This week we have a look at flaky DSL links, drawing out media from PowerPoint discussions, as well as exactly how to secure down IE to a solitary web site without any added software application or network setup hacking necessary.

When a week we dip right into our viewers mailbag and also help readers resolve their issues, sharing the useful solutions with you at the same time. Continue reading to see our fixes for this week’s reader issues.

Identifying a Persistent DSL Connection Issue

Dear How-To Geek,

I’m having problems with my broadband internet link. When the phone rings (as well as I address it), my broadband link times out. No telephone call, not a problem. Phone calls, shed broadband link? I have DSL-based broadband and a normal land line for my telephone solution. Where do I begin?

Best regards,

Put Me on the No Call List Please

Beloved No Call,

Check all the phone lines in your residence to ensure they have a filter on them. DSL filters are analog low-pass filters made to stop interference in between the regularities used by your DSL solution as well as the regularities made use of by your telephone solution. You should have a filter on every telephone, fax machine, and various other voice-band tool in your house or service (don’t neglect to check often overlooked however still linked gadgets like your TiVo). Without the filters in area the telephones and also fax machines can interfere with the lower end of the DSL regularity as well as create connection problems, consisting of the declines you’re experiencing.

If you currently have filters on all the lines, call your company and also ask if they will certainly send out a collection of brand-new ones out– you likely have a poor one somewhere in the mix. If you replace the filters and also still have connectivity concerns there is a possibility that there is a problem with your telco supplier’s filters/wiring someplace between your residence and also their tools. Things come to be extra complicated here– if it’s a problem with the electrical wiring in your house then you’ll likely be bearing the expense to fix it, if it’s an issue with the outdoors electrical wiring or their tools they’ll deal with it.

Extracting Media Files from PowerPoint Presentations

Precious How-To Geek,

I have a PowerPoint discussion I intend to extract the media documents from (such as the background music). Exactly how can I do so? There does not appear to be any type of method to save the audio as well as video in the slideshow independently from the slide show itself. Many thanks!

All the best,

PowerPoint Jam Master

Dear Jam Master,

You’re in luck. This repair is so easy you’ll be like “No way?” and also we’ll resemble “Way!” (or something in a similar way Wayne’s Worldian in nature). If you have Office 2007 or over you can open up the Powerpoint discussion, resave it as a.pptx data if it’s not currently in the upgraded style, after that rename the file with a.zip expansion (such as newfile.pptx– > newfile.zip). Open up the zip file and you’ll locate all the media nicely organized in directories. Workplace documents are secretly arranged utilizing a simple Zip documents format! If you wish to find out more regarding this very stealthy hack that depends on the clean company of PowerPoint files, learn more here.

Restrict Internet Explorer to One Web Site

Dear How-To Geek,

Is it feasible to limit a computer to one internet site? I do not just desire a home page I want to restrict users to that web page (specifically, an encyclopedia the users are enabled to gain access to). The computer concerned is running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8.

Sincerely,

One Page to Rule Them All

Dear One Page,

Internet Explorer has a constructed in content-management system that you can make use of to fulfill your incredibly focused white-listing demands. First, download this file from our web server, whitelist.rat (it’s a dummy rating apply for Internet Explorer’s Content Advisor tool, we’ll clarify extra regarding it in a moment).

Fire up Internet Explorer. Navigate to Tools– > Internet Options– Content. Click Enable under Content Advisor (it will certainly trigger you to establish a Supervisor Password before you continue, do so now) then click Settings. Under settings click on General and after that on Ratings System …, there you’ll click on Add and then navigate to whitelist.rat documents you saved previously. When you have the whitelist added, it needs to appear as WhiteListOnly in your Rating Systems list. Once you validate that it’s on the list then you can select the default rankings system ICRA3 as well as click Remove. Click OK to return to the Content Advisor settings menu.

Normally the Content Advisor tool calls on an remote data source of website scores as well as compares them to the websites the individual is attempting to access. The dummy data you downloaded and install earlier has fake web addresses in it and points to no such database. As a result the only thing Internet Explorer will certainly need to go off of is the white listing from Content Advisor. Let’s develop that white listing currently; in the Content Advisor Settings Menu click the Approved Sites tab. If there are any kind of entrances under it remove them. Add in the site you want your users to access, such as http://www.wikipedia.com and also click Always.

The screenshot over reveals the white listing in action. We went to Wikipedia then attempted to browse to Super Pete’s Porno Castle. The ol’ Porno Castle had not been on the white checklist as well as Internet Explorer blocks it, shows that the site has no score, and also demands a supervisor password. Success!