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After further thinking over this, I decided to search for a way to do this with a key combo or something. Maybe most here already know of this but it's possible to assign a key to any program. To do this:

1) Open the Start menu
2) Find the application in the All Programs menu
3) Right-click the desired program file and choose “Properties”
4) In the Properties dialog, find the text box labeled “Shortcut key”
5) Click in the text box and enter a key that you wish to use in your hotkey. Windows will automatically place “Ctrl + Alt +” in front. If you choose a function key or a numeric keypad key, only that key will be used and “Ctrl + Alt +” will not be added.
6) Click "OK"

Found here.

https://torrent.fedoraproject.... https://tails.boum.org/torrent... and maybe https://www.techsupportalert.c...

You can also put a string into an integer field in regedit, as you tell it what type the key is, not the other way around.

You are confused. Windows registry keys don't have a data type; only registry values have a data type. Registry keys do have an unnamed string default value. When you create, for example, a registry value of REG_DWORD data type, you cannot later enter string data into it (though the RegEdit modify dialog will accept hex values). You cannot change a registry value data type using the RegEdit modify dialogs, and you also won't find that capability provided by the Win32/Win64 API. Some libraries provide it by deleting the old key and creating a new key of the same name with the new data type. A sample of modifying a REG_DWORD value using RegEdit appears near the end of this article.

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I think that's wildly missing the point.

Advertisers bend over backwards to find out your interests voulontarily and send you targeted information. Google lets you know what it thinks it knows about you and, at least the last time I saw it, lets you edit it. Or at least gives you the impression that you can edit it. Fill out online surveys, etc. They try to make it VERY easy.

And yet, they're resorting to tracking why? Because the vast majority of people won't voulontarily tell advertisers what they're interested in. The heydey of spam e-mails that cost you money really left their impression on people, we hate online advertisers.

Tracking is bad because it's an invasion of my privacy, not because it leads to annoying things like ads for cars. Even if advertisers were only telling me things that were relevant and valuable, and even if the information they collected had no chance of falling into the wrong hands, it's still not something I allowed, and I never will allow it if I can help it.

And you do realize that Windows 7/8 stills runs in the exact same manner as Windows Vista, right? And I can still run DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows NT and Windows 95 applications on a stock Windows 8 machine.

The last time I checked on this, an entire suite of programs from pre-Vista would not run on Vista+. Otherwise there wouldn't have been stories like: this or the MS compatibility center which has a not surprising list of software with "Status Varies", the only listing other than "Compatible", and no way to sort on incompatible software. The win16 APIs are only partially functional on Vista+, running in an emulated mode only and with what one person I read at the time described "with less success than WINE". As far as the user context goes, that's a whole different story, and the breakage MS did with W7 / 2008 R2 under the covers was large, if your software played with any of those APIs. Entire segments of functionality are gone, but don't worry - no errors will be thrown, they're just NOOPs now.

Most simple - buy a NAS box

Or...

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-i-set-home-file-server-free-review-freenas.htm

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/replace-windows-home-server-great-free-tools/

Better yet set up your own 'home cloud'...

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/101441-create-your-own-personal-media-cloud

No comment necessary .... read the article people. http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/internet-web-apps-and-networking/2121-k-meleon-firefox-comparison-and-history.html Peter Wills

I'm sure there have been many different editors discussed but for just pure HTML editing I like HTML-Kit. There are several listed here http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-html-editor.htm#htmlkit but I've found it very easy to use plus you can see what your code will look like in different browsers. If he wants to do C# programming though I would recommend Microsoft's Visual Web Studio.

On the other hand, if you search "what is the best web browser" (without the quotes!) like the person you're replying to did, you get slightly different results. I see, in order a comparison from some site I've never heard of with Google Chrome as #1, a LifeHacker page (Chrome again), a random Yahoo! Answers link ("Google Chrome is, for Windows users, the fastest web browser."), a review with 4 equal "best browsers" including Chrome, a PC Mag review (spoiler: Chrome wins!), a really annoying YouTube video where Firefox comes first, "Review: Best Web browser? Google's Chrome outshines pack", a review where Firefox wins, and finally one that doesn't answer the question at all.

