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How to use a split archive over multiple hard drives

April 18th, 2011 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | No Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech

This is something I’d wondered about for quite a while, and wasn’t able to do until now!

With Windows 7 there are a number of changes to how folders work.  You are now able to make ‘symbolic’ folder links among other cool things.

This allows you to congregate files from multiple locations and have windows recognize them as actually being in a location different than the one they are actually in (for example if you have a split archive with different parts on different hard drives you’d be able to make a “symbolic folder” to view them as if they were all on the same hard drive).

  1. You’ll need a tool called Link Shell Extension.  This will add shell context menus to your right click context menus in Windows Explorer (giving you an option to make Symbolic Links and folders etc).   While this feature is new in windows 7 it is kind of buried and you would normally need to use the command line to utilize it.  Link Shell Extension provides a graphical front end to make this tool more useable in everyday situations.
  2. Second of all, you will need to create a target folder to “paste” your symbolic links into, so Windows will be “tricked” into thinking that your files are actually there.  I guess that’s the best way of explaining it.
  3. After creating your target folder wherever, navigate back to where your file is actually stored, and then right click and select Pick Link Source.
  4. Navigate to your target folder and select Drop As and then select Junction (this was in instructions for linking folders; for your files you may need to try other options).
  5. In your target folder you will see your file again with a little overlay icon. 
  6. Repeat for all other parts of your archive.

Thanks to unifex from SevenForums.com for providing me with this knowledge!

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How To Remove Windows Explorer / MSIE Browsing Click

September 11th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 1 Comment | Filed in How Tos

It can be quite irritating. There seems to be this clicking sound everytime you browse to a new folder in Windows Explorer or follow a hyperlink in either Internet Explorer. Wondering how to remove it? It’s quite simple.

Remove Browsing Click:

  1. Go to the Control Panel
  2. Open the Sounds and Audio Devices Control Panel App
  3. Go to the Sounds tab
  4. Find the “Start Navigation” Program Event
  5. Select “(None)” as the sound.
  6. Press OK, and you’re all set!  Enjoy.
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How to bypass webpages through Firewall using Proxies!

December 4th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | 9 Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Online, Tech

Having trouble viewing your favorite website or posting on a forum
at school when you get a page like this?

Here’s how to bypass it.

Firstly, go to this website – Proxy Server Website.  Choose a server that is near you.  Look in the host:port column, and copy (highlight and press Ctrl+C) one of the servers in that column.  Then use the following steps.

In Firefox

Go to the Tools menu, and click on Options.  Click on the Advanced section (the one with the Gear), and then go to the Network tab.  Under Connection, click on Settings, and in the new window that comes up, click on the Manual Proxy Configuration radio button.

Paste (Ctrl+V) the proxy server address you copied earlier into the “HTTP Proxy” box (or you can just type the one I used).  Also, as you can see in the picture above, you should check the “Use this proxy server for all protocols” box.  Once you’ve pasted it, the last 4 numbers (called the Port Number) you need to copy and then paste into the “Port” box, and when you are done that, delete the colon that is left so it should look like this:

All set?  Great!  Hit OK and keep on browsing!

Internet Explorer

Go to the Start Menu, then click on Control Panel (on older computers it may be in the settings menu), and then set it to classic view and click on Internet Options (you can also do this inside MSIE by going to the Tools menu and clicking on Internet Options).

In Internet Options, click on the Connections tab.  Then, click on Lan Settings (a button near the bottom).  In the dialog box, check “Use a Proxy Server for your LAN”.  Check “Bypass Proxy Server for Local Addresses”. As described in Firefox above, paste the address of the Proxy Server that you copied earlier into the box.  Then copy the last four numbers into the port box to the right of it.

It should look like this when you’re done:

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