I found a super easy way to save windows updates.

Windows Updates Downloader

First download and install the program. Then choose your windows language in updates list.

Select the file appropriate to your windows version. When presented with the option to open or save, simply open the UL and it will automatically install itself in the WUD program folder.

 

When you open the program you will presented with the available updates, choose among them and when you click download they will be saved in download folder.

Machine translation is not perfect yet so you may want to check multiple alternatives for your important documents. Google Translate is not the only translation service out there.

	Google translate
	BabelFish
	Windows Live Translator
	SYSTRAN
	GramTrans
	PROMT
	freetranslation.com
	Applied Language

Microsoft is shipping Windows Home Server’s 120 day tryout DVDs for free.

 

 

 

To obtain the DVD click here.

Select your location.

Select your country and continue.

There are four language options. Select the one you want and click buy now.

 

Fill out your shipping information.

You will receive the dvd soon.

note: there is no shipping fee.

Thanks to SUMo (Software Update Monitor) you'll be able to keep your PC up-to-date by using the most recent version of your favorite software ! Unlike build-in auto update features, SUMo tells you if updates are available before you need to use your software.

Features

• Automatic detection of installed software
• 
  Detects required updates / patchs for your software
• 
  Filter / authorize Beta versions (user setting)
• 
  Ignore list : only tracks software YOU want to track
• 
  More compatibility and less false positive than others Update Monitors (according to users feedback ;-)
• 
  Internationalization support.

My preferred torrent client uTorrent has been updated to ver1.8.

Currently my system has 512mb RAM, so i expect most programs to use the least memory possible. And uTorrent is great about it. It is only 260kb and does what a torrent client is supposed to do.

improvements with this version

download

Unlike DVD drives on laptops you can't see the laser head in internal DVD drives for PCs. This makes it quite harder to clean them. You can try using special DVD disks with brushes but they are not always effective. Surest way for cleaning is by actually opening the drive and see it with your own eyes. Here is how to do it:
Before you remove the drive from PC case leave the drive open so that its loading slot will stay out. Somehow I cant fully dismantle it if its closed. 


Remove all the screws you can find.

Push the front nails.

Push the middle nails.

And that is it, you should have your DVD drive dismantled from it case. From here you can easily clean its laser head.

Proxy Programs – These programs direct your traffic to proxy servers which act as a middle man between your computer and your target website. So you are getting the content via proxy server.

Hotspot Shield – It is the fastest one I’ve tried.  

torproject - foxtor (FF add on) - OperaTor

Changing DNS

everydns, opendns

how to change your dns address

Using IP Instead of URL – Most of the time websites are only blocked by their hostnames and not by their IP addresses. So instead of using their names you can try accessing them by using their IP addresses. Here is how to find it:

win+r / cmd / ping domain.com

Instead of domain.com just enter 66.150.120.145 in the address section of your browser.

Redirection with Short URL service

tinyurl, snipurl

Using Cache services

Using Online Proxy sites

online proxies

Proxy in Browsers

http://www.proxy4free.com/

Use online translation services

Google translate

Action	Shortcut
Activate Menu bar	Alt, or F10
File menu	Alt+F
Edit menu	Alt+E
View menu	Alt+V
Undo the last operation	Ctrl+Z
Redo the last operation	Ctrl+Y
Cut the selected area	Ctrl+X, or ⇧ Shift+Del
Copy the selected area	Ctrl+C, or Ctrl+Ins
Paste contents of clipboard	Ctrl+V, or ⇧ Shift+Ins
Select everything in focused control or window	Ctrl+A
Delete selected file(s)	Del
Delete selected file(s) definitively	Shift+Del
Show help	F1
Create a new document	Ctrl+N
Open a document	Ctrl+O
Save the current document	Ctrl+S
Print the current document	Ctrl+P
Zoom in/out on the document	Ctrl+Click Wheel (Scroll)
Reload the current document	F5, Ctrl+R
start of line	Home
end of line	End
start of document	Ctrl + Home
end of document	Ctrl + End
previous word	Ctrl+←
next word	Ctrl+→
previous line break	Ctrl+↑
next line break	Ctrl+↓
Make selected text bold	Ctrl+B
Underline selected text	Ctrl+U
Make selected text italic	Ctrl+I
Change to upper/lower case	Shift+F3
Make selected text superscript	Ctrl+Shift+(+)
Make selected text subscript	Ctrl+(+)
Switch to next/previous window	Alt+Tab / Shift+Alt+Tab
Switch to the next/previous window (without dialog)	Alt+Esc / Shift+Alt+Esc
Pop up window menu	Alt+Space
Minimize all	Win+M
Switch full screen/normal size	F11
Show / hide desktop	Win+D
Close dialog	Esc
Moves keyboard focus to next/previous control	Tab / Shift+Tab
Toggle selected state of focused checkbox, radio button, or toggle button	Space
Activate focused button, menu item etc..	Enter
Create new tab	Ctrl+T
Close current tab	Ctrl+W
Go to next/previous tab	Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Run new application	Win+R
Start menu / Applications menu	Win or Ctrl+Esc
Copy a screenshot to clipboard	Print Screen
Lock desktop/Switch active user	Win+L
Show desktop	Win+D
Task manager	Ctrl+Shift+Esc, Ctrl +Alt+Delete
Rename file	F2

Actually there are much more shortcuts but i think above list will be enough for an average user.

