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| WinLocksmith is a program you use to customize various Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer (IE) settings, and it helps you organize IE Favorites (bookmarks) and clean unnecessary cached and temporary files from your hard drive. | |||
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When you start WinLocksmith it will ask you to
login with your name and password. This is done for security, so that unauthorized users
cannot use WinLocksmith to change the settings you have configured. The first
time you run WinLocksmith it will ask you to create a username. This can be any normal,
alphanumeric word, but it cannot contain spaces, quotes, punctuation or any unusual
characters (ie, do not use #, $, @, %, &, *, /, >, ?, -, _, etc). If you normally have to
login to Windows or your local network, do not use the same username for WinLocksmith. When you start WinLocksmith it will also ask you for a password. The first time you run it you must enter the password provided to you when you purchased the program. You should then immediately go to the Tools menu on the main program screen and select “Change Password,” and then change it to something easier to remember, and which is not easy for other people to guess. |
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WinLocksmith Main Screen - Microsoft Internet Explorer Tools |
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| Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) is a flexible web browser program
that offers many custom settings and options. (You see most of these
when you click IE’s “Tools” menu and then select “Internet Options.” You
can change these options, and keep other users from changing them, by
turning off access to various customization screens.) You can use
WinLocksmith’s Internet Explorer Settings screen and simply click to
select the options you want, and click on the “Apply” button to keep
your new settings. Some of these take effect immediately, most only take effect the next time you start IE, and some require your computer to be restarted before you’ll see the differences. |
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| Windows saves many settings in its Registry, a
special file that acts as a database to store these settings (and other
information Windows and other programs need to work properly). Although
you could learn all about the technical details of how the Registry
works, and then learn how to edit the Registry yourself by hand, WinLocksmith
saves you all that time and trouble. You can just click to select many
system settings, and then click on the “Apply” button to make changes to
the way your computer runs and the things you can do with it.
Changes to some Windows System settings may not take effect until the next time you restart the computer, so if you make changes here, remember to restart your PC when you’re done with the program. |
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| You may sometimes notice your computer slowing down a bit, or running out of hard disk space. This can happen because Windows saves various files on your computer to make it easier to restart or reload certain programs or documents. You can clean out various temporary files from your computer if you want to get back a bit of disk space, or it may be a matter of privacy; you might want to delete these files to avoid having other users know what you were working on recently, what web sites you visited, etc. The WinLocksmith Cleaning Screen lets you select a variety of temporary files that may be on your computer, and then delete them. | |||
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| Some files can not be deleted because Windows may report that these files are in use or necessary for the operation of other programs, or they may be restricted to being deleted by some other user. So WinLocksmith may not always be able to delete all temporary files it finds on your system. | |||
| Most web browsers save copies of the pages you view in a file folder called the “cache” so that subsequent view of those pages will load faster, assuming nothing on the pages has changed. These files take up space, and after a while they can take up a lot of room on your computer’s hard drive. This screen allows you to view, and optionally delete, the files Microsoft Internet Explorer has “cached,” or saved, on your computer’s hard drive. Not all cached files can always be deleted, however; sometimes Windows marks these files as “in use” or otherwise not erasable, so cleaning the cache does not always successfully remove every cached file from your hard drive. Most files, however, can be deleted and this can help reclaim a large part of the disk space they consume. Cleaning the cache also forces Internet Explorer to re-download the pages’ content the next time you view them, which can help ensure that you see the most up to date material. This is not normally a critical problem, though, so cleaning the cache is not considered an extremely vital task. | |||
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WinLocksmith Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites Editor Screen |
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| Microsoft Internet Explorer lets you save lists of web pages you visit regularly in a series of folders, which it calls your “Favorites.” If you want to change (add new, edit, delete or move) any Favorites, just right click on one and select “Organize” from the menu that pops up. | |||
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Here’s a tip: Let’s say you want to restrict a computer’s users to only viewing a limited number of web sites that are necessary for getting some kind of work done (perhaps you have your own “in-house” corporate intranet or you have specific vendors whose sites provide sales and ordering information). With Microsoft Internet Explorer, a special folder called “Links” appears in its own toolbar in the browser. You can simply put all the “approved” shortcuts there, and then use WinLocksmith’s Internet Explorer Settings screen to Disable Favorites, Disable the Address Bar and on the Windows Settings screen, select Remove Run Menu From Start Menu. This way, the only web sites the user can visit initially are those that have been placed into the Favorites Links category. (Although this does not stop the user from visiting other sites by clicking on links within those sites’ pages; this simply doesn't allow the user to type in a URL, or web site address.) |
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This screen allows you to change the password that protects WinLocksmith from being used by unauthorized persons. To change your password, enter your old password in the top box, then enter your new password in the “New Password” box, and again in the “Retype New Password” box (to verify that you typed it correctly). Then click the “OK” button and your new password replaces the old one. If you click on “Cancel” your old password remains in effect. |
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Remember to write down your password!
There is no way to recover it after you have changed it. If you change your default password and then lose or forget the new password, the only way this can be resolved is by calling the publisher for technical support, and a charge of $5 is made for this service because you will have to be sent a new copy of the software. |
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WS1OWinLocksmith is published and copyrighted © 2004 by Brian Battles WS1O, e-mail BrianB@BattlesZone.com, in Rocky Hill, CT USA. All Rights Reserved. Use at your own risk. This program make modify your Windows Registry, and you should always back up your Registry and any other important data before using it or any other utility. The publisher makes no warranty regarding this software’s suitability or applicability to any system or circumstance, and may not be held liable for any damages resulting from the use of this software. Microsoft, Windows and Internet Explorer are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. WS1OWinLocksmith is not connected in any way with Microsoft, and Microsoft does not support, recognize or endorse the use of this software. Limited support is available by e-mail to BrianB@BattlesZone.com. You may not copy, share, reverse engineer, transfer, modify or include this software with any other product without the express written permission of the publisher. |
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| About The Author... | |||
| The author of this program, Brian Battles, has been a professional programmer and consultant for more than 12 years. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional, and specializes in Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, VBA, VBScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), HTML. He has also written many articles for several publications in a number of fields. He is the father of two and is a licensed Amateur Radio operator (WS1O), and a member of Warren Lodge #51 AF&AM, Portland, CT (Masons). He was previously a commercial radio disk jockey and producer, and a writer and magazine editor. Brian's web site is http://www.BrianBattles.com/. He is available for contract programming work at reasonable rates, and his resume may be viewed at www.BrianBattles.com/resume/ His e-mail address is BrianB@BattlesZone.com, and you can also write to him at 38 New Britain Ave, Rocky Hill, CT 06067 USA. | |||
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