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

Nevertheless, AirSnare can be a valuable tool. The main window shows three major categories on the left: Network Adapters, Unfriendly MAC Addresses and Friendly MAC Addresses. To start monitoring your network connections, double click the respective network adapter(s) or right-click and select >Start. Then watch for detection of unfriendly MAC addresses. You can manually add friendly MAC addresses by right-clicking the category and selecting >Add New or you right-click on a MAC address reported as unfriendly and select >Add to Trus

WARNING : BEFORE making any changes to the Windows registry, it is highly recommended to make a backup in case anything goes wrong. To backup your Windows registry, tap your Windows key on the keyboard and "R". When the Run box comes up, type regedit . When the Registry box comes up, go to 'File' then 'Export'. Save the resulting file to your hard dr

Now if you did follow all of the advice, is your wireless network safe? Probably not. Even the strongest encryption can be hacked, every firewall has a hole and if someone really wants to break in, they will find a way. It's not very likely, but it's still possi

The AirHorn option is a cool idea, but as of Windows XP SP2 won't work, if the windows firewall is on and the messenger service is turned off on the receiving machine. I couldn't get the >Send E-mail on alert option to work eit

With a bit of discipline you can have the flood of eMails that are arriving in your inbox each and every day nicely sorted within minutes and you'll never again miss an important message that reaches your inbox totally unfilte

1. Go to "Start," "Run," and type regedit .2. Navigate to the following: HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop 3. Find the key labeled "MenuShowDelay" and right-click, then click Modify .4. Change the value to whatever you like. (The range is 0-999 in millisecon

Of course you cannot just sort mails into folders. You can have the message filters perform several other actions as seen in the menu pictured above. For example, automatically "Mark As Read", "Tag Message" or (the coolest) reply with a template. If required you can have the message filter carry out multiple actions on the same eM

In the folder, you will see all of the items that show up in the drop down. Most of these are actually shortcuts to those places, though a few are drives, commands to zip, or special system shortcuts to places like the Desktop or 'My Documents'. Because they're shortcuts, any other shortcuts you place in this folder will also show up in your Send To drop d

Notice that the Send To folder is somewhat transparent, indicating it is a hidden folder. If your hidden folders are not visible, go into "Tools->Folder Options->View (Tab)->Show Hidden Folders." Once you have done this you are ready to go into your Send To fol

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Portable Firefox - The Web Browser is your door to the Internet, so first and foremost secure it. Use the portable version of Firefox from you USB drive as opposed to the browser on the public compu

Voila! This is a really useful little tool for me because I often need to play with several different types of files and find the best place to do that is on the Desktop. When I'm done using those files I either delete them or toss them into their relevant folders for safe keeping. 'Send To' now allows me to send all my screenshots in a batch into the Screenshots folder. This is also handy if you have any folders that take specific actions when items are added to t

If you're like me, you frequently need to move the same types of files to the same places over and over again. While you could keep a shortcut pointing to that location on your Desktop, there's an even easier (and more flexible) way to quickly move files to a favorite place. The secret lies in the "Send To" command found in your right-click contextual m

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

At this point you're probably either thinking, "what command where?" or "that has a function?" Hopefully we'll answer both of those in that order for you. First, right-click on any file or folder. Notice that the "contextual" menu, that is, the menu that drops down from your cursor, has several options on it. The one we're interested in is "Send To." Once you run your mouse over the 'Send To' command, it drops down with a list of locati

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, Windows System Optimization|Https://Windowsmastery.Com/ and waste time. Here is how you can disable these annoying uac notifications, quickly and eas