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Lots of Tutorials for your Computer - Easy And Advanced

First. Here's how to use this guide. Below this paragraph is The Almighty Legend. This is going to be your pal if you like this post. Below it, is the Computer Section [CST]. The CST is what you will use if you want to browse that section. Press CTRL-F on your keyboard, and put in CSTS. It will then bring you to the beginning of the computer section. Below it, is the first tutorial, Making Special Test[MSTC]. If you search MSTC, it will then bring you that tutorial. That is basically how you can find things faster. Now, here we go!

The Almighty Legend

Computer Section [CSTS]
----Easy Stuff [VEST]
--------Making Special Text [MSTC]
--------Command Promt - Changing Your IP Address [CPIP]
--------Archiving Files/Folders [AFFE]
--------Hiding Folders [EHFN]
--------Making A Torrent An Exe To Download Off Of [MTDO] (Kudo's to Gamer)
----Moderate Stuff [MODS]
--------Playing Star Wars On Command Prompt [STCP]
--------Hiding Files Within Files [HFWF]
--------Hiding Folders Like A PRO [HFLP]
--------Shutting off your Computer after a certain amount of time [SCOT]
--------Skinning Your Computer [SYCM]
--------Making A File The Size You Want [MFSW]
--------Locking A Folder Using A Password [LFUP]

Internet Section [ISTS]
----Easy Stuff [ISES]
--------Email Spoofing [ESIS]
--------Downloading Video's Off Of Youtube - Made Easy [DVYE]
--------Unblocking Websites (Even At School) [UWES]
--------SMW Central Search Engine [SMSE]
--------Making Your Own Special Email Address [MSEA]
--------Making Awesome HTTP Text Art - Made Easy [MHME]
--------Making Awesome HTTP Text Art - Part 2 [MHP2] (Credits to Sind)
--------Anti Spam Emails [ASEE]

Credits And Stuff... [CASN]


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Computer Section [CSTS]

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Easy Stuff [VEST]

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Making Special Text [MSTC]

All "special" text/characters can be found in your character map. If you're running any form of Windows, then you will generally have this. To find it, simple follow this path.

Windows XP: Start - Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Character Map
Windows Vista: Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Character Map

When I say Special Text, it is referred to uni-code. This is text that as "english" people, we find it awesome. Some examples of text you can find here are --

®ФѮ©¶¤ڙ

And, if you're patient, you can creatively spell out your names using these different texts. Paste them into MSN, and such. That's it for this! =D.

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Command Promt - Changing Your IP Address [CPIP]

Well. For all your people that get banned off of games, and forums, this is aimed towards you. Changing your ip address is quite simple, and avoiding ip bans is deathly easy. So, first, where is this command promt? For the following --

Windows XP: Start - Run - Type in "cmd" [Without quotation].
Vista - Start - Use the search bar, with the search key of "cmd" [Without quotation] Right click it, and choose "Run As Administrator". (Not required for all..Just some.)

Now. This is what dos is. It's basically a black box. Type in the following text.

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew

There are also many different ways to mask your ip address. You can find a few more located around this guide. Yay.


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Hiding Folders [EHFN]

If you don't already know how to hide files/folders..Wow. But who cares. To hide a file/folder, simply right click the folder, select properties. Then, at the bottom of the options, you'll see "Hidden". Check that box. The folder will now be hidden. >:].

To find the folder again, go to tools - folder options. Then select the views tab, at the top. Then, beside "Show hidden files and folders". The file/folder you just hid will be visible.


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Archiving Files/Folders [AFFE]

Alright. It's very easy to arvhive files and folders. When you archive them, the file size will shrink. That's good. >:]. So how do you do this? I suggest you download an archiving program. Here's what I use..

-WinZip
-WinRar
-7Zip

All three of these are good programs. I myself use WinRar, but I suggest you use 7Zip, (mainly because I'm a hypocrit), and because it does everything the other two do, and it's free.

