Right-click on the WindowsWelcomeCenter key and select Delete.

Use check boxes to select files
When you want to select multiple files in Windows Explorer,you can hold down the [Ctrl] key as you click on each file. If the files are in consecutive order, you can select the first file, hold down the [Shift] key and select the last file. However, when using either of these techniques, it’s easy to slip up and have to start all over.

To enable this feature
1.launch Windows Explorer, press the [Alt] key to toggle the Menu Bar on
2.Pull down the Tools menu, and select Folder Options.
3.When you see the Folder Options dialog box, select the Viewtab.
4.Then, under the Advanced Settings scroll down to the bottom of the list and select the Use Check Boxes To Select Items checkbox.
5.Click OK to complete the operation.

Hide Secret Data Inside Any File
There's any number of great ways to hide data from prying eyes—TrueCrypt, anyone? But if you want to simply hide some text data inside a secret "compartment", you can abuse the Alternate Data Streams feature in the underlying NTFS file system. All you have to do is open up a command prompt, and then use a command similar to this:
    notepad SomeFile.txt:SecretWordHere.txt


The special filename with the colon and second filename tells NTFS to actually store the data in an alternate stream, instead of the regular file. You can put whatever you want into the file, and nobody will be able to access it unless they know the command to retrieve it.

Remove Old Drivers by Showing Hidden Devices in Device Manager
Once you've upgraded your PC's hardware, you won't see the old devices sitting around anymore in the Device Manager, but rest assured that they are still there. If you want to clean up all the old drivers, you can use a special trick to enable hidden devices by simply typing the following into a command prompt:
    SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1


Once you've done that, type in devmgmt.msc to open up Device Manager, and then you can use View –> Show hidden devices to show all the devices you couldn't see before.

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Windows 7 tricks!

Speed up display of Thumbnails on the taskbar
A really cool thing about taskbar is that when you hover mouse over it, you see the thumbnail previews of all the open windows of that application. There is a slight delay before you see the thumbnails, so now I am going to speed up the thumbnail view.

Follow these steps:
1.Go to start menu , type regedit and then open the registry editor.
2.Browse to the following key:- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Mouse
3.Double click on the MouseHoverTime .the default value is 400(miliseconds). Change this value to 100 or 150(it’s your choice) and close the editor.
4.Now you will have to log off or restart you system to see the changes.


Customize your own task bar icons

Would you like to change out the icons on your taskbar with a beautiful set of icons that all go together? Here’s how you can change out the random candy-colored icons for a stylish icon set of your choice.

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Sometimes when rightclicking the icons nothing will change so using these following steps you can create custom icons:

1.Open the folder that contains all of your pinned icons by entering the following in the Explorer address bar
    %appdata%/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/User Pinned/Taskbar

2.Select all of the icons, and copy them to a new folder. We just used a new folder on the desktop for this, as you’ll only need to store them in the new location temporarily.
3.Once you’ve got the icons in the new folder, right-click one and select Properties.
4.Select the Shortcut tab if it doesn’t automatically open to it, and click Change Icon.
5.Now click Browse to find the new icon you want.

6.You can switch the icon to any icon from an .ico, .exe, or .dll file that contains icons, but if you’re using an icon set to get a harmonious look, then you’ll likely be using .ico files. Once you’ve select the icon you want, click Ok in the previous dialogs to save your changes.
7.Now, repeat this with all the icons in your folder. This will take a few minutes, but when you’re done, you should have a harmonious set of icons for your taskbar.

Unfortunately, some shortcuts are more tricky, and won’t let you change the icon. When we tried to change the icons on any Office apps or certain other programs, the Change Icon button was dimmed and unusable.

1.Instead, we’ll need to create a new shortcut to this program. Right-click in the folder or on your desktop, and select New –> Shortcut.
2.In the dialog, enter the path to the application you want, and click Next to finish the wizard.
3.Now customize this new shortcut as before.

