A new version of Torpark, the portable anonymous web browsing tool, has been released.
If you are new to Torpark, it uses the Tor network to route your information through different systems so that it becomes more difficult to track where you are coming from. From the Tor website:
Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.
One thing of note. There appears to be some changes with Torpark coming with the company that is now formed which owns Torpark. They will be offering some premium services and even secure notebooks that appear to piggyback on the Tor network. I hope that the company finds success in this market because if they do not, there is a good chance that they will end up stopping all work and Torpark will either disappear or end up as an abandoned project.
The registry is the nerve center of the Windows computer system. It contains extensive information about how your system works and the way that it is set up. So, if something were to go wrong with your system and the registry becomes damaged, it would be good to have some of those setting readily available on case you need to recover them.
One really easy way of backing up select information in the registry is exporting that information using the Registry Editor that comes with Windows. This is a relatively easy process that can save you a lot of time and effort.
For our example, let’s assume that we are working with the programs that start automatically when we start the computer. We want to be sure that we don’t mess up these registry entries so we want to back up the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key. To do this, we would perform the following steps.
Start the Registry Editor by going to Start→Run…, typing in regedit and then clicking the OK button.
Browse to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key and click on it.
Under the File menu, click on Export…
Save the file as Startup.reg on the desktop.
You have successfully saved the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key as Startup.reg.
The Startup.reg file is actually just a text file and you can open it up in notepad to see what iis in it. If you want to add these registry settings back into your registry, simply right-click on the Startup.reg file and select Merge.
Note: When you merge a registry file back into the registry, it will overwrite any settings that are in that registry key. Use with caution!
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A new version of Torpark, the portable anonymous web browsing tool, has been released.
