Install Aero Cursor Scheme In Windows XP (1)
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You find many tutorials on the Internet about installing fonts that came with Windows Vista in Windows XP. There are literally hundreds of websites that explain how to change the look and feel of Windows XP so that it resembles a Windows Vista Theme but only a handful that tell you how to use and install the Windows Vista Aero cursor set in Windows XP. The easiest way to install the Windows Vista Aero cursor ...
Bypass Youtube Age Verification (3)
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Youtube uses a flag system that allows users to report videos as inappropriate which according to Youtube means any violation of the Youtube terms of service. A flagged video will be reviewed by an administrator who has numerous options at hand including setting the flag for age verification which requires users to login before they can view the video. Age verification is pretty basic and anyone who cheated on his birthday can watch the video ...
Disable Adobe Updater (3)
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Adobe installs a software called Adobe Updater with many of its products. The updater will automatically connect to the Internet to check for updates for the installed Adobe products. Adobe Updater, that’s the name of the application, will be installed in another folder on the system. Most users probably do not mind the regular automatic update checks but some might prefer to update the Adobe software products manually. This is important in business environments where ...
Network Monitoring Software NetWorx (2)
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Networx is the second network monitoring software on review at Ghacks in the last months. It was recently released in version 4 which is compatible to all Windows operating systems since Windows 98 including 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2008. The network monitoring software can be used to monitor incoming and outgoing bandwidth of selected network adapters and connections. Traffic is shown in graphs and logged in a file ...
Automatic Sleep Mode Wake Up (2)
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Sleep Mode, which is also known ans stand-by, deep sleep and suspend, is a low power mode for electronic devices that saves electronic consumption during that time. Wake Up On Standby is a software program for Microsoft Windows that can return the computer from sleep mode into normal mode, perform tasks and make it go back into sleep mode or perform another shutdown operation afterwards. This tool can be interesting for users who regularly use ...
FTP Server Setup (2)
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Being able to activate a ftp server when needed can be an efficient way of providing file access and file upload capabilities to customers, coworkers and friends. Most users shy away from setting up an ftp server fearing that the setup is complicated and that they might overlook an important setting that will give the connected users access to their whole system and not on the selected virtual directories. Setting up an ftp server is ...
Image Optimization With Smush It (3)
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One important task of being a webmaster is optimizing the elements of a website to provide visitors with a fast loading page. Unoptimized images can increase the page loading time tremendously. It was not uncommon ten years ago to see site headers with 100 Kilobytes and more. This has thankfully changed and it is only occasionally that someone visits a website that makes use of big images like that. Image Optimization has become a tad ...
Run Applications With Lower User Rights (1)
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Many users do still use an administrators user account in Windows XP instead of a more secure limited account. It is comfortable to work as an administrator all the time but successful attacks will be more devastating that way either. Instead of working with a limited account most of the time and an administrators account only when needed users could also increase system security by starting selected applications as a lesser privileged user. The runas ...
Time To Look For A Skype Alternative (4)
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The voice over IP client Skype never got off the radar of privacy activists. There were always rumors about backdoors in the voice communication software and that several organizations were able to record calls made by Skype users although Skype claimed otherwise. Skype messages were in the focus of privacy groups since first news about text filtering messages in China became known to the public. Back then Skype released an official statement that the text ...
Firefox URLBar Extension (4)
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UrlbarExt is an experimental Firefox add-on that adds a few interesting functions to the Firefox location bar. Experimental meaning that users have to log into an account at the Mozilla website to download and install the add-on. It is usually not an indicator of a “not yet ready” add-on. Users who do not have an account but would like to install the add-on could use one of the available logins from Bugmenot instead. Back to ...
Ghacks Birthday Celebration (1)
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Ghacks was founded three years ago on a rainy October evening. Back then I had no plans to become a full time blogger and earn my money from blogging but every now and then life turns out to be sweet and give you chances if you only look out for them. It took more than 18 month before I fully realized the potential of Ghacks. It was back then that I started making plans to ...
Computer Memory Optimizer (2)
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It is common knowledge among computer experts that computer memory optimizers do not work. This has a lot to do with the computer memory tools that have been released back in the days of Windows 95 and Windows 98 which used a simple trick to move computer memory data into the virtual memory thus fooling users into believing that they freed up computer memory. For those who do not know, virtual memory is hard drive ...
Windows Wallpapers From MSN (3)
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Windows Wallpapers from MSN is a beta application and web service that provides Windows users with wallpapers from Microsoft. The software application will automatically check in intervals if new Windows wallpapers are available and download them automatically to the computer system. At the time of testing 156 Windows wallpapers were downloaded to the computer. Wallpapers from MSN is not your usual wallpaper manager though. It displays the Windows wallpapers in an image library and gives ...
Print Relevant Information from a Web Page with PrintWhatYouLike (1)
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Printing web pages can be quite a headache sometimes. More often than not, half the page is taken up by advertisements, menu bars, empty space, and other information that a user just doesn’t want. You pretty much wind up wasting printer ink on a bunch of junk information. One way to make printing more relevant to a web page is to use PrintWhatYouLike. The website helps you format web pages so that you can print ...
How To Deal With Huge Apache Web Server Log Files (2)
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I must admit that I have not been paying attention to the size of some of the Apache web server log files on my dedicated server. For those that do not know, the Apache logs are the log files of the Apache web server. They log every hit to a website and provide excellent material that can be processed by a log file analysis software. This log files can become huge if you have a ...
Task Manager Software Extension (2)
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The default Windows Task Manager provides a good quick overview of the running processes of a computer system but it fails to deliver the information needed to analyze a process. The Task Manager software extension adds an incredible amount of information to the Windows Task Manager. The Task Manager software extension changes the Applications and Processes tab in the Windows Task Manager. The Process ID is shown in the Applications tab while the major changes ...
Atomic Cleaner Cleans Up Game Leftovers (2)
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Most installations on a Windows system leave files behind. This can be temporary files, files that have been created after installation, configuration files or files that have been added by patches. The default file uninstallation routines regularly leave files behind. This can be avoided by using specialized uninstallers (like Revo Uninstaller) that scan a computer system for leftovers and remove them automatically. These files can be deleted manually as well but this usually puts the ...
Is It Reasonable To Offer 1 Terabyte of Storage As A File Hoster? (2)
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Offering the biggest storage capacities of all the file hosts on the Internet will surely drive some traffic to a file hoster’s website. Oosah did just that with the announcement that they would offer 1 Terabyte - that is 1024 Gigabytes - to everyone signing up for their file hosting service. And while they surely have calculated with a mean storage usage instead of the maximum it would still be apparent that a free file ...
Web Proxy Server List (4)
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Keeping up with web proxy servers on the Internet can be a time consuming task. Proxies come and go that quickly that one could say it is nearly impossible to keep up unless someone would use scripts to check the web proxies automatically. The web proxy server list posted on Ghacks dates back two years and the main reason it was not updated is the fact that updating the servers would have to be done ...
Google Chrome Password Manager (1)
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Most modern web browsers make use of a password manager that stores usernames and passwords of websites and services in the browser so that the user does not have to enter them over and over again. Mozilla Firefox and Opera provide access to a password manager in the browser that can be used to manage passwords in the browser. ChromePass is a new software program by Nirsoft that can display the most relevant information that ...
