How to Set up TOR With Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)
Some of you might have heard of proxies or even use them a lot. They let you browse the web without revealing any of the details that you normally reveale while surfing a website (ISP, Location, IP Address etc.)
TOR isn’t a proxy, it is a worldwide network of routers that act as a proxy but it is 10X better than a proxy.
This is a guide on how to configure TOR to work with Internet Explorer 7.
TOR has a firefox plugin so firefox users have it the easy way but it can be confusing on how to set it up in IE7.
To start off with download TOR for Windows from here: http://tor.eff.org/download.html.en
After that run the installer and make sure that you tick the box for TOR, Vidalia and Privoxy but not TorButton Firefox Extension.
Once it is installed run Vidalia and Privoxy if they are not running already. In Vidalia Control Panel click settings.
In the server section turn “Relay traffic for Tor network” off if it isn’t already. In the “Advanced” section make sure the address is “127.0.0.1″, the port is “9051″. Leave the password as what it is, do not change it.
Now click the save button and then the exit button making sure you save the settings.
That is TOR configured properly, you are almost there, now all you have to do is set it up in IE7 (Internet Explorer 7).
Open IE7, Click Tools and then Internet Options. Go into the “Connections” tab.
At the bottom click the “LAN Settings” button. At the bottom of the new window it says “Proxy Server”. Tick the “Use a proxy server for LAN…” box.
Below that set the address to “127.0.0.1″ and the port to “8118″ (I know its different from before but its right). Untick the “Bypass proxy server for local connections” box then click Ok and then Ok again.
You are done. Your details will all be hidden and you will be safe and untracable while browsing the web.
To disable TOR do not go into the just go back into the IE7 settings and untick the “Use a proxy server box” and tick it whenever you want to use TOR again.
If TOR in IE7 isn’t working then make sure that Vidalia Control Panel and Privoxy are running. If you are still having problems then just leave a comment here and I will help you.
How to Uninstall Linux
Installing Linux can be a fairly easy process, create the partition and just boot to the CD, but when you want to uninstall it when you might get stuck.
Unlike normal software and programs, there is no uninstall button. You may think that you can just wipe the partition that you installed Linux on, but this will result in a corrupted MBR (Master Boot Record).
In this guide I will go through how to uninstall Linux when you are dual-booting with Windows XP and I will also go through how to uninstall Linux when you are dual-booting with Windows Vista.
Windows XP
- Make a backup, just in case something goes wrong.
- Windows XP is quite simple, at least its easier than Vista. First you have to revert the boot loader back to the default XP boot loader (right now you will be using the Linux boot loader, Grub). To do this just boot from you XP recovery CD that came with your computer and issue the commands “FIXMBR” and “FIXBOOT”.
- Now restart your computer and it should automatically boot into XP. If it does not then you need to make sure that you issued the commands from before using the XP recovery CD.
- Now you need to use some hard disk partition managing software to wipe the Linux partition and format it as NTFS for Windows. You can do this with almost all partitioning software (Partition Magic is good).
Now you are done. Next time you turn on your computer it should boot into XP and you should be able to use all the space that Linux occupied before.
Windows Vista
- Make a backup in case there is a problem.
- Boot into Vista like you normally would.
- Download EasyBCD from http://www.neosmart.net/
- Install and run EasyBCD.
- In EasyBCD, on the left, click “Manage Bootloader”. Then in the “Bootloader Installation Options” part of the window, choose “Reinstall the Vista Bootloader” and then click the “Write MBR” button. This will overwrite the Linux Grub boot loader with the default one for Windows Vista.
- In Vista, click the start menu and then control panel. In the control panel click “System and Maintenance”. Scroll down to the bottom and click “Create and format hard disk partitions”. In the window that opens you should see all the partitions on your hard disk. Right click on the partition that you have Linux installed on and then click “Delete Volume…”. You should also have a smaller Swap partition for Linux, do the same for that.
- Now right click on the new empty space and click “Format”. Give the new partition a name, select NTFS as the File System and click ok.
- Once that has finished, reboot your computer and it should boot into Vista and you should have an extra partition with all free space that Linux used to be on.
So now you can uninstall Linux 
Make sure that you take a backup, you only realise what you have when it is gone.