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(Adobe stuff is using version CS4)

Hide the default Windows Internet Explorer search box.

Windows Registry Editor

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
“NoSearchBox”=dword:00000001

Exercise caution when editing the Windows Registry. It is a very good way to tweak your Windows system. However, by casually changing any Windows Registry entries it is possible to cause damage to the Registry that cannot be repaired, and that may in extreme cases render your system unusable. Use these examples at your own risk.

Speed up Windows Internet Explorer…

Windows Registry Editor

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
“MaxConnectionsPerServer”=dword:00000006
“MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server”=dword:00000006

Exercise caution when editing the Windows Registry. It is a very good way to tweak your Windows system. However, by casually changing any Windows Registry entries it is possible to cause damage to the Registry that cannot be repaired, and that may in extreme cases render your system unusable. Use these examples at your own risk.

Disable Shared Documents folder in Windows

Windows Registry Editor

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders

Locate the key {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. Right click on it and select delete.

Reboot to take effect.

Exercise caution when editing the Windows Registry. It is a very good way to tweak your Windows system. However, by casually changing any Windows Registry entries it is possible to cause damage to the Registry that cannot be repaired, and that may in extreme cases render your system unusable. Use these examples at your own risk.

Microsoft has enabled POP3 email access for all users of their Hotmail email service. This means that it is now possible to configure desktop email clients to access Hotmail to retrieve and send emails.

Incoming Server: pop3.live.com
Incoming Port: 995
SSL Encryption: yes
Outgoing Server: smtp.live.com
Outgoing port: 25
Authentication: yes
TLS Or SSL: yes
The username and password are the same that are used to log into the Hotmail site

Character entity references in HTML.

Entity names are case sensitive.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html

HTML Character Entity Number Entity Name Description
2.0 " " " quotation mark
2.0 & & & ampersand
XHTML 1.0 ' ' ' apostrophe
2.0 < &#60; &lt; less-than sign
2.0 > &#62; &gt; greater-than sign
3.2   &#160; &nbsp; no-break space
3.2 ¡ &#161; &iexcl; inverted exclamation mark
3.2 ¢ &#162; &cent; cent sign
3.2 £ &#163; &pound; pound sign
3.2 ¤ &#164; &curren; currency sign
3.2 ¥ &#165; &yen; yen sign
3.2 ¦ &#166; &brvbar; broken bar
3.2 § &#167; &sect; section sign
3.2 ¨ &#168; &uml; diaeresis
3.2 © &#169; &copy; copyright sign
3.2 ª &#170; &ordf; feminine ordinal indicator
3.2 « &#171; &laquo; left pointing guillemet
3.2 ¬ &#172; &not; not sign
3.2 ­ &#173; &shy; soft hyphen
3.2 ® &#174; &reg; registered sign
3.2 ¯ &#175; &macr; macron
3.2 ° &#176; &deg; degree sign
3.2 ± &#177; &plusmn; plus-minus sign
3.2 ² &#178; &sup2; superscript two
3.2 ³ &#179; &sup3; superscript three
3.2 ´ &#180; &acute; acute accent
3.2 µ &#181; &micro; micro sign
3.2 &#182; &para; pilcrow sign
3.2 · &#183; &middot; middle dot
3.2 ¸ &#184; &cedil; cedilla
3.2 ¹ &#185; &sup1; superscript one
3.2 º &#186; &ordm; masculine ordinal indicator
3.2 » &#187; &raquo; right pointing guillemet
3.2 ¼ &#188; &frac14; vulgar fraction one quarter
3.2 ½ &#189; &frac12; vulgar fraction one half
3.2 ¾ &#190; &frac34; vulgar fraction three quarters
3.2 ¿ &#191; &iquest; inverted question mark
3.2 × &#215; &times; multiplication sign
3.2 ÷ &#247; &divide; division sign
4.0 ˆ &#710; &circ; modifier letter circumflex accent
4.0 ˜ &#732; &tilde; small tilde
4.0 &#8194; &ensp; en space
4.0 &#8195; &emsp; em space
4.0 &#8201; &thinsp; thin space
4.0 &#8204; &zwnj; zero-width non-joiner
4.0 &#8205; &zwj; zero-width joiner
4.0 &#8206; &lrm; left-to-right mark
4.0 &#8207; &rlm; right-to-left mark
4.0 &#8211; &ndash; en dash
4.0 &#8212; &mdash; em dash
4.0 &#8216; &lsquo; left single quotation mark
4.0 &#8217; &rsquo; right single quotation mark
4.0 &#8218; &sbquo; single low-9 quotation mark
4.0 &#8220; &ldquo; left double quotation mark
4.0 &#8221; &rdquo; right double quotation mark
4.0 &#8222; &bdquo; double low-9 quotation mark
4.0 &#8224; &dagger; dagger
4.0 &#8225; &Dagger; double dagger
4.0 &#8226; &bull; bullet
4.0 &#8230; &hellip; horizontal ellipsis
4.0 &#8240; &permil; per mille sign
4.0 &#8242; &prime; prime
4.0 &#8243; &Prime; double prime
4.0 &#8249; &lsaquo; single left-pointing quotation mark
4.0 &#8250; &rsaquo; single right-pointing quotation mark
4.0 &#8254; &oline; overline
4.0 &#8260; &frasl; fraction slash
4.0 &#8364; &euro; euro sign
4.0 &#8465; &image; black-letter capital I
4.0 &#8472; &weierp; script capital P
4.0 &#8476; &real; black-letter capital R
4.0 &#8482; &trade; trademark sign
4.0 &#8501; &alefsym; alef symbol
4.0 &#8592; &larr; leftwards arrow
4.0 &#8593; &uarr; upwards arrow
4.0 &#8594; &rarr; rightwards arrow
4.0 &#8595; &darr; downwards arrow
4.0 &#8596; &harr; left right arrow
4.0 &#8629; &crarr; carriage return
4.0 &#8656; &lArr; leftwards double arrow
4.0 &#8657; &uArr; upwards double arrow
4.0 &#8658; &rArr; rightwards double arrow
4.0 &#8659; &dArr; downwards double arrow
4.0 &#8660; &hArr; left right double arrow
4.0 &#8968; &lceil; left ceiling
4.0 &#8969; &rceil; right ceiling
4.0 &#8970; &lfloor; left floor
4.0 &#8971; &rfloor; right floor
4.0 &#9001; &lang; left-pointing angle bracket
4.0 &#9002; &rang; right-pointing angle bracket
4.0 &#9674; &loz; lozenge
4.0 &#9824; &spades; black spade suit
4.0 &#9827; &clubs; black club suit
4.0 &#9829; &hearts; black heart suit
4.0 &#9830; &diams; black diamond suit