Find the Temp Folder in Vista and Windows 7

Vista and Windows 7 don't use the same location for temporary files as XP does. Here's an easy way to get the full path of the Temp folder. Click the Start orb, enter CMD, and press Enter. In the resulting Command Prompt enter the command ECHO %TEMP%. This displays the full path of the actual Temp folder. It will normally take the form C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Temp, where username is your user account name.

One way to view that folder is to use the CD (or CHDIR) command right in that Command Prompt, enclosing the full pathname in quotes if it contains any spaces.

If you want to view the folder in Windows Explorer you may run into one small problem; the AppData folder is marked as hidden. Supposing you can't see that folder, you'll need to do this. Press F10 for a menu in Windows Explorer and choose Tools | Folder Options. Click the View tab. Choose the option "Show hidden files and folders" ("Show hidden files, folders and drives" in Windows 7) and click OK. Now you can navigate all the way to the Temp folder

Clearing Memory Cache

When your computer is running for quite some time, you will notice that it slows down due to idle processes. You can use this method to free up unused RAM and speed up your computer. It requires you to create a desktop shortcut and then open it to clear the memory cache.

First right-click anywhere on the desktop and select New > Shortcut.


Now enter the following line when asked for location of the shortcut and hit Next:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks


Give it any name and hit Finish.


Now open this newly created shortcut and you will notice a slightly better performance

configure a SOCKS proxy server

Inspired by my wife's difficulty connecting to the internet due to new security policies at her organization, I decided to try a proxy to allow her to use Windows Live Messenger.


The Linux SOCKS proxy server implementation these days is made under the name DANTE

• edit the config file (/etc/socks/sockd.conf). 
• It is in this file logging is enabled via the syslog mechanism and internal and external addresses are bound. Whereas the internal bindings include a port specification, the external one does not.
   
• The comments are well formed I'd also spend a little time looking them over.
  
  The details:
  

  logoutput: syslog
  
  internal: eth1 port = 1080
  internal: 127.0.0.1 port = 1080
  
  external: 1.2.3.4
  # or
  external: eth0

  To achieve full access (no username/password).
  

  method: username none
  
  # Not using authentication, so unnecessary
  #user.privileged: proxy
  
  user.notprivileged: nobody

  The access controls for sockd daemon are last. They are checked against in the order they appear in the configuration file. Notice, don't open your proxy server to the wild world - you've been warned.The first three directives control which IP ranges that have accesss to the server.
  
  - The from: is were the details of the IPs are added. In my cause it is the IP space the clients live in.
  - The to: option is one of the IPs the proxy server is bound to that the given IP range can speak to. It is set to the addresses Dante/sockd is listening on.
  The last of the three drops any requests that don't match either of the first two directives.
  
  
  

  client pass {
  from:  192.168.0.0/16 port 1-65535 to: 0.0.0.0/0
  }
  
  client pass {
  from:  127.0.0.0/8 port 1-65535 to: 0.0.0.0/0
  }
  
  client block {
  from:  0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
  log: connect error
  }

  The next four configuration points control who 'routing'.
  - Requests from anywhere to the loopback addresses are dropped.
  - From the loopback addresses and 192.168.0.0/16 are allowed to communicated over tcp or udp protocols.
  - Finally, drop everything else. 
  
  

  block {
  from:  0.0.0.0/0 to: 127.0.0.0/8
  log: connect error
  }
  
  pass {
  from:  192.168.0.0/16 to: 0.0.0.0/0
  protocol: tcp udp
  }
  
  pass {
  from:  127.0.0.0/8 to: 0.0.0.0/0
  protocol: tcp udp
  }
  
  block {
  from:  0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
  log: connect error
  }

• Start Dante/sockd.
  

  sockd -V 
  sockd -d

Restore Panels In Ubuntu Back To Their Default Settings

Messed up your panels in Gnome?

Maybe your new to Ubuntu and accidentally deleted items or the panel itself and now you can't figure out how to get it back.

Sure, you can add a new panel and rebuild it by adding the items back on the panel.
Instead of going through the trouble, there is an easy fix that will restore your panels back to their default settings quickly.

Open up a Terminal window, by clicking on Applications \ Accessories \ Terminal. Or, if you deleted the top panel and cannot access the menus, just press ALT+F2 and in the run dialog box, type gnome-terminal then click on Run.

You can also browse for applications, such as Terminal from the Run window, by clicking on the arrow icon next to 'Show list of known applications" and browse for Terminal.

Once the Terminal window opens, enter the following command at the prompt:

gconftool-2 – -shutdown

(Note: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)

gconftool – -recursive-unset /apps/panel

(Remember: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)

Then enter the next command:

rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

And enter one more command:

pkill gnome-panel

Both top and bottom panels will appear (if missing) with their default settings. Now you can customize them to your preference and get on with using Ubuntu.

Firefox Cpu Cycles

1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter to get the Firefox expert configuration page.

2. Type browser.cache.disk.capacity in the Filter text box.

3. Modify the value to 16384

4. Restart Firefox

try it
it works fro me inf Firefox 3.5.7

Firefox essencial tips

1. To quickly find any word in a web page type /word it will highlight the word and press Ctrl+G to “Find Again” that word again

2. If you wish to remove an item from your Address Bar Drop down menu,Highlight it without clicking and use Shift+Delete.

3. Clear your Download history to make the download manager more
responsive : Tools | Options | Privacy

4. Type about:cache?device=disk in your address bar to view/save items
that you have in your firefox disk cache

5. Type about:cache?device=memory in your address bar to view/save items
that you have in your Firefox memory cache

6. Drag any link to the Download Manager Window to add & download the link.

7. If you accidentally delete a bookmark and want to recover it,
open the “Bookmarks Manager”
and use Ctrl+Z,
or Edit | Undo.

8. Double Clicking empty space on the Tab Bar will open a ‘New Tab’

9. Holding down the Ctrl key when you right click
to “View Image” or “View Background Image” will open the image in a NewTab or New Window.

10. A bookmarks Folder’s position can also be Dragged & Dropped but you must hold down the SHIFT key while Dragging.

11. To prevent a website from replacing/changing your righ tclick context menu
go to Tools > Options > Web Features then click the “advanced tab” and de-select “remove or replace context menus”.

12. You can work offline in Firefox just go to File > Work Offline.
This means that you can browse your previously visited pages even when you’re offline this is a really cool feature but not many people who use it.

13. You can bookmark the current page by dragging the icon from the location bar to your Bookmarks folder.
You can also drag it to the desktop to make an icon for that page.

14. To stop animated gifs from moving, press the ESC key.

that all i got
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