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DNS cache shows what private browsing attempts to hide
Now that private browsing, a feature that aims to hide your tracks during a browser session, exists in all the major browsers you are probably using it quite extensively. Whether it’s at home, the...
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Improve your wireless connection by changing channels
Wireless networks are truly ubiquitous. If you live in any moderate residential density area, or just take a stroll down a city block, it wouldn’t be uncommon to come across dozens of wireless...
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Monitoring network connections To and From your computer
Maintaining a safe and secure computer isn’t a process that can be singularly defined. Instead, security is often a layered approach – a compilation of best practices and software-based safety-nets....
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Having user-specific wireless networks in Windows 7
Wireless network settings are generally global and applied to every user on a system – such is the case in Windows historically. Significant other A, child B, and guest C all share the same PC and...
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Indentifying which program is running on what port in Windows
Every networked application requires a port to communicate from within the Operating System. Open or otherwise unknown ports are the bane to security conscious individuals and why products that help...
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Changing the network adapter priority in Windows 7
Windows 7, and Vista previously, contain the ability to connect to a local network through any and all network adapters at the same time. This circumstance most often occurs on a laptop where you have...
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Using Windows Shared Folder Wizard to easily share files
Sharing a Windows folder on the network doesn’t have to be the daunting task it appears to be. When using the right-click context menu’s on a folder in Windows Explorer – the Share option is available...
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Using and managing Wake-on-Lan for an entire subnet
Wake On LAN or WOL is an ethernet networking standard that allows for a remote computer to be woken up by a specially crafted network message or packet. It wasn’t long ago that the implementation and...
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Accessing local drives on remote computers in Remote Desktop
Remote Desktop for Windows is an excellent and efficient way to manage many networked computers from the comfort of a single PC terminal. In its default configuration it more than gets the job done –...
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How to optimize the latency in your wireless network connection
Wireless networking is highly convenient and generally exhibits acceptable performance for most general purpose computer use. However, for some Windows users – more specifically, for some wireless...
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