Category: Windows

[WinXP] Windows 7 Taskbar Tool

Some of us still work on Windows XP.
I myself still prefer to have my P4 3 GhZ Single Core at work to run with the "old" Windows, because of Ressources and the good feeling to have an proven system installed. The only thing that I find really annoying is the taskbar: I really love the feature of Windows 7 to reorder taskbar entries without restarting applications.
And thats something Windows XP can do as well with Taskbar++
( http://www.chip.de/downloads/Taskbar_19900036.html )

Just install and run it, move your mouse cursor over the taskbar and press and hold ALT.
The mouse cursor will change to a finger, then you can click and hold an entry and move it on the taskbar.
Let go of the icon and ALT and everythings set again.

Dropbox

So, another tool I'd like to present, Dropbox.
Dropbox is an online file synchronisation service which does take place on Amazon Servers.
The files are encrypted and stored securely, also with quite high performance.
Nice part? 2 GB of space are free.
You get 250 MB for doing the Tour,
and another 250 MB if you followed the invitation of another person.
( Oh, and yes the other person does get 250 MB as well.. )
Just in terms, heres my invitation link, would be nice if you would consider using it: http://db.tt/tIYzeey

So, how does it work?
In a nutshell: You create your account, download and install the client, enter the data and you're done.
You got an "Dropbox" Folder now on your Win / Mac / Linux Machine which is synchronized.
As soon as you move files to this folder, Dropbox starts to upload the data.
If you change data, these changes are also commited directly.
So far, so good.

The magic starts happening as soon as you install the client onto another pc:
From the moment you start copying files into the folder on one pc, these are also synchronized to the Dropbox Folder on the other one.

And to make the thing perfect:
There are also clients for Android and iPhone as well as an "GUI-less" Version:
Thats right, you're able to install Dropbox as "Backupmedium" to an Headless, Commandline only Linux Server.
( http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall )

So - I really can recommend it after using it for some months already, so I would suggest you to test it.

[CCNA] Cisco Networking Academy Material Error

If you open CCNA Material in the Internet Explorer, it does always Popup the Error that it doesn't want to execute these Scripts as they might be dangerous. You can click that away and work with the Course Materials - but it just tends to go on to ones' nerves. So to disable that: Internet Explorer, Extras, Internet Options, Advanced. Look for Security and enable "Execution of Interactive Content within Files on local Computer" and "Execution of Interactive Content within CDs on local Computer".