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Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
April 26 2009 18:36 GMT
#21
On April 27 2009 03:26 TaP.Nuada wrote:
I thought this was going to be things like modifying the BIOS to skip checking the CD drive for a disk to boot from before going to the hard drive, which saves booting time for your PC.


If you have something to contribute with that fits the topic why don't you?
caelym
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6430 Posts
April 26 2009 18:40 GMT
#22
On April 26 2009 21:27 Patriot.dlk wrote:
>>Keyboard shortcuts for Windows<<
+ Show Spoiler +
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449


>>Setting up custom shortcuts usable through Win+R (Run)<<
Purpose: Speed up navigation within windows
+ Show Spoiler +
Most of you probably use Run to start stuff like calc, mspaint, winword and a few others You can start whatever program or open any folder you want the same way using the steps found below:

1. Type system32 into run and press enter
2. Place your desired shortcut or application here (for example a shortcut to BWHFAgent. Shorten it's name to for example "bwa") and close system32.
3. Type bwa into run and it starts up!

Use this especially for stuff you use once in a while or really often. Gradually add more stuff. Eventually you will navigate superfast.

- It remembers what you have typed so you can use the arrows to navigate. When you begin to type it auto suggests things you have typed before.


with vista, you just press the windows key, type in the name of the program, and hit enter
Gnojfatelob
Profile Joined April 2008
Belgium216 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-26 18:51:41
April 26 2009 18:50 GMT
#23
I might as well post all my add-ons for firefox. They are all pretty usefull in their own way. Download them at this site: Firfox Add-ons

All-in-one gestures: No more clicking 'back' or 'forward', just hold right mouse button (anywhere on the screen), make a very very small gesture (im talking milimeters, or you can drag it out longer if you want) and firefox performs an actoin. I use it for 'back', 'forward' and 'new tab', but any possible action can be done with a gestures, 100% customizable. This is my absolute number one addon for firefox.

Fire.fm: For playing music, just enter a name of a band you like and it plays songs from that band and other similar bands. It uses the site last.fm if you ever heard of that. Great for discovering new bands. Used to be my number one for months, but it seems after a while my trial is now over nd i gotta pay 3$ a month. Still its awesome for a couple of months while it is free.

AdBlock Plus: Very good adblocker, very very good. Gets updated frequently. Should be standard. Is there an advertisement anywhere on tl.net??? I wouldnt know, I never see one.

Customize Google: As it name suggest customize the results page when you google something. e.g. remove adds, amount of results on a page, etc... Lots and lots of options, comes in handy as a one time tweak for google so it looks better and is adjusted to your needs.

Googlepreview: If you google something it gives a small thumbnail version of all the resulting sites. Combine this with Customize Google and tweak your googling.

Chroma tabs: Gives all tabs a different colour, but groups tabs from same sites with similar colours. I used to have this enabled, but with my current skin (Foxdie) it doesnt look very pretty so i disabled it. I is still there because i might change my skin one day and start using this again.

Greasemonkey: Do whatever you want whenever you want it in Firefox. It lets you program your own javascripts, or you can download one from the thousands of user created scripts. If you dont like something about Firefox, just search the web for a Greasemonkey javascript. I am sure someone else had the same problem and solved it already.

Noscript: Gives the ultimate protection by disabling all javascripts by default. You can easily enable the ones u need and add them to the trusted list ofc. Remember Zangoo anyone, get rid of things like that with noscript.

PDF-download: As the name suggest, download any pdf file in different formats or different ways. There is no harm in having it installed and it comes in handy now and then.


Probably the best starcraft player in the world
DeathSpank
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1029 Posts
April 26 2009 20:42 GMT
#24
protip: To make your internet browsing faster using firefox.
1. in the address bar type about:config
2. in the search bar that comes up within that window type "http"
3. double click all the lines that have anything to do with pipelining so that they're true.
4. look how fast you can get to google
yes.
ToSs.Bag
Profile Joined December 2008
United States201 Posts
April 26 2009 21:06 GMT
#25
1. Click Start, click Run, type notepad in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Carefully copy and then paste the following text into the Notepad window:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
3. On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as "Show desktop.scf". The Show desktop icon is created on your desktop.
4. Click and then drag the Show desktop icon to your Quick Launch toolbar.
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
April 26 2009 21:12 GMT
#26
On April 27 2009 06:06 ToSs.Bag wrote:
1. Click Start, click Run, type notepad in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Carefully copy and then paste the following text into the Notepad window:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
3. On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as "Show desktop.scf". The Show desktop icon is created on your desktop.
4. Click and then drag the Show desktop icon to your Quick Launch toolbar.


