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1. Changing Your IP Address (Windows OS) netsh interface ip set address name=”Local Area Connection” static 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.254 You want to statically assign an IP address of 192.168.0.1 You want to set a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 You want to set a default gateway of 192.168.0.254 2. set static IP address to getting an address from DHCP. netsh interface ip set address name=”Local Area Connection” source=dhcp 3. Changing Your DNS Settings netsh interface ip set dns name=”Local Area Connection” static 192.168.0.250 4. The name of the interface you want to change the primary DNS setting for is Local Area Network The IP address of the DNS Server is 192.168.0.250 5. To change the IP address of the secondary DNS server you will need to specify the index parameter: netsh interface ip add dns name=”Local Area Connection” 8.8.8.8 index=2 6. set your DNS settings to be assigned dynamically netsh interface ip set dnsservers name=”Local Area Connection” source=dhcp for more ...

BLOCK USB drives (In WINDOWS OS). 1. Go to Start –> Run, type Regedit. 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlset\Servic es\USBStor 3. In the right pane, look for value Start and have value as 0000000(3) 4. Double click on that and change that value to 4. it required to restart the PC, USB is now blocked. In case if you want to get the USB unblocked, just change the value again to 3.

                      We've already looked at how you can create and manage multiple user profiles in Chrome, but Google's web browser is a program with many surprises—one of which is a beta feature that creates a generic guest profile that visitors can use to browse the web on your PC. Guest profiles are a must for anyone who occasionally hands over their PC to others. With guest profiles, you won't have to worry about your friends signing you out of Facebook and Gmail, futzing with your bookmarks, or spying some personal browsing habits you'd rather keep private. The addition of guest profiles is yet another feature that is slowly migrating from Chrome OS to Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Guests on Chrome Get started by copying and pasting the following line of text into Chrome's address bar:  chrome://flags/#enable-new-profile-management . Then, press Enter. This will...