How To:Enable/Disable Hibernation in Vista
Windows Vista basically replaces the popular hibernate feature with a new one called ‘Sleep‘, which is a combination of both Hibernation and Stand-By. In any case if you use a computer that is not always connected to power like a Laptop, you do need hibernation features. Or maybe your scenario doesn’t needs hibernation. So why waste the hard-disk space that the hiber.sys takes on your system? In any case you need a method to easily enable/disable hibernation feature on your machine.
As usual, XpressZine would always give/suggest you the best and easiest option to do any task.
So open up your command prompt by typing ‘cmd‘ in the ‘Run‘ window. Once the ‘Command Prompt‘ appears type the below code to finish the task you want to achieve.
To Enable Hibernation:
Type ‘powercfg -h on‘ (without quotes)
To Disable Hibernation:
Type ‘powercfg -h off‘ (without quotes)
NOTE: You need to have administrator access to complete this function.
NOTE: A confirmation may not be given. If no error is displayed then it would mean that the command executed successfully.
How To: Add shortcuts to Vista ‘Favorite Links’ sidebar
How many times have you wished that you have an easy access to your most used folders? But alas! Windows generally shows only a default set of folders in the sidebar! And you thought you can never change that? See the below image then !!
All you need to do is any one of the below mentioned step:
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Drag and Drop
In Windows Explorer, go one level above the folder that you want in the sidebar and simply drag your mostly used folder onto the sidebar.
As you can see from the above two images the folder is easily being moved and how the folder’s link is placed inside the sidebar.
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Edit the Links folder
- Go to Run and type C:\Users\<Your User Name>
\Links - Add/Remove shortcut of folders that you want to be there in the sidebar.(Remember: Shortcuts and not the folders itself!!!)
- Go to Run and type C:\Users\<Your User Name>
How To: Access FTP etc., via a proxy/firewall
So you want to access ftp server but any software in the world that you use gives you a connection error. Sounds similar? Then read on…
If you are able to browse any ftp site but unable to connect using any third-party tools or softwares then you are behind an ISA Firewall Server. For most part of it, it would have been done by the company you work in, the college network backbone or even some of the cybercafe chains.
ISA Server provides the two basic services of an enterprise firewall and a Web proxy/cache server. ISA Server’s firewall screens all packet-level, circuit-level, and application-level traffic. The Web cache stores and serves all regularly accessed Web content in order to reduce network traffic and provide faster access to frequently-accessed Web pages.
You may not be able to access ftp via any third pary softwares as you are behind the proxy server and dns resolution is not the same now. For this you need to download and install the ISA Firewall Client from here.
The ISA Firewall client would help translate the dns resolution and other network messages to and from the third party softwares.
PS: This is not a hack, but the normal procedure. Oflate there were many people who got confused on accessing the ftp via a proxy server.
