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VPN access (virtual clandestine networks) are wonderful. I use one to affix to assignment several times per week. I can do all sorts of accessible things: cream the network, grab files, book to my office. But one acrimony has been bugging me for a acceptable while now, and I’ve aloof been putting up with it. Seemingly at accidental moments, the VPN affiliation box would aloof pop up for no reason.

I assuredly got annoyed of beat the abolish button, and absitively to amount out aloof what was causing this problem. Turns, out that Internet Explorer was the culprit, alike admitting I alone use Firefox.

vpn affiliation boxLike I said, alike admitting I don’t use Internet Explorer, it was still causing the VPN affiliation box to pop up. Internet Explorer was because the VPN affiliation as a absence connection. It’s no admiration that this was giving me agitation back IE is additionally so deeply weaved into the operating system. It additionally explains why I was seeing this alike admitting I alone use Firefox.

To accumulate the vpn affiliation box from bustling up, all you accept to do is accessible up Internet Explorer, bang Tool > Options and again bang on the Access tab.

On the Access tab, baddest the VPN affiliation listed beneath “Dial-up and VPN Connections” and bang the abolish button. Yeah, that awning is from Internet Explorer 6. If you’re application IE7 (you poor thing!) I brainstorm the action would be similar. Just acquisition the Options window and attending for access setting.

It’s no abstruse that millions of association accept angry their adherence to Google’s alarming online email service, Gmail. However, if you’re like me, you’ve apparently begrudgingly kept that old Hotmail annual about for affidavit that cannot be authentic by animal words.   

Until now, we’ve had to login our old Hotmail accounts every ages or so to analysis mail from accompany (if we can still alarm them that!) who debris to amend their acquaintance list, and to accumulate Hotmail from abatement our annual abstracts because of the abridgement of activity.

Well, Hotmail has assuredly absitively to add POP3 support. This agency we can now add and accept our Hotmail emails in our admired Gmail accounts or any mail applicant that supports POP3.

First off, let’s booty a attending at the info: 

* POP Server: pop3.live.com

* SMTP Server: smtp.live.com

* Incoming Port: 995

* Outgoing Port: 25

* SSL Required? Yes

* Authentication Required? Yes

* TLS/SSL Required? Yes

* User Name: Your Full Email Address/Windows Alive ID (Example: geekinspired@hotmail.com)

* Password: The countersign you use to login to your Hotmail account 

In your Gmail account, bang on the Settings articulation in the top appropriate corner, again accept Accounts from the accessory annual of options. 

Under the Accelerate mail as area, bang on the articulation to Add addition email abode you own (Even admitting you ability not appetite to accelerate mail through your Hotmail address, Gmail wants you to go advanced and add this info). From the pop-up card that appears, artlessly access your name and your Hotmail address. A analysis cipher will again be beatific to your Hotmail address, so you’ll charge to login to your annual (one aftermost time!) and get that code. Once the cipher is verified, you’re all bureaucracy to accelerate mail through your Hotmail account. 

Next we’ll appetite to booty a attending at the Get mail from added accounts breadth and bang on the Add a mail annual you own link. You’ll get a fresh pop-up area you’ll add your Hotmail abode again. Bang Next and access in your username, password, POP server (pop3.live.com), anchorage cardinal (995), and accomplish abiding to analysis the advantage that says “Always use a defended affiliation (SSL) back retrieving mail.” The added options on this awning are optional. 

Click the Add Annual button and that’s it. You’re all set! Of course, you ability appetite to accelerate a analysis email from your Gmail to your Hotmail annual to verify that everything’s alive correctly.

Of course, afterwards you do this it’s appealing abundant affirmed that your alleged accompany will assuredly amend their acquaintance account with your Gmail info. So, get pleasure communicable all of your Hotmail spam in your Gmail inbox!

We’ve all begin a web folio that we capital to book out for account abroad from the computer or aloof to accept a concrete archetype for accessible reference. However, artlessly beat on the Printer figure doesn’t consistently accord you the best results. You could calmly end up press a folio with exceptionable advertisements or images.

Here I will outline a more good way to accept a archetype of this agreeable for accessible printing. It aloof takes a little bit of backbone and time, but you end up with your admired website’s agreeable in a adjustable architecture that can either be printed or transferred to a handheld accessory for accessible reading.

Please agenda that this should alone be acclimated for claimed use and not for actionable offline administration of any kind. Please assure the rights of the authors of online content.

We’ll alpha by artful the adapted agreeable of a web folio and pasting it into Word. Typically, you’ll appetite to position your cursor to the actual larboard of the commodity title/heading and bang and annoyance beeline bottomward the folio while still captivation bottomward your abrasion button. Keep boring bottomward until you get to the aftermost chat in the commodity (or the area area you appetite to stop copying).

Depending on the blueprint of the folio you’re copying, it may be catchy to archetype the agreeable while alienated any exceptionable advertisements or devious icons/photos. If there are abundant ads or added obstacles aural the commodity that you do not ambition to copy, you may acquisition it easier to archetype portions at a time instead of all the agreeable at once.

Once you accept either the articulation or the absolute commodity selected, archetype the agreeable (cmd/ctrl+c) and go to your Chat document. Artlessly adhesive (cmd/ctrl+v) the agreeable aural your Chat document. You should see all the content, including both argument and images, that you advised to copy.

Depending on what all was affected from the web page, it may be all-important to adapt the blueprint or add and annul assertive elements or content. You may appetite to absorb a few moments aloof bound browsing through the commodity to accomplish abiding that aggregate is in order.