My Computer / right click / Properties / Advanced / Environment Variables /

Below the bottom Environment Variables window pane (System Variables), click on New. Enter for “Variable Name”:

“DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES”

and for “Variable Value” enter 1

Then My computer / right click / manage

right click Device Manager, click on View and then select Show hidden devices from the menu. You can identify the hidden devices by their grayed-out icons and remove them.

 

If you remove a piece of hardware without first uninstalling it in Device Manager, the drivers remains behind, but the device no longer shows up in Device Manager by default. By removing unused driver your system speed will not increase, but it is good for cleaning and may lower conflicts with new drivers, and may also prevent possible system errors.

618 million people search Google for "Google" every month... @Sam_Robson

win+r –> regedit

* HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop\

AutoEndTasks, modify the Value data to 1.

* HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop\

Set WaitToKillAppTimeout value to 1000

Set HungAppTimeout value to 1000

* HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\

Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown value to 0

* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\

Set WaitToKillAppTimeout value to 1000

Set HungAppTimeout value to 1000

* HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\

Set WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 1000

Other settings:

Disable any hardware driver that you will not use such as modem (dial-up) and diskette driver.

 
If you want to access your feeds from any computer you use even the public ones and you prefer a desktop solution over online alternatives and FeedDemon is your favorite feedcacher, here is how you can configure it to use it as a portable software.

First install FeedDemon to your USB drive. Open it, then from “file / manage cache” change the cache folder to somewhere in your USB.

For the second part, open regedit (win+r –> regedit), search for Bradbury. Right click / extract / save the file in your USB.

Whenever you want to use it on different computer click on click that reg file first. It will insert your settings to the new computer (thus your cache will be in your USB, as long as the drive letter for your USB is the same as the first computer you created the reg file).
You can also create a couple of registry settings each with a different drive letter by editing the reg file with notepad.

If all these steps seems complicated and you prefer an easier solution you can download this little application I created to do all this steps for you. 

You can either type the folder path of your cache or you can select it by using “choose cache folder” button. Then you just have to click “add to registry” button. After you finish your session, you can also delete all registry settings created by FeedDemon by using “clean registry settings” button.

There are hundreds of video converters you can find on the Internet. Some of them are paid and some are free (freeware and open source). VirtualDub is among the powerful and free video processing programs. Although by using filters you can do almost all the manipulations you can find on paid programs, in this article I just want to show how to convert videos.
First step is to download VirtualDub. Then drag and drop your video file onto VirtualDub. Select audio / full processing mode / compression / lame mp3 / 48000Hz, 128kbps /
then select video / filters / add / resize (select your preferred aspect ration – 4:3), (codec friendly sizing – multiples of 4) / then again video / compression – select x264 /
file / save as avi.












If you do not have x264 codec download and install KLite codec pack first.

Levels	Area	Creature
1-2	Mountain Path	Goblin
3-4	Fire Chasm	Vampire
5-8	Elya Plains North	Shambler
9-10	Elya Plains South	Rock Golem
11	Otha Caves	Nomad Magi
12-14	Krul Beach Forest East	Slime Golem
15-19	Galo Caves	Orc Brute
20-24	Paladir Forest East	Nightshade
25-27	Ramdal Caves	Zombie King
28-29	Udan Forest	Shadow Dwarf Assassin
30-31	Crystal Caverns (Entrance)	Gargoyle
32-33	Burning Abyss lvl 1-2	Crazed Fire Mage
34-36	Gargoyles Den lvl 1-2	Overcharged Spirit
37-39	Eerie Moors East	Lost Soul
40-44	Eldira Port South	Vampiric Raptor
45-47	Hallows Caves lvl 4	Thunder Golem
48-52	Death Gorge East	Ravager
53-54	Klar Labyrinth (Level 2)	Aquatic Horror

source

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Found this on fallensword forum. With it you can easily plan your item buying strategy. For xls file click either Megaupload or Rapidshare. (update: links are dead you should use this wiki instead)

You can also use fallensword calculator to compare different items, sets, skills, buffs etc.

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Play online browser based RPG Fallensword  for free.