Saturday, March 27, 2010

How To Consolidate Windows 7 Control Panel Tasks In A Single Window

1. Right-Click the Desktop and Select New > Shortcut.



2. Copy and Paste explorer.exe shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} into the location box,  then Click OK.



3. Type in a name for your shortcut, such as “Master Control Panel.”

Okay the shortcut is created and it works, but let’s make it more "official looking".



4. Right-Click the shortcut and Select Properties.



5. Click the Shortcut tab, then Click Change Icon…



6. In the white box Paste C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll and Click the Control Panel icon.  Once you’ve found it, Click OK.



7. To keep it from cluttering up the desktop, Drag and Drop the shortcut onto the Start Menu Orb.  This will pin it to the start menu for easy access from there.



Now when you access your newly created shortcut it will display every possible task in the Windows Control Panel via a new window.  The tasks will be separated by category headings for easy organization.  For best results, Change the view to Small Icons.



Taken from GroovyPost

Friday, March 19, 2010

Add server list to eMule

1. Go to Options/Server
2. Set "Number of errors allowed before removing the server" to 9
3. Click on "List..." button that appears next to the option Auto update
4. In Notepad that opens, add the following lines in the beginning:

http://www.gruk.org/server.met.gz
http://peerates.net/peerates/trueservers.met

5. Save changes
6. Unmark the two following options after "Auto-Update server list on startup"
7. Click on Accept
8. Go to Servers window
9. Remove all servers from static list
10. Remove all servers from list
11. In "Update Server.met from URL", write any of the URLs from step 4.
12. Click on Update button
13. If you have selected "Autoconnect only to servers on static list" add the servers you want to static list
14. Double click on any server to connect