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How to move the Firefox profile folder to another partition

When we run Firefox the first run it creates a folder with an alphanumeric name containing all profiles. Its path is: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ This folder contains all your bookmarks, extensions installed, everything but everything the profile. Doing a backup and restore of this folder you can save and restore all that you have done with Firefox; In the light of...

How to backup Windows before formatting

Before formatting your PC you can backup a lot of files used by some softwares , here the paths where the most commonly used programs store their data in operating systems Windows Vista/ Windows 7 . In this way is possible to restore the data after formatting and reinstalling Windows. N.B.: to be able to access at these paths you have to enable the viewing of hidden files. Here the paths: Firefox...

Enable preview .mp4 files on Windows Vista/7

On Windows Vista and Windows 7 by default are not enabled previews of many files, including the files .mp4. To enable previews of the files we have to edit the registry as follows: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4] @="VLC.mp4" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{F6E3DA91-1220-4fb3-85EC-CF494D9FF7DD}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx\{...

Patch to sort the image gallery of the Nokia s60v5

One of the most unpleasant thing of Nokia devices is the uncontrolled appearance of images in the gallery; Installing a program, surfing the Internet, using a browser we could fill our gallery disproportionately making it unsightly but also slow to start and this is because it loads the images present in almost all the folders in your phone. The file that manage the gallery is the file 200009FE.txt located in the ROM Z of the nokia devices and this is its content: cenrep version 1 [owner] 0x200009FE [defaultmeta] 0 [platsec] cap_rd=ReadUserData cap_wr=WriteDeviceData [Main] 0x1 int 0 0 0x10001 string "\\private\\" 0 0x10002 string "\\system\\" 0 0x10003 string "\\activenotes\\" 0 0x10004 string "\\Data\\activenotes\\" 0 0x10005 string "\\sys\\" 0 0x10006 string "\\resource\\" 0 0x10007...

Patch to sort the music gallery of Nokia s60v5

Usually in the Music Gallery of the Nokia devices there is a confusion of songs and ringtones, in our gallery there are not only ours songs but there is every music file present in the device and this happens because the music gallery scans every folder of our phone. Fortunately this confusion can be avoided. The file that manages the music gallery is the file 101FFCD2.txt located in the ROM Z of the nokia devices and this is its content: cenrep version 1 [owner] 0x101FFCD2 [defaultmeta] 0 [platsec] cap_rd=alwayspass [Main] 0x1 string "C:\\DATA\\|E:\\" 0 cap_rd=alwayspass cap_wr=alwaysfail 0x2 string "\\SYS\\|\\PRIVATE\\|\\SYSTEM\\|\\CITIES\\" 0 cap_rd=alwayspass cap_wr=alwaysfail 0x3 string ".odf|.dcf|.asf|.m4a|.mp4" 0 cap_rd=alwayspass cap_wr=alwaysfail 0x4 string "C:\\data\\download\\|...

Patch to move the browser cache of Nokia s60v5 from C to E and increase its size up to 30 mb

A big problem of the Nokia devices is the management of the browser cache. Every Nokia device can use only few mb for the cache that is located in the unit C and this cause two problems: Having little space available for the cache every time you visit a site this will be fully charged in the phone memory and then browsing will be slower Since to host the browser cache is the small unit C we will have less and less space on it The file that manages the cache is the file 101F8557.txt located in the ROM Z of Nokia devices and this is its content: cenrep version 1 [defaultmeta] 0 [platsec] [Main] 0x1 int 1 0 cap_rd=alwayspass cap_wr=alwaysfail 0x2 int 4096000 0 cap_rd=alwayspass cap_wr=alwaysfail 0x3 string "C:\\system\\cache" 0 cap_rd=alwayspass cap_wr=alwaysfail 0x4 string "c:\\system\\...

Shadow Copy: script to manage the shadow copy space on Windows Vista/Windows 7

If you see that the space on your hard disk decreases abnormally do not worry, this is due to Shadow Copy . Shadow Copy is a feature introduced with Windows XP SP1 and allows the creation of manual or automatic backup copies and in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is used by its backup utility, System Restore and Previous Version; By default, the space used by Shadow Copy is 15% of the hard drive on Windows Vista and 5% of the hard drive on Windows 7; this means that for example, under Vista, on a hard disk of 300 Gb Shadow Copy can come to occupy about 40 Gb . Windows give us the possibility to manage this space with some simple command. We can check the space occupied by Shadow Copy with this command: vssadmin list shadowstorage /for=c We can resize the space available for Shadow Copy with...

HP Recovery Manager Reset: script to make more times the recovery discs

As we all know, HP Recovery Manager , the utility for the creation of recovery discs integrated in the computers Hewlett Packard allows you to create recovery discs only once, this is possible thanks to a simple control, when the set of Recovery Disc is created the HP Utility creates some control files in different paths through which the subsequent runs will ensure that he has already created a set of recovery discs. So if we wanted to create a second time our set of recovery discs that we are denied, a message warns that a copy has already been created and the program closes. Officially, the only solution is to contact HP to send off the recovery CD to an amount that is about 40-50 Euros. This happens on the Compaq and HP as HP dv5, HP dv6 e HP dv7 with Windows Vista or Windows 7. So as...

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