How to Access Yahoo! Mail using POP3 for Free

<div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">By default, you cannot access your Yahoo! Mail using POP3 unless you purchase the Yahoo! Mail Plus plan, which costs $20 a year. That’s not really a lot of money, but for those people who feel it should be completely free (like Gmail), here’s how to get around it.</span></h1> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="KonaBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Note that Yahoo! Mail Plus also has additional benefits other than POP3 access, which Gmail might not have, such as a 20MB limit for attachments, Email Forwarding, no ads on your mail interface, and no promotional taglines on outgoing messages.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://ypopsemail.com/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">YPOPs!</a></span> is a nifty little program that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail for free! This is cool because it means you can use Outlook XP, Outlook 2003, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc to connect to your Yahoo! Mail account and download your email.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/freepop3accessyahoo.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="free pop3 access yahoo" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/freepop3accessyahoo-thumb.png" height="65" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/freepop3accessyahoo-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="free pop3 access yahoo" width="202" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Using this program, you can also send emails from your local client without ever having to log into Yahoo! Mail. So how does it work actually? Basically, it fakes out Yahoo by being a middleman of sorts.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> One the local side, it provides a POP3 server interface to talk to Outlook, etc and on the other side it talks to Yahoo! Mail by using normal HTTP protocol. The program is not a violation of Yahoo! Mail TOS and is not illegal.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Once you download and install the program, you’ll see a small icon in your taskbar with a mail icon. You can double-click on it to bring up the options.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/yahoomailpop3free.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="yahoo mail pop3 free" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/yahoomailpop3free-thumb.png" height="292" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/yahoomailpop3free-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="yahoo mail pop3 free" width="524" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Before we get into the options, here’s how to setup your email client to start downloading emails from Yahoo! Mail using POP3 in Outlook 2003.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1</span>: Go to <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tools</span>,<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Email Accounts</span> and choose <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Add a new email account</span>.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/addnewemailaccountoutlook.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="add new email account outlook" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/addnewemailaccountoutlook-thumb.png" height="209" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/addnewemailaccountoutlook-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="add new email account outlook" width="369" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2</span>: Select <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">POP3</span> as the Server Type and click <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Next</span>.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 3</span>: Next type in your name and entire Yahoo! email address under the<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> User Information </span>section. Enter your Yahoo! login ID and password under<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Logon Information</span>.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/yahoopop3outlook2003.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="yahoo pop3 outlook 2003" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/yahoopop3outlook2003-thumb.png" height="409" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/yahoopop3outlook2003-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="yahoo pop3 outlook 2003" width="524" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 4</span>: For both <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Incoming mail server</span> and <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Outgoing mail server</span>, enter <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">127.0.0.1</span> as shown above.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 5</span>: Next click on<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> More Settings</span> and choose the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Advanced</span> tab. Increase the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Server Timeout</span> value to<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Long</span>.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/servertimeoutoutlook.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="server timeout outlook" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/servertimeoutoutlook-thumb.png" height="282" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/servertimeoutoutlook-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="server timeout outlook" width="365" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 6</span>: Now click on the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Outgoing Server</span> tab and choose <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication</span>. Also, select<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Use same settings as my incoming mail server</span>.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/outgoingserveroutlook.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="outgoing server outlook" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/outgoingserveroutlook-thumb.png" height="243" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/outgoingserveroutlook-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="outgoing server outlook" width="401" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> That’s it, now you should be able to download your email. If you have any issues or use a different client, check out the full <a href="http://ypopsemail.com/documentation/37-email-configuration" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">FAQ section here</a> that shows you how to configure up to seventeen different email clients, including Eudora, Pegasus, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and more.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the Settings mentioned above, you can configure options like marking messages as unread on the Yahoo! Mail server, which folders to download emails from, saving sent email in the Yahoo! Mail Sent Items folder, and more.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ypopssettings.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="ypops settings" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ypopssettings-thumb.png" height="240" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ypopssettings-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="ypops settings" width="524" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Overall, it’ll save you a bit of money and it’s useful if you simply want to backup all your Yahoo! email to your local computer. Enjoy!</div> </div> </div>

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How to Open a New Instance of Excel 2007 Workbooks

