Playing youtube videos, even if youtube.com is blocked
There is a hint, which will allow you to play Youtube videos even if it is blocked at your workplace. All you need is a Youtube link and gmail.com available.
Solution
If gmail.com is available open chat with anyone from your contacts and paste youtube link. For full screen click Pop-out and resize window. Bingo, what a surprise — video just works fine.
Some of you may tell that you knew about it, but for example at my work youtube.com is blocked and my colleague was always using sites like youddl.com to download videos from youtube.com, when i suggested him this easy solution. 
Permanent folder for incoming files in Skype
If you are sick and tired of selecting the folder to save an incoming file in Skype, do the following. Go to Tools→Options→IM&SMS and there on the bottom select: Save all files to: and choose the desired folder. That's it — and you will probably save a lot of time in future.
Resurrecting opened tabs in Mozilla Firefox
Tired of losing opened tabs if Firefox crashes, there is easy solution, not all of you may be familiar with. If you want Firefox to save all opened tabs and reopen them after crash or close go to Tools→Options then select the following: Show my windows and tabs from last time.
Disabling UAC (User Account Control) in Windows 7
If you want to disable UAC (User Account Control) notifications, type in run msconfig then go to Tools → Change UAC Settings and press Launch. In the next pop-up window choose Never notify and press OK.
The procedure is very similar in Windows Vista, so i hope you can handle it.
Benchmark for a hard drive
Found quite a cool tiny application, called HD Tune, very simple to use. I was testing Seagate ST31000528AS, which is a 1TB Barracuda 7200.12.
Feel free to send your own tests of this drive with HD Tune.
Disabling Action Center in Windows 7
If you are absolutely exhausted reading messages popping up from your Action Center in Windows 7 i will probably help you today.
Go to Action Center (Open Action Center), on the left side on the very top - click
To completely turn off Action Center → click Turn system icons on or off here:
In the next window find Action Center and choose off, then hit OK.
Playing .mov files without QuickTime player
Never wandered why should you install QuickTime player every time after windows install to play .mov files? It was always a NO for me.
If you are not a fan of a QuickTime player, but still want to open .mov file on your windows machine, install a tiny player Media Player Classic or a K-Lite Codec pack. If you install K-Lite codec pack you can play .mov files with your basic Windows Media Player. That's it!
K-Lite Codec pack will also allow you to play .flv files too with the ordinary Windows Media Player.
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