Once you’ve got all your new icons, you’ll need to unpin your existing shortcuts from the taskbar. Right-click or click and drag up on each icon to open its jumplist, and then select Unpin this program from taskbar.

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Now, drag your new icons to your taskbar, and line them up as you want.
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Voila!


How to add "My Dropbox" to the Start Menu
we’re huge fans of Dropbox, the amazingly fast online file sync utility, but I’d be even happier if we could natively add it to the Windows 7 Start Menu, where it belongs.

Yep, that’s right. You can add it to the Start Menu… using a silly hack to the Libraries feature and renaming the Recorded TV library to a different name. It’s not a perfect solution, but you can access your Dropbox folder this way and it just seems to belong there.

  • First things first, head into the Customize Start Menu panel by right-clicking on the start menu and using Properties, then make sure that Recorded TV is set to “Awesome faceisplay as a link”.


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Next, right-click on Recorded TV, choose Rename, and then change it to something else like My Dropbox. (on the start menu)

Now you’ll want to right-click on that button again, and choose Properties, where you’ll see the Library locations in the list… the general idea is that you want to remove Recorded TV, and then add your Dropbox folder.

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Oh, and you’ll probably want to make sure to set “Optimize this library for” to “General Items”.

At this point, you can just click on My Dropbox, and you’ll see, well, Your Dropbox! (no surprise there).

Get a Power Efficiency Report(Laptop)
Have a laptop and want to get more battery life out of it? Windows 7 includes a hidden built-in tool that will examine your laptop's energy use and make recommendations on how to improve it. To use it:

1.Run a command prompt as an administrator. To do this, type cmd in the search box, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose "Run as administrator."
2.At the command line, type in the following:
    powercfg -energy -output \Folder\Energy_Report.html


where \Folder represents the folder where you want the report to be placed.

3.For about a minute, Windows 7 will examine the behavior of your laptop. It will then analyze it and create a report in HTML format in the folder you specified. Double-click the file, and you'll get a report - follow its recommendations for ways to improve power performance.

Search the Internet from the Start Menu
The Start Menu's search box is a convenient way to search through your PC -- but you can also have it do double-duty and perform Internet searches as well. To enable this feature:

1. In the Start Menu search box, type GPEDIT.MSC and press Enter to run the Group Policy Editor.
2.Go to User Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> Start Menu and Taskbar.
3.Double-click "Add Search Internet link to Start Menu," and from the screen that appears, select Enabled. Then click OK and close the Group Policy Editor.
4.From now on, when you type a search term in the Search box on the Start Menu, a "Search the Internet" link will appear. Click the link to launch the se

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Personalise your own google logo and BG(Firefox)!

Change the Google Logo:

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  • After installing, open Google.
  • Double click the Google Logo and a box will appear with two text Boxes, for title and color.
  • Type your own text and assign any color for each word.
  • Different numbers represent different color: 1 – Blue, 2 – Red, 3 – Yellow, 4 – Green or other – Random
  • Click on the “Change” Button.
  • Thats it! Enjoy your new Personalized Google Logo!


Change Google Background:

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  • Enter the name and upload the picture.
  • Click on Create Here

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You will see your own picture as Background. Bookmark it and make it as your homepage. Every time you open your browser your saved personalized page will appear.

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Create Zip files online free & easy!

NippyZip:

  • Visit You must login or register to view this content., upload individual files, let NippyZip do its magic then download the zipped file.
  • NippyZip is a provider of a free and secure online compression utility for all your files. Email your zipped files to friends, family, associates or work colleagues. Download zipped files for your own personal use while on the move, in the office or at home.


Gmail:
Send the files you want to zip to your Gmail address as attachments. Open the email, click on "Download All Attachments". Gmail will automatically send you a zipped file.

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Youtube tricks!