But, I'll teach you WinRar, because that's what I have. Set up whatever you want to be archived, and put them in a folder. Right click the folder, and click "Add to Archive". Click OK at the bottom, and presto. You just archived some files. While archived, they are smaller, and it is alot easier to transfer files from computers.


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Making A Torrent An Exe To Download Off Of [MTDO]

Well. For you people that don't actually have a torrent program, this is for you. Using this program, it turns the torrent you downloaded, into an exe. Then, you can use the exe to download the torrent. [It still uses seeds/leechers.]

Clicky Me

Not much else to say about the program. Very handy.

Kudo's to Gamer.


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Moderate Stuff [MODS]

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Playing Star Wars On Command Prompt [STCP]

Well. I'm putting this under moderate, because of vista users. It's not as easy for them. >:[. But anyways. This will play you a nice long video, in your command promt, of Star Wars: Episode 4. So, as the title suggests, you need your command promt. To find it, do the following.. --

Windows XP: Start - Run - Type in "cmd" (without quotation)
Windows Vista: Start - Using the search bar, type in "cmd" (without quotation)

Now. You're in the command prompt. Yay. How to make this work.. --

Windows XP: Type in the follow into command prompt. When I say "enter", that means press enter. Then type in the next part.

telnet
(press enter)
o
(press enter)
towel.blinkenlights.nl
(press enter)

Now wait. It'll play Star Wars for you. =D.

Windows Vista: Go to Start - Control Panel - Programs - "Turn Windows Features On or Off". Wait for it to load. Then, scroll down to the bottom, and put a checkmark beside "Telnet Client".

Now. Go to your cmd prompt, and type in the following.

telnet tower.blinkenlights.nl
(press enter)

And that's it. You now got Star Wars playing. Woo, wish it had sound.


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Hiding Files Within Files [HFWF]

Alright. Still pretty easy. But this uses cmd promt, so some of you may get lost. >:[.

So. This requires the program WinRar, WinZip, 2Zip, or whatever you decide to use.

Go to your C:\ drive. Make a new folder. I'll call mine "Jack". Now, within this folder, put a jpg image. [You can pretty much get away with any non-exe extension.) but stick with jpg for now. Call this jpg..Uh.."Jill".

Now, have the files that you want to hide in the folder. Highlight all the files in the folder, and add them to a .rar archive. You can now rid yourself of all the files you're hiding, exept the .rar. I'll call my .rar "Hill". >:].

Load up "run" [windows key + r]. Type in cmd.

In this box type in the following.

cd\ (Push enter now)
cd\Jack\ (Push enter now)
COPY /b Jill.jpg + Hill.rar (Push enter now)

All done. Everything is now within the jpg image. Yey. Let's explain..At the third line, Jill.jpg is the image, the file that you're putting everything into. Hill.rar is the file that you are hiding.

So, now how to find the files. You can double click the jpg image, and it will load up the image. But, if you right click - open with, then choose WinRar, you will also notice that it has all your files in it.

And that's pretty much it.


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Hiding Folders Like A PRO [HFLP]

First. Make a new folder. Press F2, and rename it to this symbol.

"*" (It's inbetween the quotation marks.)
Alternatively, using alt codes, it is alt 0160. [I tell you this code because the forum doesn't usually like codes like these..]

You will now notice the name of the folder is gone. That's good. >:].

Now right click the folder. Go to the Custom tab, then Change Icon. Move the bar until you see a blank icon. [Invisible.]
It looks like this..

Yes. You do have 3 icons to choose one. I always choose the top one, because I'm me.

Anyways. Your icon + name are both invis now. Now, right click it, and change its status to hidden. It's now quite difficult to find, especially if you hide it in a deep dark corner of your computer.



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Shutting off your Computer after a certain amount of time [SCOT]

Well. This is handy for those situations that you are downloading something, and you don't want your computer on overnight. [Or, if you're evil, you send this to friends, and make them panic.] Whatever your fancy, here's how.