<div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">If you work with Excel a lot, you’ve probably noticed that each workbook you open doesn’t create a new instance of Excel. There are not several tabs for Excel in your taskbar like for Internet Explorer or other programs.</span></h1> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="KonaBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Why is this and how can it cause problems? For the most part, it’s not a big deal and doesn’t bother most Excel users. However, it is a real pain when working with many spreadsheets and they are treated as a group.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> For example, let’s say you decide to calculate everything on one spreadsheet. Well, if you have others open, Excel will recalculate all of them too as if they are somehow related. If this is what you want, great, but if not, there’s no way to stop it!</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> That is until now! Luckily, there’s a nice registry hack for Excel 2007 that will let you open each workbook in a new instance. This is also really great if you have multiple monitors and want to have multiple Excel workbooks open on different monitors. Right now, all of them show up in one Excel application like below:</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/excelmultipleinstances.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="excel multiple instances" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/excelmultipleinstances-thumb.png" height="482" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/excelmultipleinstances-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="excel multiple instances" width="288" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> However, it’s much easier to work with when you have separate instances for each workbook:</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/multipleinstancesexcel.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="multiple instances excel" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/multipleinstancesexcel-thumb.png" height="35" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/multipleinstancesexcel-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="multiple instances excel" width="521" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Finally, if one Excel spreadsheet crashes and burns, none of the others will be affected since it’s running in its own instance. You can easily get this functionality using registry editing files already created that will add a context menu to your right-click menu.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/excelopennewinstance.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="excel open new instance" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/excelopennewinstance-thumb.png" height="179" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/excelopennewinstance-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="excel open new instance" width="371" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> You can download this <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/Excel_New_Instance.zip" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">ZIP file</a></span> that includes five different files: one to add the option and make it default, one to just add the option, one to just make it default, one to remove the option, and one to remove making it default. Note that these files <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">only </em></span>work for Excel 2007 running on a 32-bit Windows platform.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/newexcelinstance.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="new excel instance" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/newexcelinstance-thumb.png" height="171" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/newexcelinstance-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="new excel instance" width="425" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> All of the files are TXT files and in order to use them, you have to just rename them to .reg files. After that, just double-click on the one you want to use and click OK when the prompt appears.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Also, you can run the files in any order you like, so you can add the option to the context menu, then make it default, etc.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The other thing to note is that you might have some issue with copy and paste because advanced formatting can only be done between workbooks in the same instance. So if you need to copy and paste something between two workbooks that has advanced formatting, open them in the same instance using the normal <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Open</span> command.</div> </div> </div>

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How to Extract Audio from WMV Files

<div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">You’d think that sound and video are easily separable, especially given the fact that they’re shown as separate entities in the timeline view in Windows Movie Maker. No such luck, but it is possible to extract audio from a WMV video with the right software.</span></h1> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="KonaBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Windows Media Stream Editor, a component of the free Windows Media Encoder is available from the URL below:</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx</a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This tool can extract the audio from a .wmv video file and save it into a standalone Windows Media Audio (.wma) file. Follow the steps below on how to extract audio from a WMV video file.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> First, open the Windows Media Stream Editor and click <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Add Source</span>. You can also drag any .wmv or .asf file to the window:</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image45.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="image" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb45.png" height="312" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb45.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="402" /></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Select the output tab then specify the filename of the output:</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image46.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="image" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb46.png" height="273" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb46.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="439" /></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When you’re ready, click <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Start Encoding</span> button to begin the extraction.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image47.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="image" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb47.png" height="66" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb47.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="244" /></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When the process is complete, you’ll have a standard .wma file.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> To extract the audio track from non-Microsoft video formats, you’ll need a different program. A full-blown video editing application like the two popular choices below:</div> <ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adobe Premiere: <a href="http://www.adobe.com/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.adobe.com</a> which can do this handily</li> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blaze Media Pro: <a href="http://www.blazemp.com/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.blazemp.com</a></li> </ul> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">B</span>ut if you want to do it for free, try the AoA Audio Extractor:</div> <ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1.5em 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ht<a href="http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">tp://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>

Troubleshooting How to Extract Audio from WMV Files

You’d think that sound and video are easily separable, especially given the fact that they’re shown as separate entities in the timeline view in Windows Movie Maker. No such luck, but it is possible to extract audio from a WMV video with the right s…

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How to Repair Corrupted or Damaged AVI Files