isn't that just creating a shortcut for windows+d?
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
April 26 2009 21:12 GMT
#27
On April 27 2009 05:42 DeathSpank wrote:
protip: To make your internet browsing faster using firefox.
1. in the address bar type about:config
2. in the search bar that comes up within that window type "http"
3. double click all the lines that have anything to do with pipelining so that they're true.
4. look how fast you can get to google


why is this working? is it unsafe or something?

i can't see why it wouldn't be enabled by default
ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
April 26 2009 21:32 GMT
#28
On April 26 2009 21:37 wo0py wrote:
A fire fox addon that every1 eeds imho is NoScript. You control javascript acces!

You can do that with every browser only thing no script does is that you can quickly disable noscript with a shortcut of click of the button vs going though menus.
I have ass for brains so,
even when I shit I'm droping knowledge.
Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
April 26 2009 21:51 GMT
#29
Some random basic stuff:

Firefox add-ons:

- Use a Firefox add-on like CookieMonster or CS Lite to quickly control your cookies. Have cookies disabled by default and only allow them for specific sites. This should be common knowledge.

- Same goes for the NoScript add-on, which was mentioned already.

- I like using the FireGestures add-on. I'm more a mouse than keyboard type of guy, so this speeds me up considerably. It takes some memorizing before it becomes useful of course. By the way, here is a little script that opens a new tab with the selected text as the URL, which helps if links aren't actually links but only text: + Show Spoiler +
var searchText = FireGestures.getSelectedText();
gBrowser.loadOneTab(searchText, null, null, null, false, false);


- DownloadHelper lets you download Flash videos from Youtube and other popular sites.

- The TrashMail.net add-on generates disposable temporary e-mail addresses for you, which is useful if you need to specify your address for registering somewhere or so.


Tools/Programs:

- 7Zip for compressing and decompressing files

- CCleaner for cleaning up your registry, temporary internet files etc.

- Cobian Backup for file backup in normal file or zip format (most backup softwares use some proprietary format)

- Daemon Tools for mounting disc images/ISOs

- IrfanView for image viewing. You can also easily set up batch jobs, to properly jpeg compress a slew of photos for example.

- Launchy to let you launch programs with but a few keystrokes

- MediaMonkey to properly tag masses of mp3s

- OpenOffice.org so you don't need to steal MS Office

- VLC Player for playing and streaming videos
DeathSpank
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1029 Posts
April 26 2009 21:54 GMT
#30
On April 27 2009 06:12 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 27 2009 05:42 DeathSpank wrote:
protip: To make your internet browsing faster using firefox.
1. in the address bar type about:config
2. in the search bar that comes up within that window type "http"
3. double click all the lines that have anything to do with pipelining so that they're true.
4. look how fast you can get to google


why is this working? is it unsafe or something?

i can't see why it wouldn't be enabled by default

its just sending multiple requests at a time to a website. There's no risk in it.
yes.
Racenilatr
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2756 Posts
April 26 2009 22:01 GMT
#31
whats the shortcut that allows you to toggle between stuff again? Like *shortcut* and it can switch your explorer to a music folder.
DeathSpank
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1029 Posts
April 26 2009 22:03 GMT
#32
alt+tab?
yes.
Amber[LighT]
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States5078 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-27 16:37:24
April 26 2009 22:03 GMT
#33
Firebug FF Extension - I use this for HTML/CSS/Script editing. It's a great little tool and helps correct errors in your pages. It does real-time inspection so you can drag your mouse over what you want to check and it highlights it for you.

Download Helper FF extension - On top of the flash videos, you can download music too. Just go to playlist.com and type in a song/artist. Then preview the song by hitting play and the download helper icon will start moving. You can then select the .mp3. If you play multiple songs the newest song is always at the bottom.

