How To Block Websties Without Software

Steps:

1] Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

2] Find the file named "HOSTS"

3] Open it in notepad

4] Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" Add 127.0.0.2 www.sitenameyouwantblocked.com , and that site will no longer be accessable.

5] Done!

-So-

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.2 www.blockedsite.com

-->www.blockedsite.com is now unaccessable<--

For every site after that you want to add, just add "1" to the last number in the internal ip (127.0.0.2) and then the addy like before.

IE: 127.0.0.3 www.blablabla.com

127.0.0.4 www.blablabla.com

127.0.0.5 www.blablabla.com

etc

Great Tip For Mp3 Searching On Google

go to google copy and paste in

?intitle:index.of? mp3

and after mp3 put in an artist or album or whatever and hit enter... what you get is lists of downloadable mp3s

eg:

?intitle:index.of? mp3 santana

Another trick:

Use the following

inurl:microsoft filetype:iso

You can change the string to watever you want, ex. microsoft to adobe, iso to zip etc…

Another trick: http://www.google.com/ie?q=parent-directory+"Warez"+exe+OR+zip+OR+rar+OR+gzip+OR+tar+OR+bzip&num=100

Replace "Warez" with "Gamez" "Mp3" anything you like....

Mozilla Firefox, Speed it up!

• Type "about :config" in the adress field.
• Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".
• Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".
• Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"
• Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0" (not availible in newer versions)

Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft 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%.

I have tested on XP Pro, and 2000 other o/s not tested.

Creating custom entry in Run Dialog

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths

Tweak: Right Click on “App Paths”. Select New-> Key. Give it the name u want, with “.exe” extension. In the Right Pane, Double Click on the “Default” entry and write the full location of the file. No Need to restart or logoff the computer.

Cant See Secure Sites

Fix the problem with seeing them secrue sites (banks or online stores) i found this very usefull to me at my work (isp backbone support lol, at the time i was regular support )

Any way... what u need to do is make a new notepad file and write in it the followng DLL's.. just copy-paste these

regsvr32 SOFTPUB.DLL

regsvr32 WINTRUST.DLL

regsvr32 INITPKI.DLL

regsvr32 dssenh.dll

regsvr32 Rsaenh.dll

regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll

regsvr32 sccbase.dll

regsvr32 slbcsp.dll

regsvr32 Cryptdlg.dll

and save it as > all file types, and make it something like securefix.bat.

then just run the file and ur problem shuld be gone.

Display a detailed information of your Windows XP version in the bottom right corner of your desktop

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

PaintDesktopVersion=dword:00000000

Tweak: This is a DWORD Value. Just double click on the entry and change 0 to 1

Make Menus Faster when u stop with mouse on them

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

MenuShowDelay=400

Tweak: Change it to anything less and watch your menus pop faster(e.g.: start menu)

Change The amount of Time after which a hung application will close itself

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

HungAppTimeout"="5000"

Tweak: Make it 0