Is there a way to simulate a direct connection if a program does not offer one?

Yes.. and No.. No if the program has no proxy network settings option at all.. Yes... if it has.. then can use a special program that redirects to direction connection or another external/internal proxy

Whats the Best Program to give annonymous chat,IM,browsing?

The Short Answer is: -

proxy servers, but as we all know not all of them are secure to use.so the best application I found for this is TOR, for windows and MAC because in how it works. Relaying with the clients opting in to be relays as well hiding your real IP behind the relay hops

Ghost 14 wont start with errors such as can not reconcile drives changes or ComputerPolicy

Ghost 14 seems easy to die on windows XP or vista. And the bulk of solutions on the web dont seem to always work. After days of fixing mine here is how I fix Ghost 14

The problem with ghost 14 it can detect a drive problem and not tell you which partition or drive in a friendly error message you have to dive into system logs, events and some trial and error to resolve the problem on pc. It can give crash messages and die ungracefully at boot up.

if you get any of these errors in event viewer related to ghost 14 these are the fixes I have found to resolve them.

 

Is there a way to hide folders on USB stick fat32 or NTFS?

Yes.. theres a neat tool available that works even when the software is not running or if you  connect usb in another computer! read for more info how to grab a copy. It works on all drive types and windows xp.

Copying across flaky Wifi LANs can be frustrating especially if they are large files

Question: I am Constantly annoyed that windows does not have a way to resume copying after dragging and dropping a large file from a remote pc like a server to notebook and it looses connection with each other because the wireless drops connection. Is there a better way to copy large files across a wireless LAN?

Dumping a listing of files on drive to word or a spreadsheet

Question:  How can I get a list of movie files on a harddrive or memory stick as a text file under XP/windows? e.g. save the list of files that appear in explorer window.

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People are always asking me PC technical questions, so I thought I would set up a section here to help