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I'm moving to a new shorter blog address. New posts will not be reflected here any more.

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Repair Winsock LSP Corruption

Internet connectivity can be faulty if the Windows Socket (Winsock) get corrupted due to faulty installation of network software.

It could also due to malware/virus attack.

The easiest way to determine this is to open up a Command Prompt.

Ping to a well-known address, such as yahoo.com. If your Winsock LSP is OK, most likely, you would be getting something like this:

Pinging yahoo.com [206.190.60.37] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=313ms TTL=44

If your Winsock is corrupted, you would getting something like this:

Pinging yahoo.com [uiQ] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=313ms TTL=44

In Windows XP SP2, issue the command netsh winsock reset and restart your PC.

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Managing Multiple Cookies In Firefox

If you login to a website and want to check more than 1 account simultaneously, chances are that you might be using IE, Firefox and Opera to do this.

Say for instances, you need to check 2 of your Gmail accounts at the same time to compare things. Chances are that you open 1 session of IE and another session of Firefox.

This is where CookiePie plugin for Firefox comes in.

Read this impressive plugin at their site.

You can search for other cookie management plugins using the Google.

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Another Way To Install XP from USB

Read the articles from the producers of UltraISO.

http://www.ezbsystems.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=2440

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Install XP to USB

Now, you might need to run XP from a portable hard drive or thumb drive. Follow steps outlined here for guidance.

Note that this is installing to a USB device, not running install from a USB device.

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Install XP from USB

If you have faulty optical drive (CDROM/DVDROM), and you'd need to install XP to your laptop, follow the steps written at this site for guidance.

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Recover Saved Wireless Key

To retrieve whatever key that was typed into the WZC profile, download WirelessKeyView from nirsoft.net.

Browse the site for other useful utilities.

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CABArc command

Create cab file using cabarc.exe. Google it from the Net.

Using cabarc -p -r N filename.cab allfiles.* to create a new cab file.

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VPN Access

Do you know that your data can be sniffed in a wired and wireless environment? All data traveled on the wire is not encrypted while traveling in the network. The TCP design specify that the packet header is encrypted for the destination IP. How much is this true, I don't really know.

What I'm paranoid is that my co-workers using the LAN can turn out to be a sniffer of my Internet Banking transaction, where all my sensitive data can be sniffed off from the LAN.

A few products employing VPN technology are available on the web.

Look up Hotspot Shield, PublicVPN.com and HotspotVPN.

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Dual booting Vista and XP

There's a site which shows step-by-step install for dual booting XP and Vista, either with Vista installed first or XP installed first.

There are other methods with Linux and Windows installation dual boot, available on the site.

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Download FULL Package of Internet Explorer 6 SP1

When we need to reinstall IE6 Service Pack 1 (for XP), MS site would normally allow download of a small ie6setup.exe file from their site. How can we offline install IE6 with only this small file?

Read this article from this site. It'll show you how to extract the file from the downloaded ie6setup.exe and do a download of all needed files.

The command can be support by using ie6setup.exe /c:"ie6wzd.exe /d /s:""#E".

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