That's why I've made this little "script" for the other users at school (in fact it's just a .reg file that windows will import).
Set and enable a proxy server (copy the following code into a file with a .reg extention)
CODE
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001
"ProxyServer"="10.22.40.6:3128"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001
"ProxyServer"="10.22.40.6:3128"
Set and disable a proxy server: (same thing, copy to a DIFFERENT file with a .reg extention).
CODE
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000000
"ProxyServer"="10.22.40.6:3128"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000000
"ProxyServer"="10.22.40.6:3128"
If you save them on your desktop, it's just a matter of double-clicking the file to enable or disable the proxy.
Firefox users can use a small addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1557
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While I was trying to make things more easy, I've made a small script that easily maps network drives (eg. by a single click, I can map all the shared folders on my main computer as network drives on my laptop
Make a .bat file and copy the following code to it
CODE
net use z: \\127.0.0.1\z
replace 127.0.0.1 by the name or IP-adress of the external computer and 'z' by the name of the shared folder you'd want to map. 'z:' defines to drive letter.
So, for example:
CODE
net use p: \\my_computer\media
Will map the shared folder 'media' on 'my_computer' to the drive letter p:
Happy networking

