Secrets in Win XP

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Im not sure if many of you already know this but im going to tell you how to use FTP without any programs. I would also appreciate it if you clicked the blue tick to increase my rep if you find this useful.

O.k, this is very simple to do and user-friendly. Open up my computer and in the address bar, this is how you would type your FTP info :-

username:password@ftphost.com

Hit enter and there you go. Easy as that - I hope this will come in handy one day and that you have hopefully learnt something if you didnt know about this before.
 
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You can also save it as a favourite and it will appear under "favourites" in every folder
 
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Hey, I didn't know you could do that....Thanks for the tip.:)
 
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Thank you lol i never knew this... i might start using FTP :p it looks easyer
 
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Do you see the link "My Network Places"?
Here you can create links to http or ftp servers very easily.
You even get a little wizard to guide you through the process.
Have fun
 
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Thanks for the tip But i knew it lol and thought that you all guys may also know :D
 
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its not as fast as regular ftp, and if you somehow get disconnected, it will quit. and also you cant queque(spelling?)
 
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this also isn't a good option if your ftp server doesn't allow multi-connection's This uses ~3-4 connections to the server to pull int he data where as a normal ftp client will use just 1 connection. This greater opens the available connections so one person isn't hogging all the connections on a server and stopping other people connecting into the server to use the ftp.

Chris
 
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sohailamir52 said:
Im not sure if many of you already know this but im going to tell you how to use FTP without any programs. I would also appreciate it if you clicked the blue tick to increase my rep if you find this useful.

O.k, this is very simple to do and user-friendly. Open up my computer and in the address bar, this is how you would type your FTP info :-

username:password@ftphost.com

Hit enter and there you go. Easy as that - I hope this will come in handy one day and that you have hopefully learnt something if you didnt know about this before.
Click to expand...


This DOES NOT work if the password contains some special characters like "@" or ":"

For example if we take the password : p@ssword;
The input will be
username:p@ssword@ftphost.com
Windows will be confused and return an error.
 
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No problem. I'm happy to share my tips with everyone. :-D
 
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Wow, this is pretty cool, I never knew that.
I learn a lot more every day. :D
 
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I wouldn't say this was a secret either. And actually, Internet Explorer worked the same way until version 7. It has pretty much always been built into windows, then they pulled it out of IE, but luckily left FTP capabilities with the Explorer(since they haven't really made a new version.... ever).

The one thing that I'm pretty sure is this is probably one of the least secure ways to access an FTP server. Someone correct me if I'm wrong there. Also, for the comment about entering special characters. You do realize that you don't have to log in to an FTP server that way. Simply type the FTP server address(ftp.thiswebsite.com) and you will end up with an anonymous login, and from there your 'File' menu with have a 'Login As' option so you can enter your information(and choose to remember it). But once again, I think this is probably the least secure way of accessing an FTP server.

And what happened to 'Secrets in Win XP'? Only one secret(if you want to call it that) posted here. So lets start that back up.

if you right click on your desktop or in windows explorer and create a new text file(any name), then open that and type in something like "this app can break", save it. When you open it back up you get a surprise. Truth is it is some weird thing to do with encoding. Entering a string with the letter pattern of 4 3 3 5 in notepad always acts up and changing the encoding, so you see boxes or whatever.

Or if you right click your task bar(the big bar at the bottom(unless you moved it) where are your programs are listed) then you have a toolbar called 'Desktop'. This adds a menu that will show all your desktop icons and allow you to browse your entire computer without having to open up the start menu or My Computer. Useful to those who want to get to files quickly without having to open up My Computer, then browse for the file.

Also, while in this area, rather than give the 3 finger salute(Alt + Ctrl + Del), you can right click your task bar and there you will see 'Task Manager'. How helpful.

Also, in your 'Control Panel', go under the 'Accessibility Options'. There you can use the 'Mouse' tab to set the 'MouseKeys' option. With this, you can control your mouse with the numeric keypad(when NumLock is on). Helpful for when your mouse is broken, or something went wrong with it, or it is missing, etc. And hey, maybe some people just want to use it.


Hopefully one of those 'secrets' is useful to someone.
 
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