How to Remove and Uninstall Bonjour mDNSResponder.exe Process
Bonjour (mDNSResponder.exe) is a general method or Apple’s tool to discover services on a local area network; basically what it does is to search for software updates and reminds you on the latest patch. It can be somewhat annoying and it consumes your computer’s processor and memory usage. The Bonjour service starts automatically and execute a process named mDNSResponder.exe when Windows boot up, the annoying part is it can’t be ended by Windows Task Manager or removed from the add and remove manager in control panel. So, how do we go about deleting it from our computer?
Before we begin the journey of removing this annoying software, we ought to make sure you’re not running these selected programs:
- Any Apple Software, iChat, iTunes and many more
- Adobe Creative Suite 3
- Adium
- Fire
- Pidgin
- Skype
Remove Bonjour mDNSResponder.exe
Step 1. Go to Start > Run and type the following command and hit OK.
“%PROGRAMFILES%\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe” -remove
Step 2. Go to Start > Run again and type the following command and hit OK.
regsvr32 /u “%PROGRAMFILES%\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll”
Step 3. Restart your computer
Step 4. Delete the Program Files\Bonjour folder
Note: Please take into account the path to Program Files maybe different if you are running Windows in other language. You need to enclose the command in ” “, or double quotes. Just as it is shown above.
If the following process appears to be somewhat too complicated, or too geeky, surf to Gizmo Project’s website, they have created a small tool called Turn Off Bonjour, basically what it does is it turns off and removes the redundant Bonjour service from your computer. You are still required to delete the Bonjour files and folder from your C drive manually.
If somehow things went haywire and you’ve messed up your computer’s system, fear not, download and reinstall Bonjour for Windows from Apple. It is highly advisable to download these tools before you proceed with the task of removing Bonjour, just in case Bonjour really messed up your TCP/IP and cuts you off from the internet.
Why you should delete or remove Bonjour?
Bonjour can be a security threat by leaving a port open on your machine so that it can send data back and forth between the host company of the product you’ve installed. This allows hackers to gain access to your computer if that particular software you are using came with a bug, furthermore, it consume your bandwidth unnecessary, who needs a software to reminds them of software updates? If I need a software patch due to frequent crashes, I’ll visit the official website!
Google Search Hack: Free eBooks, Comics, Music, Videos, MP3
The term Google Hack means to utilize Google’s powerful search feature and indexes to narrow down the results to your advantage, in short, you are able to Google for free ebooks, read paid articles with Google cache, download mp3 and many more.
We’re not too sure if this is illegal, but if it is, why would Google allows such search strings to exist?
Search MP3
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Michael Jackson” mp3
Using this string we are using the “index of” and the inurl commands to attempt to isolate directories only. The mp3 tag on the end tells google to look for mp3s in these open directories. You can change this to wma or ogg if you wish.
Alternative:
- site:4shared.com mp3|ogg|wma Gorillaz
- mp3|ogg|wma site:megaupload.com Justin Timberlake
- site:badongo.com mp3|wma|ogg “clint eastwood”
- site:mediafire.com mp3|wma|ogg daughtry
Search eBooks
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(”/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip)
What does all of these weird strings mean? The -inurl htm and -inul html is attempting to filter out the regular html webpages and to display just the index pages. Searching for index of in the title is doing the same. Using the pipe ( | ) tells google to look for something OR something else. The search string is sending a query to google to search for book or ebook directories, several common ebook formats are zip, pdf, and chf.
Alternative:
- site:4shared.com pdf|lit|doc Lord of the Rings
- site:megaupload.com pdf Neufert
- site:badongo.com pdf|lit|doc Rich Dad Poor Dad
Search Comics
Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics cbr
or -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics cbz
A large number of comics on the internet comes with a .cbr or .cbz extension for use with a digital comic reader software such as CDisplay (Windows) or FFView (MacOS). However you can decompress the files and read them in any image viewer such as ACDsee. Simply rename the cbr extension to rar or the cbz extension to zip and decompress with an application such as 7-Zip or WinRAR.
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