<div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">There are reasons that Windows Media Player might have trouble playing a</span></h1> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="KonaBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> video other than a missing or broken codec—namely, problems with the video file itself.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> First, make sure your video file is complete; if you downloaded it<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />from the Web, try clearing your browser cache and downloading the file again.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you’re unable to obtain an intact version of the video, you may be able to repair it with the free MPEG Header Corrector, available at</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.vcdhelp.us/html/tutmpegheadercorrector.html</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> although this typically only works on true .mpg files.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you need to repair an .avi file use DivFix which is a free download from <a href="http://divfix.maxeline.com/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">http://divfix.maxeline.com</a>.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Use this alternate download URL if above does not work: <a href="http://www.digital-digest.com/software/download.php?sid=604&ssid=0&did=1" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="http://www.digital-digest.com/software/download.php?sid=604&ssid=0&did=1">http://www.digital-digest.com/software/download.php?sid=604&ssid=0&did=1</a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image37.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="image" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb37.png" height="193" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb37.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="369" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Once you have the DivFix software installed, drag and drop your broken AVI files to its window.  Click the Rebuild Index button to rebuild its AVI index:</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image38.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="image" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb38.png" height="213" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image-thumb38.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="402" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Depending on the file size, it could take a while to rebuild the index.  I found this tool to be an effective utility for broken AVI files. I think it uses the same mechanism or algorithm that VLC uses to fix index files but DivFix is quicker and offers more functionality like stripping index and error checking.</div> </div> </div>

Troubleshooting How to Repair Corrupted or Damaged AVI Files

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Fix for Cannot Remove or Delete Network Printer

<div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">If you work at an office, you probably have several printers added to your computer that are network printers, i.e. no connected directly to your computer. However, as you move around in the company or printers die out, that list has to be clean up every once in a while.</span></h1> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="KonaBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sometimes when you try to delete a network printer, you may get a message saying “<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cannot delete network printer</span>” from Windows and that’s it! Great, so now you have useless printers clogging up your printer list. Luckily, there is a way to remove any network printer from your computer via the registry. Note that you will have to be an Administrator in order to do this.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Before you make any changes, make sure to read my post on <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-backup-registry/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">backing up the Windows Registry</a>.</div> <h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Remove network printers from Windows using registry</h4> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1:</span> Click on Start, Run and then type in <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">regedit</span> and press Enter. This will open the registry editor.</div> <div align="center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/regedit2.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="regedit" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/regedit-thumb2.png" height="184" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/regedit-thumb2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="regedit" width="345" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2:</span> Navigate to the following key in the registry</div> <blockquote style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HKEY_CURRENT_USER – Printers – Connections</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Here you should now see a list of all network printers with the server name first, then a comma, and then the name of the actual printer.</div> <div align="center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/removeprinterfromregistry.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="remove printer from registry" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/removeprinterfromregistry-thumb.png" height="309" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/removeprinterfromregistry-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="remove printer from registry" width="333" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Go ahead and click on the printer in the left menu and press the Delete button or right-click and choose Delete. But that’s not all! You have to delete the printer from one more location in the registry:</div> <blockquote style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE – SYSTEM – CurrentControlSet – Control – Print – Providers – LanMan Print Services – Servers – Printers</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Now under the Printers key, you should be able to expand it and see the name of the print server that actually hosts the printer you want to delete. Go ahead and expand the print server key and delete the printer from the list.</div> <div align="center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cannotdeleteprinter.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="cannot delete printer" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cannotdeleteprinter-thumb.png" height="210" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cannotdeleteprinter-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="cannot delete printer" width="224" /></a></div> <div align="left" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Now close the registry editor and reboot your computer. The undeletable network printer should now be gone! </div> </div> </div>

Troubleshooting Fix for Cannot Remove or Delete Network Printer

If you work at an office, you probably have several printers added to your computer that are network printers, i.e. no connected directly to your computer. However, as you move around in the company or printers die out, that list has to be clean up …

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Generate a List of Windows Startup Programs using the Command Line

