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Map Local Windows Drive Path to a Drive Letter from the Command Line

If a long path is frequently accessed, assigning it to a spare drive letter can save time. This tech-recipe describes assigning a drive letter to a local drive path from the command line.

Find Map for Sidekick Contact’s Address

This tech-recipe describes a quick way to find a map for a Sidekick contact’s address.

Playstation Vita: How to Take a Screen Shot

Want to share a screen shot of your high score? Need to save the image of your victorious triumph within a game? Capturing a screen shot on the PS Vita is simple.

IE 9 and IE 10: Change the Number of Days to Keep History

By default, Internet Explorer will keep a list pages that you visited in the History for twenty days. However, if you want to clean the history more frequently or if you want to keep the history longer, these directions will show you how to change it. This works for IE 9 and the upcoming release of IE 10.

Jump to Another Sidekick IM Conversation

These instructions describe an easy way to switch between IM conversations on your Sidekick.

XP/2000: Configure Client SNTP Time Protocol Settings

Using the simple network time protocol (SNTP) client on a host allows automatic adjustments to the system time. Keeping the time consistent between hosts in a network is essential for some applications and is helpful for correlating events on different systems.

Opera: Enable or Disable the Do Not Track Feature

Because of privacy reasons, browsers like Firefox and Chrome have an option to prevent sites from tracking users. In the latest version, Opera users can finally block this data collection as well. This tech-recipes tutorial will walk through all the necessary steps to activate the “do not track” feature in the Opera browser.

XP: Deploy an INF file Automatically

The following tutorial explains how to install an INF file from the command line.

View the MAC Address Table on a Cisco Switch

Switches maintain a database of MAC addresses, both manually configured (static) and dynamically learned entries. During troubleshooting, it may be helpful to investigate the entries in the MAC table.

Playstation Vita: How to Customize the Start Screen Image

Changing the image for the start screen makes your PS Vita personalized and unique. This tutorial will teach you how to set your start screen to a custom image and how to restore back to the original, default image.

Dropbox: Limit the Download and Upload rate

When you leave the Dropbox application running in the background, it will start downloading or uploading contents as soon as there are changes in the Dropbox folder. Because the download rate is not limited by default, it can have great influence on the download speed of other downloading tasks. This tutorial will show you how to limit the bandwidth used while syncing with Dropbox.

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