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Test your server speed And Purpose of Tracert Command.

Test your server speed And Purpose of Tracert Command.
How to test your server speed?? And what is the actual purpose of Tracert command?? Well if i ask same question to my friends they will reply ” Why not !! we can easily test our server speed by using softwares. There are many softwares which can test server speed”.. Well they are absolutely right. But we have to think about this question ” can we test server speed without any software??”

Many of my friends don’t know what is the purpose of using dos prompt. There are many utilities should be known that DOS can provide fascinating information about your Internet Connection. You can also use utilities in Windows XP through command prompt. Two utilities are located in the folder \Windows\System32 for Windows XP. So in order to use utility you need to log on to that folder via the Command Prompt (CD \windows\system32).
Acutal purpose of ping command : I use ping command to find out if a site’s server is down or responding very slowly. Just follow the steps below.
1. Connect to the Internet.
2. Now open Command Prompt. Click on Start-> Run -> Type ” cmd” or “cmd.exe” without quotes.
3. If your are using Windows XP then you must log on to your System32 folder. To do this, type CD \windows\system32 and press Enter in the Command Prompt.
4. Now type ping www.elechub.com ( subsitiute your sitename in place of elechub) and press Enter.
You will receive Request Timed Out message if your server is down or very slow. Otherwise, you will see a series of numbers as shown below. Your server takes time to respond your command. From the below figure if the number of packets sent is equal to number of packets received, then your server is up. It is working proporly. If your server is very slow then number of packets will not be equal to received packets. It shows some loss in percentage. such as 34% loss.

Purpose of Tracert Command : It is a router command which traces out the route and permits you to access a particular server. The tracert command is a command which gives you a long list of all servers you pass through on your way to your final destination.( Maximum up to 30hops- if your route is longer than that, you’re likely to give up waiting for the connection).
Just type tracert www.yoursitename.com You will see long list of servers. This indicates that your domain will pass through all these servers. If the list is big then your server is bit slow.

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how to remove Remove NetBIOS from TCP/IP ??

how to remove Remove NetBIOS from TCP/IP without touching the Registry??
NetBIOS is a session layer communication service used by client and server applications in IBM token ring and PC LAN networks. The main purpose of  removing NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System) from TCP/IP is to have increased system security and possible increased transfer speed. NetBIOS provides many applications. Major applications with programming interface for sharing services and information across a variety of lower layer network protocols. Before reading the below steps first you make sure you are NOT already using the NetBIOS protocol network/LAN/WAN etc. If you are any network or protocol it will seriously impair your connection. Below steps will explain you How to Remove NetBIOS from TCP/IP without touching the Registry..
Remove NetBIOS from TCP/IP without touching the Registry:
1.Open Network Properties.
2. Install Microsoft NetBeui only if you have peer-to-peer network for sharing files. And set this  to default protocol.
3.Change the Log on type to Windows Log on.
4.Now Restart your system.
5.Open Network Properties.
6. For EVERY TCP/IP occurrence: select Properties -> Bindings -> uncheck Microsoft Network and File/Print Sharing EVEN for TCP/IP Dial-Up Adapter.
Windows will complain that you have not bound TCP/IP to anything, but when it asks if you want to bind it to something, click No.
7. Again restart when promoted.
8. Now open Network Properties.
9. Now check to make sure that NetBIOS is unchecked in ALL TCP/IP properties, if it is checked, uncheck it, and then reboot if necessary.
Now you have removed NetBIOS from TCP/IP. Now all your file/print sharing is done by NetBeui, which is inaccessible from the internet.

Well i will not the above method to remove NetBIOS from TCP/IP. There is a much simpler way to remove NetBIOS from TCP/IP. We can easily turn on/off NetBIOS. You have to Just rename the file %windir%\SYSTEM\VNBT.386 to something else. Restart your system. Now your NetBIOS is disabled
NetBIOS ports will be closed. Few NetBIOS ports are  nbname (UDP port 137), nbsession (TCP port 139) etc etc. If you want LAN then just rename it again to VNBT.386 and reboot..
I hope you like trick. From the second method You can easily Remove NetBIOS from TCP/IP.

How to remove AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) ads ??? Remove AIM ads

How to remove AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) ads ??? Remove AIM ads..
You can easily remove AIM annoying ads without using 3rd party software. This method tested only with AIM v4.x.xxxx. The main problem is AIM will download ads and place them at the top and bottom of the main AIM buddy list, which you might have seen while you logged on in AIM. Our aim is to remove those ads forever. If you find them as annoying as I do. You might be wondering How i am going to remove annoying ads in the AIM window??? Well , this requires a little man work..

1)First Browse to your main AIM directory and open the file named AIM.ODL in notepad. Make sure that your AIM is not currently loaded.You can remove ads only when your AIM is not currently loaded.
2) Scroll down. You can see the below lines:
on_group(5)
{
load_ocm advert required
}
on_group(11)
{
load_ocm advert required
}
3)Now remove the lines inside the brackets, but leave the carriage returns (empty lines).
If you had followed the above line correctly then these lines should now look like this:
on_group(5)
{
}
on_group(11)
{
}
4) Now save the changed file in a notepad and close it. If you have done everything right then you cannot see annoying ads whenever you logged on AIM. You can see two blank spots at the top and bottom of your main AIM buddy list.