If you like to use a VNC program to remotely access your/a machine, but find it is being blocked by the Windows firewall (XP Sp2) - you can quite easily allow VNC through the Windows firewall, without turning the Windows firewall off.
To do this,
go to Control Panel
open the Windows Firewall snap in
choose exceptions from the […]
A handy built in feature with IE7 is the ability to open multiple tabs, but even better, to open multiple tabs when you start IE.
To do this, simply go to the Internet Options (Tools - Internet Options) and add multilple home pages (each entry on a seperate line).
If you want, you can also then add […]
You may know that notepad has a nifty little feature called a status bar - this can make notepad much more useful by displaying line numbers, which is ideal if you are looking through code. Unfortunately, by default you can’t display the notepad status bar as it is greyed out. So, to turn the status […]
Some more Windows shortcuts now - these quick tips will save you a little time, and are mostly based on the Windows (flag) key.
Before going into those shortcuts, let me mention the shift key. Many people don’t realise that holding down the shift key has a couple of uses. Firstly hold down shift when deleting […]
This little trick is an easy way to begin the process of converting your Fat32 formatted hard drive to NTFS. The command is simple, and you are then prompted (if it’s the drive your Operating System is installed to) to either dismount the file system (not recommended) or whether to perform the conversion at the […]