Google much?

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-microsoft-downloads.htm

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/60-best-free-pc-software-downloads-from-microsoft-914749

http://blakehandler.wordpress.com/2006/08/01/ultimate-list-of-free-windows-xp-software-resources-from-microsoft/

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/results.aspx?freetext=free&displaylang=en&pf=true

In case you want to try other options:
https://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-windows-media-player-replacement.htm

Here's a link to a short article about podcasts which has a long list of web sites at the bottom with excellent podcasts where can find enough material to easily fill most flash drives and customize the material to the recipient: https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/speed-your-hearing.htm . (Full disclosure: I wrote the article.)

Try here, or here, or here, or here.

Every time this topic comes up, people suggest these guys. There used to be PGP, I think it's commercial now, but there's GNU PGP.

I think any manner of Google searches will tell you how to do this. It's something that's been around for quite some time in various incarnations.

What are some of the benefits that we could see with it? Well:
-Bare metal hypervisors. Imagine being able to boot up linux and windows side-by-side and not have to worry about setting up any sort of virtual machine. You could switch between the two using a keyboard combo. Or even being able to setup a COW copy of windows so cleaning up your mom's copy of windows is as easy as hitting a few keys and setting it back to a known clean state...

Oh, like ESXi? No, wait, you said no virtual machine... wait, what? Hypervisor = Virtual machine control system.

Your "insta-clean" windows can be accomplished with drive imaging, or "freezing".

-Improved device support. Devices could use a standardised interface on the "bios" level so that windows/linux/osx would just need a simple driver layer to talk to the device. Device manufacturers could provide what basically amounts to a shim to load into the UEFI which provides the mapping between the actual device and the standardised hardware interface. Of course this may run into issues such as non-standard or extended features but this could be taken care of with extensible interfaces.

Are you advocating an OS-independent version of DirectX for bare metal? Or are you describing how BIOS already operates?

In short, either you have no idea what you're talking about, or you're simply unaware that what you're describing is already in existence (and, indeed, is the way it already works).

Oh hi there, I suppose I could make myself look like a butthurt 13-year-old who didn't manage to open gedit but I would do it differently by not making generalizations and pointing out specific examples to support my arguments.
Too bad in this case I don't have to open a terminal, how dare they look down upon my haxx0ring skill by offering complete solutions that would take most the apps on this page to replicate. Seriously I have been giving them too much credit.

Then remove the entries from the start menu and take all the icons off the desktop. Of course this is not practical with XP but will work just fine with vista and 7 as the updates are independent of the default browser. It will work if you control the updates in XP and only enable IE when a critical update happens.

That's a solid point. I tend to segregate out the large files into their own directory, especially if I'm just storing a copy that could be downloaded again later on. Mainly because it helps keep backups sane. Things like my games collection from GoG, various installation CDs and DVDs for PC-BSD, Ubuntu, FreeBSD (AMD64 and i386) and such. Don't like to redownload unless I need to so I store them, but since they can be redownloaded later, I don't personally keep as close an eye on them for corruption.

Then there's the typically smaller files that aren't particularly sensitive, those usually get backed up offsite on a fairly regular basis and as such ought to get their own part of the home dir.

Temporary files that I don't really care a whole lot about get kept in a temp or download folder.

So, what I'm left with is something like the following which is also kind of nice for using varying tools on them.

home/$USER
=====>Backup/Large
=====>Backup/Small
=====>Backup/Small_secured
=====>Temporary
=====>Desktop
My main problem is finding a sensible tool to handle all those things. Right now I just use the MS Synctoy, but Gizmo has a few other recommendations over here.

I've read a lot of reviews (Gizmo freeware, for example) : http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-anti-virus-software.htm which don't support this view.

Kaspersky seems to not have won out too well recently too.

Can you post a link to back up your argument?

