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firewall - How to cut off Steam from the internet in windows?

I want to disable internet connection for Steam in Windows 7. How can I do this? (Steam offline mode is not an option for me) After change firewall rules, Steam is automatically adding his own firewall rule, for private and public connections. With both, allowing and blocking rule on the list, firewall is allowing Steam to connect. Is there any other way to block internet connection for application in Windows? I dont want to install any other firewalls. It would be great to enable and disable this connection via command line. Answer You can use the Windows hosts file to redirect any requests to the Steam service to your local machine ( localhost or 127.0.0.1 ). Those requests will be going straight into the void and Steam will not have any way to work around this issue, except for changing the servers they connect to (which you can block then, as well). You can find out which servers to block using Wireshark, or you can just google and try to find a list of Steam service IPs. This ...
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desktop customization - Windows 7 and wallpaper folders

I try to change my desktop wallpaper and I cannot choose a different folder from the one I chose at first... When I first installed W7 I changed the wallpaper by right-clicking in the desktop and choosing Customize (maybe it's not correct because I use the italian version) and then Change Wallpaper in the bottom and finally I browsed for a folder with some images in and chose the wallpaper. When I do the same exact things now, the folder I select in the final pass is not selected: I mean its pictures are not shown and it doesn't appear in the drop-down list. I can put a specific picture as a wallpaper by selecting it through Explorer, and some times (not always) the folder shows in the drop-down list. Is there any possible solution to this? Answer Had the same problem with not being able to browse for a different folder for background images. Turns out it happened after I removed the Pictures library. Simply using the 'Restore default libraries' command seemed to solv...
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How can I block a site in chrome

I would like to block some websites to improve my productivity. Is there any way to block some sites in Google Chrome, preferably an extension or so? It doesn't have to be "airtight" blocking (hey, it is for myself), but just deny access when I find myself accessing that page. Note that editing my host files is not possible. This seems to be the only solution that comes up when googleing for it.
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wireless networking - Is it possible to hide the SSID of the Windows 7 soft AP

I know it is possible to create a sofware AP in windows 7 using command prompt: netsh wlan set hostednetwork ... But is it possible to set such a network not to broadcast its SSID? I realize that this does not gain any security - or may even make the system more secure, but I am not asking about security here. I want to know if it is possible, through the netsh command interface, to hide the SSID. If my client wants to hide the SSID, then I will make them aware of security implications, but in the end it is their decision. Answer The question of Goro is NOT about security. To answer the question I'd add that when you read the documentation , you can't see any mean to hide the SSID. It's not a functionality which seems to be implemented.
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linux - What do I have to take care of when hibernating both Ubuntu and Windows (dual-boot environment)

I've got both Windows 7 and Ubuntu (finally) installed on my laptop. For the sake of comfort, I usually hibernate Windows instead of shutting it down. And I think when using Ubuntu regularly, there will be times when I do that to quickly switch from Windows to Ubuntu to check or do something quickly and then want to continue my work on Windows. 1) Are there any problems with hibernating both Windows and Ubuntu at the same time? I should probably also mention that I created an extra partition which I use to access from both Windows and Ubuntu. I would like to put my www directory of my test web servers on that drive, so that I can work on that stuff both from Windows and from Ubuntu. 2) So - is this a good idea and what do I have to be careful with? EDIT: One important sidenote I forgot: I want to share a Mozilla Thunderbird profile directory on a shared drive. Does that change anything?
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macos - Mac OS X: conventional places where binary files should live

I've downloaded an application that is a command-line application, and want to put it somewhere where I can run it from the command-line without having to type the path explicitly. What are the conventional paths used for something like this? /usr/bin ? Are there different options, one if I want it for all users, and one if I want it for just a particular user, like my administrator account? Or should I put it in its own directory under the Applications directory, and add it to the path? If so, which file controls where the path is set? Answer Core answer: you probably want /usr/local/bin . Depending on how recent your macOS is, you may need to update your default $PATH . See below for further details. UPDATE 12-01-2018 At some point since I wrote my original answer, Apple changed its default $PATH . As a result, a lot of what I say below is irrelevant to recent Macs. If you type echo $PATH in a terminal, and /usr/local/bin is first, then you can ignore everything below about ...
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