Right click your desktop, and click new shortcut. Where it asks for where it is located, put the following text.

Windows XP: shutdown -s -t 15 -c "Write a text here"
Windows Vista: shutdown.exe -s -t 15 -c "Write a text here"

Now. Where is says 15, that is how many seconds it will take to turn off. So, if you have a half-hour download left, you will need 1800 seconds. (30 x 60 = 1800). Now, because of downloads not being absolutely stable, always give your computer extra time, incase the download slows down.

*Note: I found out that on Windows Vista, some can only go up to 600 seconds. (5 Minutes.) This may not be very useful on some Vista users.



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Skinning Your Computer [SYCM]

Well. Want to "pimp" out your computer? Well. There is actually a program which will help you out greatly. This program, is named Tune Up Utilities 2008. (Or any other year..Though I suggest 2008.)

Now, using this program, you can change what you see at startup, when your desktop loads, how it performs, and etc. This program has a massive list of things it can do, I suggest you read more about it Here. Back on track -- When you download the program, it comes with a 30 day free trial. If you are on vista, it's actually unlimited free trial - with EVERYTHING included.

Go to the Customize Windows tab, then select what you want to do. I think you can figure out the rest, and if not, just post some questions past this topic. >:].


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Making A File The Size You Want [MFSW]

Pretty hard..Meh. Whatever.

Let's say you want your file to be..10,000kb. Let's convert that into bytes. So 10,000 x 1024 = 10240000. Now, let's place that into our handy dandy calculator. Change your calculator into scientific mode, then select hex. But, it must be 8 numbers, so you must add 0's to it until it becomes 8 numbers. So, your number is now 009C4000.

Now, go to your command prompt. Type DEBUG filename.dat. It should show you an error, ignore it. Now, type RCX, press enter, then the last 4 four digits in the hex number. So, ours would be 4000. Press enter again. Now, type RBX, press enter. Then type the first 4 numbers of the hex digit, so our example would be 009C. Press enter again. Type W, press enter. Type Q, press enter.

Done! You can now go check the file you just made, or the file that you changed its size.


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Locking A Folder Using A Password [LFUP]

Here's a semi easy one. But it requires you to change a bit of code within the file. Using this method, you will create yourself a password protected folder, which will dissapear upon being locked.

First: You must download this file. Click Me To Download *Credits to Grenade for fixing it.* This is a .bat file, meaning it executes certain things. Now, some of you may not trust me, and don't want this type of file on your computer. But guess what - you can open the file with notepad, and see what it does for yourself. [Were actually going to do that. ^_^]

After downloading the file, open it with notepad. On the 22nd & 23rd line, you will see the following.

if NOT %pass%== PASSWORD goto FAIL // <---------------------------------YOUR PASSWORD GOES THERE!

if %pass%== PASSWORD goto SUCCEED // <---------------------------------YOUR PASSWORD GOES THERE!


Where it says PASSWORD, put the password that you want. To give you an example, here's what it would look like if your password was to be.. "Test" Remember: You must change BOTH of them.

if NOT %pass%== Test goto FAIL // <---------------------------------YOUR PASSWORD GOES THERE!

if %pass%== Test goto SUCCEED // <---------------------------------YOUR PASSWORD GOES THERE!

Alright. Nice and simple, right? Save the file, and close it down. Make yourself a folder where you want this "locked folder" to be. Place the locker.bat file within it. Run locker.bat. [It may ask you for your password..If it does, just imput your password once again.] It will create you a folder called Private. Place any files that you want hidden into this folder. Then, run locker.bat once again. It will ask you if you want to lock it. Type in Y, then press enter. Your folder will dissapear.

To regain that locked folder, simply run locker.bat once again. It will ask for your password. If you imput the correct password, your folder will reappear. You're done.

