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It might happen on your CCNA exam, it might happen on your production network – but sooner or later, you’re going to have to perform password recovery on a Cisco router or switch. This involves manipulating the router’s configuration register, and that is enough to make some CCNA candidates and network administrators really nervous!

It’s true that setting the configuration register to the wrong value can damage the router, but if you do the proper research before starting the password recovery process, you’ll be fine.

Despite what some books say, there is no “one size fits all” approach to Cisco password recovery. What works on a 2500 router may not work on other routers and switches. There is a great master Cisco document out on the Web that you should bookmark today. Just put “cisco password recovery” in your favorite search engine and you should find it quickly.

The following procedure describes the process in recovering from a lost password on a Cisco 2500 router. As always, don’t practice this at home. It is a good idea to get some practice with this technique in your CCNA / CCNP home lab, though!

The password recovery method examined here is for 2500 routers.

An engineer who finds themselves locked out of a router can view and change the password by changing the configuration register.
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Do you remember the days? Firing up your 200Mhz turbo PowerPC, dialling up using your 56k modem, waiting an age for your hotmail page to show up, waiting some more to check your e-mails only to have your connection die just as you hit the send button! How times change.

It’s funny, once you’ve used broadband you quickly forget how painful the dial up connection was. I used to run my business on dial up and looking back I managed rather well. But these days there’s no way I could do without my broadband connection.

There’s no doubt about it, broadband is well and truly here to stay. It is of course a logical progression – streaming audio and video demand much higher bandwidth and broadband connections are the only way to achieve anything which is at all usable.

A recent survey revealed that 53% of Americans who use the Internet now use a broadband connection. What they failed to point out is that obviously this means 47% still use a dial up connection. This actually equates to around 60 million people. These kind of statistics are mirrored in other developed countries. When you consider a large chunk of the developing world still uses dial up then you realize that’s an awful lot of people still using a slow Internet connection.

So is it possible to speed up your dial up connection?

Well actually yes it is. There are quite a few services online these days allowing you to “accelerate” your dial up connection. These Internet accelerators claim to be able to boost the speed of your dial up connection by as much as six or seven times.
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There are so many kinds of software out there in the world. You may have heard of peer to peer systems, patches, and internet relay chat programs. There is also something out there today called adware. You may be wondering what adware is. What is adware anyway? Adware is basically any kind of software that automatically downloads advertisements and displays them on your computer. A lot of companies use this in order to promote their products. For example, if a company wants to promote its new soap then they will display an ad on your computer. This is a highly efficient way for companies to advertise because they have information about the user’s browsing habits. Through adware, a company can find out which sites you like and where you spend most of your time on the internet. This sound a bit scary because you might think that there is someone spying on you. You are right. There is some sort of spying going on.
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Everybody knows that renaming multiple files is such a pain. It will consume your time and your energy. You will feel so tired doing that thing. Well, it’s okay if the files are only 10 or more. But, how about hundreds files to rename? Wow, that will need a hard work. You must want to look for any way to make you can rename those files easily. Now, you can do this trick. It is very simple yet useful. You will save you time and energy. But, this is still a manual way.

This is how it’s done to rename multiple files easily. If the files contain same internal information such as the date taken or the ISO, you can just do this. All you have to do is just rename one file that will be your root file. Rename it just like you want. If you have another file that contains the same tag, it will change automatically to the same file name but with the addition of numbers following the file’s name. It is very useful when you have some files mix in one folder.

There is also another way to do the renaming things easily. If you don’t want to waste too much time and energy but still can rename the files, you can actually download software that can help you in renaming many files at once. This kind of software can be downloaded for free from some websites. It will help you a lot. All you need to do is just open the software and then choose the files you want to rename. After that, you decide what the name will be according to any information about your files. You can use any internal information of your files. In the software, there is also feature to preview your about-to-be-renamed files. So, you can check the files first to avoid any mistake.