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You can use this tutorial to turn ON/OFF your router. This can be used effectively if you want to go online and disconnect at a particular pre-determined time. For this purpose, batch files are needed. This guide is written for Huawei MT882 router. The scripts will work for other routers as weel, with some minor modifications. Place all the files in C:\RouterSwitchfolder.

Step 1: Download TST10 from winsite. Click here to download it.

Step 2: To turn OFF the router. Create a text file named disable.txt. Include the following lines in the file.

192.168.1.1
WAIT “Login: “
SEND “admin\m”
WAIT “Password: “
SEND “admin\m”
WAIT “–> “
SEND “pppoe set transport 1 disabled\m”

Step 3: To turn ON the router. Create a text file named enable.txt. Include the following lines in the file.

192.168.1.1
WAIT “Login: “
SEND “admin\m”
WAIT “Password: “
SEND “admin\m”
WAIT “–> “
SEND “pppoe set transport 1 autoconnect enabled\m”

Step 4: Create a btach file labelled routerOFF.bat, with the following text:

chdir C:\RouterSwitch
c:
TST10 /r:disable.txt /o:last_log.txt

Step 5: Create a batch file labelled routerON.bat, with the following text:

chdir C:\RouterSwitch
c:
TST10 /r:enable.txt /o:last_log.txt

Step 6: Now schedule the routerOFF.bat and routerON.bat using the Windows task scheduler

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This is in continuation to my previous post regarding ADSL router disconnection. Although the ping  technique solves the problem most of the times, sometimes the problem might still recur. This is because  some people change the Windows XP’s default settings. The most commonly changed value is the number of  half-open connections, thinking that doing so might increase their download speed. On the contrary, it’ll  attract more number of trojans and worms, and will result in rampant disconnections. It’s advisabe to  keep this value to 10 itself (defualt). In case, you need to change it desparately, raise the value to  200 (max). Keep the value between 10 and 200 at all times. Couple this with the ping task, and you’ll  have a rock-solid ADSL connection.

Today I found out a strange fact…..It’s possible to watch movies and any video file in Microsoft Paintbrush.

To do this, just open any video file from your favorite player, then press the ‘Print Screen’ button on the keyboard. Now open Paintbrush and paste this screenshot. You’ll now see a motion picture. Isn’t this amazing???

You can even save this file anywhere in your file system. Just save the paintbrush file on desktop. Now open that file and you’ll see the video being played right on your desktop. No need of a video player!!!

I went on to research about this, and found out that the software was designed such that it won’t be possible for anyone to capture a screenshot of a video easily. However it’s possible to take a screenshot of the video file being played by using the VLC player.

K-Lite codec pack is undoubtedly the best codec pack for playing video and audio files in any format. Here are a few tips and tricks:

It’s normal to see the black horizontal bar at the top and bottom of the screen when watching a movie. This can be quite irritating sometimes, especially if you have a small monitor. Fortunately, K-Lite codec pack has an option called “Pan & Scan”. What this basically means is that you can expand and shrink the video files you are playing. This is quite handy for those people who have small monitors. To use this monitor, play the video in full-screen mode. Then keep pressing the key 9 after activating the NumLock. This expands the screen size of the video file being played. To shrink the video, press 2.

This software also has a feature that boosts the audio volume. To use this, go to view->options. Select Audio Switchers under Internal Filters. Tick ‘Normalize’ and ‘Regain Volume’ and set the ‘Boost’ scroll bar to max. Now get ready to rock n roll. You’ll now get the best audio output, no matter what kind of speakers you have.