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How to view your Paypal subscriptions

My Account>History…

Show: change to “subscriptions”.

Within: change to “past year”

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Free and easy Ad blocker

Place this file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

Use this file to prevent your computer from connecting to selected
internet hosts. This is an easy and effective way to protect you from
many types of spyware, reduces bandwidth use, blocks certain pop-up
traps, prevents user tracking by way of “web bugs” embedded in spam,
provides partial protection to IE from certain web-based exploits and
blocks most advertising you would otherwise be subjected to on the
internet.

Test your download speed, real world test

Heres a site, to download test files to measure your internet connection speed.

Windows 7 Control Panel short cuts

Press Windows key R
then type any of the following….

Accessibility Options – access.cpl
Add or remove programs – appwiz.cpl
Add Hardware Wizard – hdwwiz.cpl
Date and time properties – timedate.cpl
Device Manager – devmgmt.msc
Display Properties – desk.cpl
Mouse Settings – main.cpl
Keyboard Settings – main.cpl keyboard
Sound Properties – mmsys.cpl
Open Fonts Panel – fonts
Change User Settings – nusrmgr.cpl
Firewall Settings – firewall.cpl
Open Internet Properties – inetcpl.cpl
Regional and Language Settings – intl.cpl
View Network Connections – ncpa.cpl
Network Setup wizard – netsetup.cpl
Power Management Options – powercfg.cpl
System Properties – sysdm.cpl
Phone and Modem Options – telephon.cpl
Joystick Properties – joy.cpl

How to enable mpeg4/h264 hardware acceleration for free

I follwed these instuctions and my cpu went from 30-50 percent to 10 percent when playing 1080p content.

First of all, you have to grab some stuff from the internet. You’ll need these: 1. CCCP pack 2. FFdshow 3. Haali (All from their original websites. Use the “free-codecs” FFdshow.)

Install CCCP without installing ffdshow and haali. Unselect them at the install screen. Now, install ffdshow (You may want to enable subtitle support and disable deblocking (its at the bottom, under “Tweaks”)), haali. Use the basic settings, you shouldn’t adjust anything unless you know what you are doing.

Now, start Media Player Classic HC. Go to Options (View->Options). (Here, I usually select the “Remember last window size, position” and uncheck the “Auto-zoom” at the “Playback” part, but that’s only because I love Smplayer’s behaviour).

This one will depend on the OS. If you use XP, select VMR9 (renderless). If you’ve got Vista+, use EVR Custom Pres. ** (Reduce EVR buffers to the lowest possible value).

At Internal Filters (right), select: H264/AVC (DXVA), H264/AVC (FFmpeg), VC1 (DXVA), VC1 (FFmpeg).

Go to External Filters. Click on “Add Filter…” and select ffdshow Video Decoder. At right, select “Block”.

Finally, go to “Playback” (left ‘tree view’) and select “Auto-load subtitles”. Click OK, restart MPC-HC and see if it works.

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Nice free drive back tool

Drives Snapshot is totally free, and works perfect.

Download from here

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