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Part of the big improvements for Firefox 3.5 was it is suppose to be faster. Unless you have started using Firefox 3.5 with a clean profile, you are going to notice that the initial startup of Firefox can be a bit (or for some user painfully) slow at times. This is especially true for those on Windows. There are a couple quick fixes to improve the startup time of your Firefox. These involve cleaning up temporary files (Windows users) and vacuuming your databases. Both tips come courtesy of Percy at Mozilla Links.

Cleaning Up Temporary Files (Windows Only)

Part of the slow down in Firefox 3.5 is due to a change in how Firefox 3.5 gets the randomness it needs for security purposes on Windows. The procedure involves scanning some temporary folders looking for bits normally added by OS and other applications operations. Firefox 3.5 looks for more files and deeper (more subfolders) for increased randomness, but it has led to unexpected results for users with too many temporary folders or files resulting in slow startups. This is a known bug (501605) and should be corrected when Firefox 3.5.1 comes out in the next couple months.

Window is a pack-rat and has a hard time letting go of files it is no longer using. As a result you can end up with a very large and sizable folder. There are two parts to this cleaning up process, Windows Temporary Files and Internet Explorer’s Temporary Files.

Cleaning out Windows Temporary Files

Windows XP users should delete ALL (some may be in use and therefore can not be removed) the files within these folders:

C:Documents and Settings*user*Local SettingsHistory
C:Documents and Settings*user*Local SettingsTemporary Internet Files
C:Documents and Settings*user*My Recent Documents
C:Documents and Settings*user*Temp

Windows Vista users can not easily get to their temporary files via Windows Explorer. There are a couple ways you can clean out your temporary files. You can use the Disk Cleanup Tool which comes with Vista via clicking the Start button, clicking All Programs, clicking Accessories, clicking System Tools, and then clicking Disk Cleanup. A quicker method is getting to the Temporary Files folder itself by clicking the Start button then typing %Temp% in the Start Menu command box. This will open an explorer window showing the content of your Temporary Files folder. From here press CTRL+A to select all then press Delete. You will get the usual warning dialog box about deleting files, click Yes. Again, any files that are in use you will not be able to remove, but this only should be a small handful of files.

Cleaning out Internet Explorer Temporary Files

Note: This only removes Internet Explorer’s temporary files, this will not affect your settings in Firefox. Much like Windows, Internet Explorer holds on to files as well. But in the case of Internet Explorer it is so pages will load faster the next time you visit. There are a couple ways to clear out this content. If Internet Explore is running, go to Tools, Internet Options. Look for a Temporary Internet Files or Browsing History section with an options to Delete. If you don’t have Internet Explorer running or care not to run it, you can get to the Internet Options via the Windows Control Panel. Warning: Having a large number of Temporary Internet Files may cause the Internet Options window and/or Windows to be unresponsive for anywhere up to a couple minutes.

There is a now a Firefox Extension which does this for you.  Vacuum Places Improved will allow you to vacuum your places.sqlite  databases from within the browser. Plus it can be configured to automatically vacuum after a given number of starts or remind you (displays a vacuum in the status bar) after a given number of starts.

You should notice several things:

• Reduction in the size of your .SQLite database files
  
• Faster cold start up
• Faster warm (restart) start up
  
• Better performance from the Awesome Bar

It is recommend you vacuum your databases every few weeks or if you cleared out some of your browsing history. Mozilla is looking at way to make this an automated process. Part of the issue is Firefox needs to be closed in order to vacuum the database files. For this reason it may be become part of the update process. Once the Firefox updated is downloaded and installed the databases will be vacuumed during the restart process.

Does it work?

I can say for sure vacuuming the databases made a huge difference when I restart Firefox. All my tabs loaded nearly instantly. A couple days ago I removed the Internet Explorer Temporary files, but at time I couldn’t figure out how to access my Temporary Files folder on Vista. While writing this post, I found out how to (and) remove the Windows Temporary files. I shall see next time I do a cold start up.

Run Google talk with the following switch: /nomutex If you installed google talk to the default location, you can easily create a shortcut to this setting.

1. Right-click on the desktop

2. Select New

3. Select Shortcut 4.

Paste this into the text box: “c:program filesgooglegoogle talkgoogletalk.exe” /nomutex

5. Click Next6. Name it whatever: Google Talk Multiple, etc.

7. Click OK until you are done

If it doesn’t work, try this

Changeremove .exe extension

Create invisible folder in windows xp by using following tricks. The folder will not be hidden but will be invisible to eyes, as it’ll be same as background & it’s icon is like that.