<div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">You probably already knew this, but if you want to see a list of all of the startup programs that run when Windows starts, you can simply go to the</span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MSCONFIG</span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">tool and click on the</span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Startup</span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">tab! Here you can enable or disable startup programs easily. (Read here on</span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/msconfig-windows-xp-vista/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">how to use MSCONFIG</a><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">)</span></h1> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="KonaBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div align="center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/enablestartupprograms.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="enable startup programs" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/enablestartupprograms-thumb.png" height="310" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/enablestartupprograms-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="enable startup programs" width="524" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/simple-ways-to-increase-your-computers-performace-stopping-the-startup-programs/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Knowing which programs run at startup</a> can be very useful for debugging all sorts of performance issues related to your PC. A good thing to do would be to make a list of all of the startup programs while your computer is running normally. That way, if there is a process you see running on your system later on that is taking up a large amount of resources, you can check your list to see if it was there earlier or not.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> You can actually generate a list of all the startup programs in Windows using the command prompt and save the list as a text file or an HTML document. Here’s how:</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 1:</span> Open the command prompt by going to <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Start</span>, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Run</span> and typing in <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CMD</span>.</div> <div align="center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/commandprompt1.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="command prompt" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/commandprompt-thumb1.png" height="175" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/commandprompt-thumb1.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="command prompt" width="344" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 2:</span> Now type in the following command at the prompt and press Enter</div> <blockquote style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wmic startup get caption,command</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> You should now see a list of all the applications along with their paths that run at Windows startup.</div> <div align="center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/startupapplicationswindows.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="startup applications windows" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/startupapplicationswindows-thumb.png" height="340" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/startupapplicationswindows-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="startup applications windows" width="524" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step 3:</span> If you want to export the list out as a text file, type in the following command:</div> <blockquote style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wmic startup get caption,command > c:\StartupApps.txt</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> And if you want to create an HTML file, just type this instead:</div> <blockquote style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wmic startup get caption,command > c:\StartupApps.htm</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> That’s it, now you have a list of startup programs that you can save and use as a reference for later on. </div> </div> </div>

Troubleshooting Generate a List of Windows Startup Programs using the Command Line

You probably already knew this, but if you want to see a list of all of the startup programs that run when Windows starts, you can simply go to the MSCONFIG tool and click on the Startuptab! Here you can enable or disable startup programs easily. (R…

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Share Files Between Any Two Computers Easily using Gbridge

<div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">Looking for a free and easy way to create a VPN connection to another computer, share files, remote control or share screens between computers? Previously, I’ve written about another freeware app called Hamachi that you can use to</span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/software-reviews/hamachi-create-your-own-personal-virtual-private-network/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">create your own personal VPN</a><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">, but I find it still requires a little too much technical knowledge that a newbie may not have.</span></h1> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="KonaBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> That’s where <a href="http://www.gbridge.com/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gbridge</a> comes in. Basically, Gbrdige is a free tool you can use to <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/share-transfer-and-sync-files-between-computers-with-foldershare/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">sync folders</a>, <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/izimi-share-any-file-on-your-computer-instantly-by-turning-your-computer-into-a-web-server/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">share files</a>, control another computer,<a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/5-free-remote-desktop-sharing-and-screen-sharing-solutions/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">share your desktop</a>, or chat. It connects two computers directly and securely.</div> <div align="center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/gbridge.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="gbridge" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/gbridge-thumb.png" height="338" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/gbridge-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="gbridge" width="524" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Other programs do something very similar like CrossLoop and LogMeIn: download a client software, create an account, and connect to another computer running the client software.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Gbridge does the same thing, but has a couple of interesting features. Firstly, you do not have to create an account with Gbridge, all you need is a Gmail account. You log into the program using your Gmail username and password.</div> <div align="center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sharelargefiles.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="share large files" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sharelargefiles-thumb.png" height="257" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sharelargefiles-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="share large files" width="431" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> So if you want to quickly connect to a friends computer, just ask them to install the Gbridge client software and you can now <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/how-to-send-large-files-to-friends-family-and-co-workers-when-email-doesnt-work/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">send large files</a>, instantly play MP3’s off each other’s computer, share your desktops, and even <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/dvd-photo-slideshow/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">create photo slideshows</a> from your folders and let others watch.</div> <div align="center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/slideshow.png" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="slideshow" border="0" data-original="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/slideshow-thumb.png" height="355" src="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/slideshow-thumb.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="slideshow" width="524" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Gbridge also has some cool tecnhonolgy to make sure two computers can be connected even through firewalls and routers. It will try multiple ways to connect based on what works and which method is giving the highest performance. As a last resort, it can use GTalk to create a connection on top of the service.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This is great because you can be behind a corporate firewall or a NAT device and not have to configure a single thing. For those who want to connect two computers in a house or across the world, Gbridge will be able to do it.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Overall, it’s a great program with a lot of features and no restrictions! You can share very large files without a problem, share your desktop, and <a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/free-software-downloads/share-and-stream-music-from-itunes-over-the-internet-for-free/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">stream music and video to your computer</a> from another.</div> </div> </div>

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Looking for a free and easy way to create a VPN connection to another computer, share files, remote control or share screens between computers? Previously, I’ve written about another freeware app called Hamachi that you can use to create your own pe…

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