Minimalist Explorer Breadcrumbs for Windows XP

One of the more popular changes in Windows Vista is the Explorer Breadcrumbs feature that lets you easily navigate to folders below the current folder by using the drop-down arrows. We've already featured one alternative for Windows XP users, but we've come across a much better solution to share with you.
This explorer add-on is written to be as minimal as possible, and is much easier to install. Overall quite a nice solution for those stuck on Windows XP.
Installation
All you really have to do is download and install the utility. Close out all Windows Explorer windows, and then open up a new window, and you'll see the new toolbar over to the right.
Uncheck "Lock the Toolbars" if checked…
And then drag the toolbar down underneath the other toolbars. You can also hide the regular Address Bar toolbar if you'd like.
Usage
Since we are all running now, you can use the arrows to quickly navigate through the folders.
Or if you click in the address bar it will convert into a textbox address bar (which is why you don't need the original address bar)
You'll also notice that memory usage is extremely light, since it's a plugin for Explorer but written to be as minimal as possible.
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Blocking Spam from International Senders in Windows Vista Mail

I don't personally use the Windows Mail client that comes with Windows Vista, but while I was researching how to use it to access my Gmail locally, I discovered a nice option in the Junk Email Options pane.
A large amount of the spam that I get consists of mail coming from all sorts of international domains. Since I don't have many close friends that live in other countries, I really don't need to see any email from most of those domains, at least not on my personal accounts.
To block all of that spam mail from hitting your inbox, open Windows Mail and go to the Tools \ Junk Mail Options item. Click the International tab, and you should see this screen:
There are two seperate ways that you can block international spam: First, you can block the domains themselves by selecting them here. If you do the Select All option, you should be warned that .US is also in that list.
You can also choose to block message encodings. I blocked all of the asian message encodings, because I definitely can't read those languages, and about 1/10th of the spam I get these days is encoded in one of those types. Again, be careful about doing the Select All option or you will end up blocking all email from everybody.
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Enable More Simultaneous Downloads in Internet Explorer

Have you ever tried to download more than 2 files from the same website and noticed the third download doesn't start until one of the prior two are done? The reason for this is that the HTTP 1.1 spec says that only two connections may be allowed at a time, so your browser adheres to that limit.
We can boost that number for IE by using a registry hack, but let me warn you not to go crazy and increase it too far.
If everybody increased the number of connections it would really put a hurting on the webservers out there, and then webmasters would have to start blocking extra threads.
Manual Registry Hack
Open regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
On the right hand side, you'll want to create two new 32-bit DWORD values:
MaxConnectionsPerServer - This sets the limit for HTTP 1.1 servers, which is normally supposed to be 2
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server - This sets the limit for HTTP 1.0 servers, which is normally supposed to be 4
You can change the amount of connections for either one by changing the value, but I wouldn't try and crank it up too far, as you'll find your browsing becomes much slower than normal, and possibly would get you blocked from some servers for using too many connections. A safe bet is to double the defaults.
Downloadable Registry Hack
This downloadable hack will only slightly increase the values, which is probably the wisest course of action. You could modify the script to use more if you'd like.
You can download, extract and double-click on the registry file in order to enter the information into the registry. To uninstall, use the uninstall script included in the zipfile.
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What is dwm.exe And Why Is It Running?

Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) is the compositing window manager that gives you all those pretty effects in Windows Vista: Transparent windows, live taskbar thumbnails (that you can resize now), and even the Flip3D switcher that you can disable and replace with Switcher.
What happens in Vista is that applications write the picture of their window to a specific place in memory, and then Windows creates one "composite" view of all the windows on the screen before sending it to your monitor. Because Vista is keeping track of the contents of each window, it can add effects when layering the windows such as the transparency we're all used to, as well as the live preview thumbnails.
The benefit to using this approach is that Windows Vista can utilize the hardware acceleration features in your video card to create very smooth animations for minimizing and restoring, and even for the transparent effects.
What about Memory Usage?
If you open up Task Manager, you can see the dwm.exe process in the list, typically taking somewhere between 30-50MB of memory in my testing:
The size of the DWM process is controlled by the number of windows that you have open, since each window requires a buffer in memory to store the contents of the window. If you have a large number of very large windows open, DWM will use more memory.
The benefits of using a compositing window manager are worth that relatively small amount of memory under most circumstances.
Does Switching to the Vista Basic Theme Turn it Off?
The short answer is no, just switching to the Vista Basic theme will not turn off DWM, but it will reduce the memory usage a great deal.
How do you switch to Vista Basic? Just right-click on the desktop, choose Personalize, and then Window Color and Appearance:
Click on classic appearance properties at the bottom:
Then choose Windows Vista Basic and click the Apply button:
Note that I'm not recommending switching to the Basic theme, just explaining how to do it.
So How Do I Turn dwm.exe Off Then?
Note that I don't recommend turning this off unless you are playing games in fullscreen mode, and even then it likely won't help increase speed.
The only way to get rid of the dwm.exe process is to stop the service from running. Open up Services from Control Panel or the start menu, and then find the "Desktop Window Manager Session Manager" service in the list, and click the stop button. Note that you will be switched to the Vista Basic theme when you click the button.
To permanently disable it, double click on the item and select Disabled from the "Startup type" drop-down:
If you want to use the command line instead, you can open an administrator mode command prompt and use one of these commands:
Stop Service net stop uxsms
Start Service net start uxsms
Disable Service sc config uxsms start= disabled
Enable Service sc config uxsms start= auto

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Save Internet Explorer Bookmarks

Personally the only time I use Internet Explorer anymore is if I am downloading Windows updates or a certain page doesn't pull up correctly with Firefox. Speaking of that … there is a great Firefox extension for just such a situation IE Tab.
For work though I find myself in situations where I need to set up IE for users. Today I had to pull out an old IE trick for a user who was switching to a different workstation. They wanted to take their bookmarks from IE with them. Here is how.
Open Internet Explorer and click on File \ Import and Export…
This will start up the Import/Export Wizard. Click Next.
Since we are saving the bookmarks from this machine choose Export Favorites ….you can also export cookies and RSS feeds if you want to. Click Next.
Your will see your Favorites folder highlighted. Click Next.
Now we want to choose a location to store the favorites. Here I chose a network drive. You can also save them to a flash drive or a floppy if the file is not too large. After you have selected a location to store the file click Next.
Once the Wizard has finished saving the files click OK. Then click the Finish button. That's all there is to it! Now when you go to the new machine just run the Import Export Wizard and choose "Import Favorites" then point to the saved location.

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Print Pages in Internet Explorer 7 Without Headers or Footers

The headers and footers that always print along with the page when printing a page can be irritating. I know very well what page it was I printed, so it's not useful to me to show the URL at the bottom of the page.
If you want to turn the headers off just for a one-time print, you can use the Print Preview window, and then click the button to "Turn headers and footers on or off.
If you want to permanently turn these options off, you can use the Page Setup option instead.
Just click on Page Setup, and then you should see the dialog box.
You can just remove the text in the textboxes completely in order to get rid of the headers and footers, or you can change the options to display page numbers at the bottom, or really any combination you want.
Here's a full list of the options that you can use (You could also find these in the Vista help files, or possibly the IE7 ones)
&w - Window Title
&u - Page URL
&d - Date in short format
&D - Date in long format
&t - Time in regular format as shown on the clock
&T - Time in 24-hour format
&p - Current page number
&P - Total number of pages
&b - right align the next text. (You can see it in the default header, where &b is placed before the Page text)
&b[TEXT]&b - If you surround the text in &b on either side, it will center the text.
&& - A single ampersand (&)
You can combine these in any format you want. For instance you could do this:
I printed these &P pages on &d at &t
Which would give you something like this:
I printed these 10 pages on 02/09/2008 at 01:10 PM.
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Disable That Irritating AutoScroll Feature in Firefox

So you try to middle click on a link on a page and miss the link… then the round "Auto Scroll" icon shows up and suddenly the page is moving around and scrolling all by itself. It drives me crazy, so when it was mentioned in the latest Coding Horror article I figured I would write it up in case anybody else wants to disable it.
Note: You can't disable the same thing in Internet Explorer as far as I know.
Open up the Options dialog through Tools \ Options, click on the Advanced tab/button, and then uncheck the "Use autoscrolling" box.

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