Steps are below:-
1) Right Click on the desktop.Make a new folder
2) Now rename the folder to a unnamed one (to do this u have to hold ALT key and type 0160 or hold on Alt key and type 255(numlock should be on & use numpads ) ).
3) Now u have a folder with out a name.
4) Right click on the folder>properties>customize. Click on change icon.
5) Scroll a bit, u should find some empty spaces,(empty or blank iconimage) Click on any one of them. Press ok.

We can use Google Translator or Google LanguageTools to access restricted sites.

Here’s what you need to do.

Visit Google Translator and there you see under Translate 2 types of translations are mentioned in or.
1.text translator which u ignore just after or there is a website translator. Just write the website name(obviously the blocked site you want to visit) at the text box just bellow the text ” Translate a web page:“. In the language selector box select “French to English” or any language to english or English to English if you still want the site to be in english and then click on translate. Now the intended page in english will appear as if inside google translator not the actual webpage so now we indirectly accesed blocked site as this translator site which is unblocked acts as a proxy. Trick here is that the site intended is in english but we need to translate it to english b’coz we need the translator site act as proxy so we used French 2 English in that translator.

The output link was like http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http:/puzzlehacker.wordpress.com&langpair=fr|en which was from french to english as indicated by “langpair=fr|en” and the site mentioned after “u=” in the o/p link is the site intended which is http:/puzzlehacker.wordpress.com here. If we do from english to english we’ve to write “langpair=en|en” and if we intend to view blocked site orkut.com then u=http://orkut.com resulting in total link

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://orkut.com&langpair=en|en which can be used directly without visiting the translator sites. Due to this google translator is some times said as Google Proxy.

Other translator sites such as Babel Fish Translation Free translation Language Translation can be used to translate from english to english or from other language to english.

The welcome screen displays all of the local users on the system, except the built-in administrator account that was created during setup.

Hide Your User Account

If we want to hide a specific user from the list, we need to create a special value under this registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows
NTCurrentVersionWinlogonSpecialAccountsUserList

Under this key you simply create a new DWORD value – the name matches the users name exactly, and the value is one of the following (Decimal format)

0 – Hides the user just from the welcome screen
1 – The user is shown

Before you start putting values in this key, I want to warn you. This tip is particularly dangerous. If you make the wrong move, you could make it nearly impossible to get back into your system. (Use safe mode if you mess up, to get back in)

To disable the users I want, I browse to the registry key on my system:

Now I want to hide all of the accounts except my own, so I add each of the accounts shown on the welcome screen, and give them a value of zero.

How do you log on now that you are a hidden user?

If you are running windows XP Professional you simply need to press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice, and the standard logon screen will be displayed. This has one pitfall – it will fail to work if a user is still currently logged in. If you are having trouble getting it to show, then reboot and press it twice before any users have logged in. (I have not tested this in Windows XP Home…Some people say that the standard logon screen won’t come up (maybe they didn’t get all of the windows updates?), if that happens boot into safe mode and edit the registry back to normal)

Well you wanna hack,huh? This will however make a script kiddie..

First off you will need to download ProRat SE 1.9 (Clean)
Download it [Password: pro]

Download Winrar Also

Then follow the steps below:

1) Extract the file onto your desktop and place them into a folder
2) Open ProRat.exe , you will get a message, press OK
3) once you see the program, click the button CREATE
4) You will get another window, enter your email into the E-MAIL section ( you will need a real email)
5) Go to GENERAL SETTINGS, and check PROTECTION FROM….
and press CREATE SERVER.

Now that you’ve finished the hardest part, follow these steps below and you can get hacking.

6) Send the program to a friend, and make sure he/she opens it.
7) Check your email, (junk in needed), and find the “Your victim is online”
Copy and paste the IP address onto ProRat where it says “IP:[127.0.0.1]“
9) Press CONNECT, DO NOT CHANGE THE PORT, if u did change it back to 5110
10) Type in the password (default is usually 123456, it is in the email).
11) Your done, now you can mess with the buttons on the program. Especially the GIVE DAMAGE button. It will damage their pc by format, and will make the computer useless.
I will not be responsible for your action, this article is for only education on how it works, and how to prevent it. Still need help?

The Chrome OS team has a produced a new Common Craft style video that gives an overview of the new Chrome OS is 3 minutes.

Here’s a high-res screenshot of Chrome OS..

..and here are some Chrome OS screenshots captured from the press event:

1. Chrome OS Application Menu

2. Chrome OS Media Browser

Cloud Storage - Everything you save inside Chrome OS is put on the cloud like this notepad application which will sync with Google Docs.

4. Arrington from TechCrunch — Live-Blogging the Chrome OS event

5. Switching between Chrome instances - It’s much like Alt+Tab of Windows 7 with live preview