*Credits to Grenade for fixing the .bat file..Once again*


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Internet Section [ISTS]

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Easy Stuff [ISES]

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Email Spoofing [ESIS]

Email spoofing is so very simple, so easy that you are going to lol. People have been trying to do this for quite awhile, using different methods. But here is a website, which does it all. But before the link, what is email spoofing? Email spoofing is when you take someone elses email, and use it for your own needs. Here's the link --

Click Me

Now. This is too simple. Put in your name. Put in the email you want to be. The subject, who the emails going to go to, and what you want to say.

Presto.

You can send emails from anyone, to any person. This is good for pranks *cough*. But it's also good for when the email domain you use is down. (Such as Hotmail.)


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Downloading Video's Off Of Youtube - Made Easy [DVYE]

Well. I recently found an awesome website that doesn't harm you in any way, and it'll completely download the video, and you can get it off of their. So, here's what you do.

Go to www.zamzar.com. Under Step 1, select url. Then, under Step 1 again, put in the url that you want from youtube. Ex: http://youtube.com/?v=MtbQ4J3RfQ8. Now, select your file type, if you want the movie, I suggest avi. If you want the sound, do mp3. Then, place your email, and press convert. Roughly 5 minutes later, zamzar.com will send you an email, with your video in it. Click the link in the email, and it'll bring you to a download page. You just downloaded the video that you wanted, with no viruses/sypware. :D.


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Unblocking Websites (Even At School) [UWES]

Well. While you're at school, they tend to block websites that we try to visit. So why not unblock the websites? Well. Here's how. Go to www.google.com. Type in Website Proxy. You'll now have a massive list of website that unblock websites. When you enter the site, they will have a bar in which you must imput the website you want to visit. Put it in, and enjoy your website.

Alternatively, (such as my school), they have blocked this method. But, there's always another way to do things. Go to command prompt [Start - Run - Cmd]. Then, type "ping www.yourwebsitehere.com" (without the quotation.) After it is done pinging, it will show you an ip address. Simply put that ip address into your address bar, and enjoy your website. >:].


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SMW Central Search Engine [SMSE]

Well. We all know that SMWC doesn't have a search engine, which is really a pain. That is why we use GOOGLE. (Because we all know google rules.) Google has the ability to search for the site you want, and what's within that site. Simply go to the google of your country, and type in the following.

site:www.smwcentral.net "your text here" (without quotation)



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Making Your Own Special Email Address [MSEA]

Alright. This is a pretty cool one. Using this method, you can have an email like [email protected], or whatever you want. The only downside to this, is the fact that you can't verify the email. That means you cannot receive emails. [You can still send, via the email spoofer located above.] Anyways. Here's what you do.

Go to http://get.live.com/getlive/overview. Press sign up. Now, download the following code, copy the code, and paste it into your address bar, then press enter.


Download Me - I Am A Text File

Or, you can simply copy the following code right off this forum.


javascript: var p = 'fbi.'; var ds = new Array('com', 'net', 'org', 'edu', 'gov', 'totse'); for (var i = 0; i < ds.length; i ++){document.getElementById('idomain').options[i] = new Option(p + ds[i], p + ds[i])} alert('free domains y000');

*Special Thanks To Dotsarecool For Making The Code "Workable" On This Forum.

Now. Where it says fbi, that is the domain name. Example: Jackson@fbi.gov. Where it says 'com', 'net', etc, add whatever you want to that list. So to make it ... RAWR, then add 'rawr'. Example: Jackson@fbi.rawr. And that's how you edit it.

Now, after you pasted it in, and pressed enter, you will notice that when you are choosing your name, it has been changed whatever you made it do. Then just complete your register, and you got yourself an awesome new email.


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Making Awesome HTTP Text Art - Made Easy [MHME]

Well. For those of you who wants to make awesome http art that will impress your friends, then look no further. Here is your answer! Using this website, you can instantly transform a picture into beautiful word art. Some examples of this, from my image gallery..

