Skype is a great application and extremely useful, but what happens when you need to run multiple instances of it? Maybe you have two different Skype accounts you’d like to use at the same time, the application does not allow this, but with this little trick, you’ll be able to do it easily.
Please note that this is intended to be used on Windows XP. Other Windows systems may be able to do it, but may require different steps, though the general process will be the same.
- The first thing you need to do is create a second shortcut to Skype either on your desktop, taskbar, or the Start menu. You can do this by going to the Skype installation directory (usually C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone), right-clicking on Skype.exe, and selecting Create Shortcut. You may also just drag and drop the application icon to the specified area.
- Now right-click on the shortcut icon, and select Properties.
- Click on the Shortcut tab, then click Advanced.
- Then check on Run with different credentials and click OK until all windows close.
- Now that we have the shortcut settings prepared, we need to make sure we have the users set up. This trick works by having Skype run using different users, so you will need to have set up at least two users in the User Accounts section of the Control Panels. Be sure to do so before you continue.
- Next up, we’ll run Skype. Click on the new shortcut you created in step 1 of this guide and wait for it to start up. You will see a new window come up which looks like this:
- When the Run As… dialog comes up, select a user which is not logged in at the moment. For this example, I used my wife’s account. Also, enter the password if necessary.
- After a few seconds, you will see the second instance of Skype come up! Now you can use multiple accounts on the same computer. Enjoy!
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Firefox for Newbies
a. Click Tools – Page Info
b. Click the Media Tab on the Page Info Windows
c. The media tab has a complete list (with preview) of Images, CSS Files and Shockwave Flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while rendering (loading) the page.
d. Scroll down the list and locate the swf file.
e. Click the “Save As” button. Select some directory on your hard drive and save the file (No need for a third-party plug-in)
Firefox for Geeks and Power Users
a. Type about:blank in the Firefox address bar
b. Now click List cache entries or directly type about:cache?device=disk (Disk cache device)
c. Press Ctrl+F and try to location the flash file by typing some part of website URL or the flash file name or just .swf. After some hit and trial, you should be able to locate the swf file URL
d. Click the SWF URL to open the Cache Entry Information page. Right click on the link and choose “Save link as”
How to save flash in IE browser
a. Click Tools – Internet Options
b. In the General Tab, click the Settings button available in the Temporary Internet Files group.
c. Click View Files to open your Temporary Internet Files folder. Depending upon your IE settings, the Temp. folder can contain tens of thousands of files.
d. Click View – Details. Now click View – Arrange Icons By – Internet Address. Depending upon the webpage, there could one or more Flash files (Shockwave Flash Object) under the Inernet Address.
e. Once you find the right flash file, right-click and choose Copy. Then paste the swf file in any other directory. Be sure to
keep the page and IE open to avoid purging of the cache file.
For newbies, I suggest the following approaches:
1. Get a download accelerator like Flashget and tell it to automatically download the shockwave extention (*.swf)
2. Or download a free IE plug-in for saving flash files.
How to save Flash files from Opera browser
Just like IE, Opera stores the flash files in the browser cache.
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If you want to create shortcuts to your favorite URLS but don’t want them to show in your Favorites folder:
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES / Software / Microsoft / InternetExplorer / AboutURLs
3. Add String Values with the shortcut name you want to use
4. Give them the value of the URL you want the shortcut to go to
5. Then from the Internet Explorer, simply type about:shortcut_name
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To specify the default download directory for the Internet Explorer
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer
3. Add a String value called Download Directory
4. For it’s value, enter in the Directory where you want your downloaded files to go
Disabling the Ability to Change the Default Download Directory
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If you want user’s not to be able to change the Default Download Directory
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_USERS \ .DEFAULT \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Restrictions
3. Create a DWORD value called NoSelectDownloadDir
4. Give it a value of 1
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Normally you can only download four files at a time with Internet Explorer.
To increase that to as many as you want:
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
3. Change the MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server to whatever number you want
4. Change the MaxConnectionsPerServer to whatever number you want
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You can easily determine when a web page was last updated.
Open up the page you want.
Enter javascript:alert(document.lastModified) in the Address bar
Note: You only need a java capable browser
This is shown in the figure below:
An Easy Way to Do It
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To use this without all the typing each time:
1. Open C:\Windows\Favorites folder in Explorer
2. Copy (you must copy, NOT make a new shortcut) any existing shortcut in that folder.
3. Paste it back to the same (C:\windows\favorites) directory
4. Right click it, click properties, in the URL: box put in your tip javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
5. Then rename it, I named it Date Info.
That’s it, it’s always there in Favorites when you want it.
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