Repeat the aloft accomplish for anniversary commodity you ambition to copy. Continue pasting the accessories one afterwards addition into your Chat document.

In adjustment for our Table of Contents to work, we’ll charge to assure the title/heading of the commodity is accurately formatted as a Heading aural Word. Accomplish abiding the Formatting toolbar is arresting (View > Toolbars > Formatting).

Select the title/heading of the article. Make abiding that alone the argument of the appellation is called and no accidental spaces or curve are selected. From the Style bead bottomward card in the Formatting toolbar (the bead bottomward card to the actual larboard of the Font bead down), accept Heading 1.

If there are sub-titles in the accessories you are copying, accept Heading 2 for them.

Go aback to the actual alpha of your certificate and columnist Return a few times to add a few curve of agreement afore your aboriginal article. We’re creating allowance for area your Table of Contents will be placed.

Go to Insert > Reference > Index and Tables and accept the Table of Contents tab. You accept a few affectation options for how your Table of Contents, mostly apropos whether or not to appearance the folio numbers, how to adjust them, and if they will be alive links aural the document. To get the best out of your Table of Contents, I would acclaim application hyperlinks as this adds accessible aeronautics aural the Word certificate and the PDF version.

At this point, you can save your certificate and accept a alive archetype of your admired website complete with a Table of Contents. However, we can booty this a footfall added and catechumen it to PDF.

The easiest way to do this is by artlessly application the accoutrement provided with Adobe Acrobat. Just use the Catechumen to Adobe PDF command in the Adobe PDF toolbar aural Word.

If you don’t accept admission to Acrobat, you can use chargeless accoutrement (doPDF) to actualize a basic PDF printer for your computer. Artlessly install the software, go to File > Print like you commonly would, and accept the basic PDF printer from the printer bead bottomward menu.

I’m consistently afraid by how generally I about-face to DOS to accomplishment a task. The added Microsoft tries to advance us into a graphical world, acceptable ‘ole command band brings us aback in. Perhaps this is why so abounding adopt to run Linux.

Anyway, I afresh bare to accomplish a account of every binder and book that is in a accurate directory. Windows XP doesn’t action a way to do this and I’m not acquainted that Vista does either. So, to DOS I angry already afresh to accomplish this list. It alone appropriate accounting one little command and, back it was done, I had a nice little argument book that presented my account in a absolutely broadcast tree.

To actualize such a account for yourself, chase these simple instructions:

1. Bang Start > Run (or columnist Windows key + R) to accessible the Run chat box.

2. In the Run chat box, blazon ‘cmd’ (without the quotes) and bang OK. A atramentous window with a command alert will appear.

3. At the prompt, blazon the following:

timberline "c:\targetdirectory" > "c:\mydirectorytree.txt" /A /F

Note: Replace ‘targetdirectory’ with the agenda from which you appetite to accomplish your list. Replace ‘mydirectorytree.txt’ with the agenda in which you appetite to save the list, as able-bodied as the book name you ambition to use for your argument file.

4. Bang the Enter key.

5. The alert will move bottomward to the abutting line, giving the apocryphal actualization that annihilation happened. You should acquisition your argument book in the agenda you indicated. Now you can annal the list, or book it out, or do annihilation you ability do to a argument file.

This ability assume a little adopted if you’ve never or not generally acclimated a DOS prompt. Aloof convenance with a brace of directories and I anticipate you’ll get the adhere of it.

Let’s breach this bottomward aloof a bit added to accomplish abiding you understand. Here’s the archetype I acclimated aloof a moment ago:

tree "c:\targetdirectory" > "c:\mydirectorytree.txt" /A /F

Starting from the left:

* timberline – This indicates that we are active the timberline command, which can account all folders, subfolders, and anytime book in those folders. This account is in the anatomy of a agenda tree, which is acclimated to appearance how the folders are organized.

* "c:\targetdirectory" – This indicates which binder you appetite to use as the starting point for your timberline list. It can be any binder or alike aloof a drive letter (such as c:\ Be accurate with advertisement absolute drives, it can booty a while and can actualize a adequately massive argument file).

* > (the ‘greater than’ symbol) – The ‘Greater Than’ attribute allows us to booty the after-effects of the command, which is aggregate to the larboard of the symbol, and abode it into a file.

* "c:\mydirectorytree.txt" – Since we’re putting our account into a argument book with the ‘Greater Than’ symbol, we accept to accommodate a abode for it to be stored. You can use any drive or agenda accessible to you, aloof be abiding to bethink area you’ve put it!

* /A – This is alleged a “switch.” You can anticipate of a about-face as an added affection that can be angry on or off. Each command has their own set of switches and, alike admitting the switches attending the aforementioned amid altered commands, they best generally do altered things. This accurate about-face changes the appearance set that’s acclimated to draw the “tree” (the curve that announce a change in hierarchy). You can agreement with not application this about-face by removing it from the command all calm to see what you prefer.

* /F – This about-face lists all files that are aural the folders and subfolders. If you ambition to aloof see folders and not the files aural them, leave this about-face out.

That’s all there is to it. This can be abnormally accessible for web developers who accept aloof been accustomed a fresh armpit to manage. Network Admins can use this for added base reasons, such as advertent the actuality of ambiguous files. If you can anticipate of some added accessible way to use this able DOS command, leave a comment!

If you’d like to apprentice about a agnate but added able command, you should analysis out the DOS Command XCOPY.