Example 1
Example 2
Example 3

Please note, I didn't use [img][/img] because that would take too much space. Now, to do the above with almost any image [moving images are not done, I believe.] just go to the following website.

www.text-image.com. Then upload your photo, and that's it.


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--------Making Awesome HTTP Text Art - Part 2 [MHP2]


Using this website, is another way to make awesome HTTP art. This one, is much simpler for making text art, rather then pictures. Through this website, you can create some awesome pictures, from text that you type. Here's an example of what I mean.


Example

The Website - Click Me

To use this website, on the top, simply type the text that you want transformed into an image. Then select the type of font that you want. [There is quite a lot - take some time looking through them all.] Then press "Do it", and your text will appear. >:].

Credits to Sind.


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Anti Spam Emails [ASEE]

Well. Being me, I sign up to DOZENS of things. Generally, they are forums, so it doesn't really matter. But, using this, it will create you an email that lasts for 10 minutes. Then it deletes the email.

http://10minutemail.com

Go to that website, then click "Get my 10 minute e-mail address" and you can use that email to sign up for whatever. It even works for those websites that require you to confirm emails.


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Credits And Stuff... [CASN]

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Credits

Alright. Credits to me, who compiled these.
Credits to This Website for some tutorials that I didn't know. >:].
Credits to..Whoever posts a tutorial in their reply's.
Anyone who I got info off of..I don't really remember. Most of the stuff I just picked up.

Some Legal Info

So. We always need the legal info *sigh*. Just to be safe, right?

Everything posted here is for educational purposes. This information is not to be used for any harmful purposes. I also take no responsibility for what you use this information for.

That's it, right? Let's get some comments going.

P.S. If you got a tutorial, I'll be glad to add it up onto the list. (Yes, credits will be given.) If you see an error, please tell me. >:].

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YAY! These tutorials are awesome.

I knew some of them from before though:
Hiding Folders, Hiding Folders Like A PRO, Downloading Video's Off Of Youtube - Made Easy(I have an even easier way though =P) and SMW Central Search Engine.
The rest are new for me though. Thanks =D

Edit: Of course I also knew how to zip files from before too >_<
How could I miss that? XD

and that star wars one is awesome!
What's your easier way of downloading them? Grabbing them off your cache?
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Nah. Just get the newest "RealPlayer"

If you want to download any youtube video then, just hover your mouse over the video, and a download "icon" will appear in the topright corner. The rest is pretty self-explanatory.
More tutorials added:

Making A Torrent An Exe To Download Off Of
Making Your Own Special Email Address
Making Awesome HTTP Text Art - Made Easy

Enjoy. >:].
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I also like this site! :D
Another tutorial added. (Anti Spam Emails)

Also, do you think you could fix your layout? Every time you post, the table stretches even more.
Your layout has been removed.
XD

It's not my layout. It's the code, in "Making Your Own Special Email Address"
Ah. I see. I'll fix that. >:].
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Could you also add the site I posted two posts ago.

There's also way to few users viewing this thread, I think :/
Added. And I only posted this a few hours ago. I expect nothing really. It could also be because nobody ever checks this Computing section.
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hmmm. Pretty good stuff. »ζŦ↨©‬‬‬∑‡€Δ«
wow that helped, thank you MasterPenguin... but just one thing, did you type it your self or did you copy and paste it?
- ignore the watermarks, working on a fix for those
Certain ones that I have posted elsewhere, I copied an pasted, then edited it to fit this forum. For the others, I typed them all out by hand.
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oh ok.. its really helpful...
- ignore the watermarks, working on a fix for those
Now I can dangle knowledge of website access without proxies (which are blocked) in front of our resident snob squad. Thanks!
for DVYE (Download Youtube Videos), there's another site where you don't have to give your email, and generally it's faster.

http://www.mediaconverter.org

The instructions are there for you.
bye
Making Your Own Special Email Address doesn't work


Hi
Yes it does.
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nice thread

but you need "run as admin" the cmd on vista to use ipconfig(even if you are logged as admin).