Ubiquity - This lets you search without having to actually do any work (you hit ctrl+space and ubiquity comes up in Firefox, and allows you to google search or go to any relevant pages based upon a specific search. You can immediately send web-content to an e-mail message and locate directions easily. It looks up the weather too with simple commands.
"We have unfinished business, I and he."
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
April 26 2009 22:09 GMT
#34
On April 27 2009 06:54 DeathSpank wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 27 2009 06:12 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
On April 27 2009 05:42 DeathSpank wrote:
protip: To make your internet browsing faster using firefox.
1. in the address bar type about:config
2. in the search bar that comes up within that window type "http"
3. double click all the lines that have anything to do with pipelining so that they're true.
4. look how fast you can get to google


why is this working? is it unsafe or something?

i can't see why it wouldn't be enabled by default

its just sending multiple requests at a time to a website. There's no risk in it.


cool then, thanks
ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
April 26 2009 22:30 GMT
#35
On April 27 2009 01:38 KizZBG wrote:
Windows key + D show desktop shortcut. Really useful if you have something fishy on your screen :D


Oh! I use Windows key + M lol! It does the same
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
Disintegrate
Profile Joined April 2009
United States182 Posts
April 26 2009 23:13 GMT
#36
For Firefox Addons, AdBlockPlus is a MUST!!!
-fj.
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Samoa462 Posts
April 27 2009 00:16 GMT
#37
On mac, I find MenuMeters very very useful.
For those who are used to using OSX but use Windows for games, you can use AutoHotKey to switch the windows and control keys.

LCtrl::LWin
LWin::Ctrl
RCtrl::RWin
RWin::Ctrl

XButton1::Shift
XButton2::Shift

(the last 2 lines are to disable the squezebuttons on the mightymouse, because they would make the browser go back, and my mightymouse's squeeze buttons are shot)

If you generate an exe of this script and put it in User folder/Start Menu/Programs/Startup it will start automatically.
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
April 27 2009 00:38 GMT
#38
On April 27 2009 07:30 Zoler wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 27 2009 01:38 KizZBG wrote:
Windows key + D show desktop shortcut. Really useful if you have something fishy on your screen :D


Oh! I use Windows key + M lol! It does the same

actually winkey+M minimizes all windows while winkey+D shows the desktop. slight difference.

winkey+M is slightly inferior becuase to reverse it you have to press shift+winkey+M as opposed to just winkey+D ^_^

of course it has the advantage that since it actually minimizes windows as opposed to showing the desktop, if you winkey+M, and open up a new window (say something on your desktop), you can also re-maximize your old windows with shift+winkey+M while winkey+D will not be able to do that.

i use win+D fwiw because i can do it with one hand without altering the hand position too much :D
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
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Railxp
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Hong Kong1313 Posts
April 27 2009 01:18 GMT
#39
winkey+E opens up windows explorer. I use this a lot to navigate/find my files ect.

To make winxp run slightly faster: (taken from wiki how, tips i've implemented)
Disable the Indexing Service. The indexing service scans your hard drive and indexes files to help speed up searching. It runs in the background using up memory and processor time, and is generally thought to be unnecessary by most geeks. It can also wake you up if your hard disk is noisy and you leave your machine on at night. To disable the Indexing Service, open My Computer, Right-click on the hard drive, go to properties and click on the check box to clear the check mark next to "Allow indexing service to index this hard drive for faster searching". Click OK. It may take a while for the operation to complete.

To make menus load faster, go to Start, click on Run, and then type regedit and press Enter/Return. Now find "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop", Select MenuShowDelay, right click and select “Modify’, reduce the number to around 100, but not too less.

Disabling unnecessary services. Windows XP has to be all things to all people it has many services running that take up system resources that you may never need. Below is a list of services that can be disabled on most machines: Alerter, Clipbook, Computer Browser, Distributed Link Tracking Client, Indexing Service, IPSEC Services, Messenger, Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing, Portable Media Serial Number, Remote Desktop Help Session Manager, Remote Procedure Call Locator, Remote Registry, Secondary Logon, Routing & Remote Access, Server, SSDP Discovery Service, Telnet, TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper, Upload Manager, Universal Plug and Play Device Host, Windows Time wireless Zero Configuration (Do not disable if you use a wireless network). To disable these services go to Start Run... and type services.msc, double click on the service you want to change, change the startup type to Disable.

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Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
April 27 2009 06:54 GMT
#40
great guys all add all this later today!
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