For those of you with Lynksys Routers
Here's how to stealth your port 113.
Open your Internet Explorer home page and in the address bar type in
[http://(then](http://(then/) your ip address given to you by your router. If you dont know
it follow this thread: Start/All Programs Accessories/Command Prompt.
In Command Prompt type in ipconfig(spacebar)/all - now dont type in the
spacebar but...
Say you have a favorite file that you like to listen to with your media player. With Winamp for example, when you start the program, the last media you were listening is scrolled along the bottom, but you must hit the play button to get it to play. If you listen constantly to one thing, you can make it load automatically. You can either make a copy of the shortcut and edit it, or you can edit the... Read More
Copy the information into the registry to get rid of the puppy dog in the search window. Brings back the classisc Windows 2000 search box.
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Index.dat files are files impossible to delete under windows, and it stores all the information of your surfing history, you can be followed through these dangerous files. and even if you delete your cookies and your history, these index.dat files remain there and become bigger and bigger, their original size is 16kb but they can reach up until 600kb.
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