Fasterfox makes firefox load pages more quickly through various methods.
The Firefox Tweak Guide has many options for about:config and other tips for improving your specific experience.
Firefox Preloader will make Firefox load more quickly by making Firefox do the same thing Internet Explorer does. Firefox will use system resources before being specifically called. The application will remain resident in memory like IE does, waiting for you to click the little fox. In this way, IE loads faster but slows overall system performance.
How to use UPX to speed it up a little is what this article can tell you. Probably not the best way to go about it, but I have implemented this method on my HTPC.

It is VERY important to realize that the few seconds you wait around for the initial loading of Firefox are quickly surpassed by the lag you experience while using Microsoft's Explorer. Firefox ignores many advertisements right off the showroom floor, but can be configured to show NEARLY NO ADS AT ALL. FlashBlock, AdBlock, and NoScript will make your browsing much faster and cleaner.

Using Firefox, especially with these and other add-ons, will make your browsing incredibly secure. Explorer is left in the dust in comparison.

So the trade-off you seem to have made is this: A few seconds at load time in exhange for a combined several minutes waiting for ads to be displayed, just so you can fall victim to the shiny! new! IE exploit that seems to get barfed all over Slashdot once a week. This while using an underdeveloped, overpriced, practically featureless browser that has no database of expansions. Unless you are using the Vista beta (7 beta) you aren't even using tabs! Do you choose to commut on a horse? HOW DID YOU EVER SURVIVE THE PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION? BAH! Why did I bother?

I've been using and recommending Avast for years and have been very happy with it. The home users I support are reasonably savvy though, so the threat was probably fairly low.

While fixing another computer that was known to be infected (multiple times), I plugged the hard drive into a Avast protected PC. A pretty brave move, but I was in a hurry to get a backup before I blatted and reinstalled. Big mistake though, as most would have guessed. The second computer was now infected and Avast alone couldn't remove it. It detected the troublesome virus as a trojan but couldn't clean it. It must have been missing a related file that was reinfecting the box. I thought I'd try Ewido (www.ewido.net now owned by AVG), a free trojan remover.

Ewido worked like a charm, but it took several hours to remove, and gain confidence that I'd cleaned everything (various SysInternals tools etc).

I'm still using Avast though, why? Because I agree with this article:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-vs-paid-av.ht m
No one program is perfect, and two different free versions are statistically better than one commercial one.

I checked the virus files on Virus Total (virustotal.com) and confirmed that I'd be in a similar boat with Norton, Symantec and McAfee. I assume these guys offer some type of free telephone support with their product, but this would never be valuable to me.

Avast is still running (active scanning), and Ewido is still installed if something strange happens and I need a second opinion.

46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities for Windows. Very good list and a good newsletter. Subscribe to the paid newsletter and get more recommendations: Extended list of 81.

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46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities for Windows. Very good list and a good newsletter. Subscribe to the paid newsletter and get more recommendations: Extended list of 81.

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http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utili ties.htm

in this order . .
http://nonags.com/
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/index.htm
http://www.doom9.org/ (click on the download button on the left)
http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/
http://www.komando.com/shareware_index.asp
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best.htm

Do I need to mention sourceforge and freshmeat?

Not sure if http://skype.com/ is listed in the above lists - it is surely worth mentioning but sometimes requires a USB headset purchase to tweak it, which is well worth the expense since this software often rivals Vonage service in quality when calling pots lines (non-free) and blows away anything when calling pc to pc (free).

http://grouper.com/

http://www.ultravnc.com/ is almost always my preference over tightvnc.

Realplayer is not that bad if it is tweaked - you have to look for the setting that disables automatic ownership of filetypes.

http://kerio.com/ is my firewall preference over ZoneAlarm and Sygate, although the windows xp built-in is is usable. Kerio keeps an eye on changing files via an md5 hash.

http://grisoft.com/, in most cases, would be my recommendation for AV software.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/ is great if you have the connection for it.

And if you want more free software then download emule.

um uh . . erase that last line