Internet users face problems accessing Youtube website when different countries decide to try internet censorship and ISPs block access to Youtube You could be staying in countries like the UK and USA and may not be able to watch certain videos on Youtube. The message “This video is not available in your country” comes up. Now this is not because of any censorship or ISPs blocking access to this video but this is because the owner and poster of videos use Youtube filters to limit these videos to one or more countries.

I'm aware that alot of BBC programs are blocked in the US.

Youtube determines your physical location (country) from the IP address of your computer. This trick can bypass this country-specific limitation.

If the URL of Youtube Video is:
    https://www_youtube.com/watch?v=abcdefghijk


Replace /watch?v=part with /v so that your new URL is now:
    https://www_youtube.com/v/abcdefghijk


Thats it! Now you can watch a blocked YouTube video in your Country | Location.


Want to watch a youtube video on repeat?

Type "repeat" into a YouTube URL before the ".com" to watch it on repeat:
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Command prompt on right click

Many computer users, especially programmers, need to launch a command prompt window every once in a while to execute some dos/shell commands. The problem is, when a command prompt window launched, the default path is normally the system path or the user profile's path. The users will then have to do all the "cd" commands to change the directories to the path he or she wants.

This trick shows you how to add an option called "Command Prompt" when you right-click on a folder in Windows. With this option, a Command Prompt Window will launch and its current directory will be the path to the folder you've selected.

Use this trick at your own risk

Here's what you'll get:

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The Solution:
You can either edit your registry OR download the registry file and apply it on your computer.

Method 1. Manually edit the registry:

1.Start > Run
2.Enter "regedit" and hit Enter
3.Expand to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell"
4.Right-click on "shell" and select New > Key
5.Make sure a new key is created under "shell". Change the name of this key to "Command Prompt"
6.Right-click on this new key "Command Prompt" and select New > Key
7.Change the name of this key to "command"
8.Here's what we should have:
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9.Double-click on the "(Default)" text on the right window to bring up the edit box
10.Enter this text into the Value Data field:
    cmd.exe "%1"

11.Click OK and close the registry.


Method 2. Download and apply the registry file:

1.Download this registry file You must login or register to view this content.
2.Unzip it to a temp folder, then double-click on the .reg file to add the registry data.
Last edited by Liam ; 08-30-2011 at 11:59 PM.

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08-27-2011, 09:03 PM #2
NeedaLifeSoon
Retired Life
Damn Liam, That is really a good thread, lots of good tips in one spot:y: and well put together Smile
08-27-2011, 10:38 PM #3
Curt
Former Staff
Nice thread man, really nicely set out :y:
08-29-2011, 07:24 PM #4
Webby
Samurai Poster
Good thread, my friend :y:
08-29-2011, 07:30 PM #5
Pedo Leader
I’m too L33T
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08-29-2011, 08:00 PM #6
Liam
In my man cave
Originally posted by Pedo
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I never realised however there are only a few things the same such as invisible folders and show your name on windows clock. This is a vast collection of everything
08-29-2011, 08:01 PM #7
Pedo Leader
I’m too L33T
Originally posted by Liam View Post
I never realised however there are only a few things the same such as invisible folders and show your name on windows clock. This is a vast collection of everything
Ok i thought it was the same because of the title!
08-30-2011, 12:31 PM #8
i--DanieL_
Edgier than an octagon
I will put the invisible folder trick to very good use. Winky Winky
08-30-2011, 12:34 PM #9
Como
Here's to Loonyology!
Why don't you read some before you comment then? Typical ngu user ^^^^^

Nice thread Liam, beats the socks off the other thread posted, which is a clear copy and paste (even some of the pics have been removed by the photobucket account which owned them, showing that not all pictures on the thread are from the same account! Therefore a bodge job of several peoples works) and also the thread is so long it becomes boring after the first 2 paragraphs. Poor effort in my opinion.

Very nice layout and easy to read mate, thanks for the tips. Especially the firefox one, didn't know about those bits and pieces to help it run smoother.

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08-30-2011, 12:34 PM #10
Laney
Ex-Staff
S'lookin' good mate

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