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The Tweaking with Vishal web site writes up a quick registry hack that adds Recycle Bin, Network Connections, Admin Tools, or even Search to your My Computer window. - lebaron

Version 3.3 of the Microsoft Network Monitor has been released a few months ago. The Network Monitor application has been designed for capturing and analysing of network traffic. The new version of Network Monitor added a few exciting features to the network monitoring software including the ability to add so called Experts – standalone applications – to the software which analyze data captured by Network Monitor. - lebaron

Yahoo Mail new interface makes it real easy in sending free SMS to any mobile phone. There is no registration, you only need two things: a free Yahoo Mail account and mobile phone number where you want to send the free SMS. To get started, you need to switch from classic Yahoo Mail to new Yahoo Mail - here is the simple procedure: - lebaron

You already know that if you want to lock down your Wi-Fi network, you should opt for WPA encryption because WEP is easy to crack. But did you know how easy? Take a look. - lebaron

Publiée le 15/04/2003 vers 0h. Ce programme vous permettra de créer des archives auto-extractibles. Parcourez : c:\windows\system32 Puis double-cliquez sur : iexpress.exe Un assistant se lancera et suivez le … - lebaron

Il existe une petite manipulation dans le registre pour arrêter le système un peu plus rapidement. Exécuter regedit. Recherchez la chaîne : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control. Dans le dossier "Control" faite un clique droit puis "Nouveau", "Valeur DWORD" que vous nommerai : WaitToKillServiceTimeout. Donnez-lui la valeur 1000 par exemple qui correspond en fait à 1 seconde. ATTENTION : Il est possible que la valeur existe déjà. Dans ce cas modifiez simplement sa valeur. En modifiant cette valeur vous prenez le risque de ne pas avoir le temps de fermer vos applications correctement et d'enregistrer votre travail. - lebaron

First of all, let me tell you that if you are here looking for a Docx converter, you’d better read these articles on how to convert .Doc to .Docx, how to save .Doc in Office 2007 and the great Dicx2Rft free converter. If instead you wish to cut off the boring procedure to convert a file to something else in order to read it, maybe the free application I am going to talk about is for you. As a matter of fact, Word Reader lets you open any .Doc and .Docx file without Microsoft Office suite. - lebaron

WinUpdatesList v1.23 is a freeware that shows a catalog of Windows updates that are set up in your computer. These updates refer to Hotfix and Service Packs updates. In case of hotfixes the software permits the user to view which files have been updated with them. This information is shown in the main window. You can also access the MS web venue Web Link that supplies details about a chosen update. To get the additional details select the update and choose Open-web-link in the file menu. - lebaron

Windows: Notepad++, a light but reliable text editor we included in our 2009 Lifehacker Pack of essential Windows downloads, gets even more reliable with a free, configurable auto-saving plug-in. - lebaron

Windows XP et 2000 ne vident pas automatiquement le contenu de Pagefile.sys (fichier d'échange) lorsque vous redémarrez votre PC. Comme certains programmes peuvent stocker des informations non cryptées en mémoire virtuelle, par mesure de sécurité, il peut s'avérer utile de vider ce fichier à chaque arrêt. Pour cela: * Cliquez sur Démarrer, puis Exécuter * Saisissez regedit puis cliquez sur OK * Recherchez la clé HKey_Local_Machine/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management * Sélectionnez la valeur ClearPageFileAtShutdown * Mettez sa valeur à 1 pour l'activer - lebaron

I found this really cool trick when i was checking on my PC settings and came to know that i can add virtual RAM to my PC by using extra disk space. So, my 4 GB USB drive which i hardly use, came to work at last and now i use it as a virtual RAM in Windows XP. And yeah… That is not a donut but a working USB drive! :-D - lebaron

En désactivant l'écran de démarrage de Windows vous gagnerai quelques secondes sur le temps d'amorçage de votre machine. Voila comment faire. Clique droit sur le Poste de travail > Propriétés. Onglet avancé puis dans la rubriques "Démarrage et récupération" cliquer sur « Paramètres » puis modifier. Le bloc note s'ouvre alors. Vous devez rajouter /SOS à la dernière instruction. Vous devez obtenir la ligne suivante : multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professionnel" /fastdetect /SOS. Redémarrer la machine pour prendre en compte la modification. - lebaron

Most of the file hosting websites do not allow to download more than one file at the same time for a free user.It determines the I.P address of the user and limits the I.P address to download only one file at a time.RDesc is a new program which allows you to automate and simultaneously download multiple files from Megaupload,4Shared,ZShare,Easy-Share,Netload,Hotfile and much more. RDesc Features RDesc is a freeware utility which automates download of files from multiple hosts as a free user. This software automates the whole process of waiting and downloading files from these hosts for users without premium account.It also allows to download a list of links without any user intervention. - lebaron

Mozilla’s Blair McBride, has released a first Firefox build featuring a command line integrated with the awesome bar to perform some basic tasks. As you may recall, Taskfox, is a project that aims to integrate some of Ubiquity’s command line abilities into Firefox to for example perform searches with inline previews, alter page contents, insert maps, schedule events, share web pages, search tabs, and a very long, etc. This early release brings all your search engines to the awesome bar: as you start typing in it, search engines which name match the typed strings are suggested, press space bar to select it and then some keywords to perform a search. - lebaron

A lot of users prefer PDF documents over Word documents because they are read-only by nature, and hence tamper proof. But did you know that there are all kinds of security features built into Microsoft Word, and that it allows creation of Word documents that prevent users from editing it either completely or partially? That feature exist since Microsoft Word 2003 and an extra feature was introduced in Word 2007. - lebaron