ES5 is the ultimate Person to Person sharing computer program. It will allow you to hook up with people around the world. You can share your interests and desires and allow corporations, companies and work groups to quickly enable their users to share important files like never before. With ES5 you can set up your own personal web site, locate new friends or lovers, chat with video over the Internet and much more.
Our group is made up of many people including Jordanians,
Palestinians, Indians, Russians and Israelis. Some of us are Jewish,
some are Christians, others are Muslim.
Believe it or not, we all love and respect each other. We all
work and play together. Our families on many occasions eat at the same
dinner table. We trust each other and are very close friends with each
other.
As a group, the most important thing in our life is our
children, our families and loved ones and of course our friends.
This setting tells ES5 Searches that your planet is dedicated to a particular language. This means that, if other ES5 users Search for files, and specify a particular language, ONLY Planets dedicated to that language will show up. NOTE: This is NOT the character set/alphabet that ES5 appears in, that is specified under "Use Character Set".
You may have a desire to specify what country you are in, so that other users can specify a particular country to search (or avoid searching). When searching, if you specify a country to search, only ES5 planets with that country setting will return results. This works very similar to the Language Setting above.
ES5 has the ability to display itself in multiple languages. Choose the language of your preference here if it is available.
Please enter your current email address. ES5 does not publicize,
sell, or advertise email addresses. If another member likes your Life
Form statistics, this is a way for them to contact you.
To preserve your privacy you should create yourself a
"webmail" style address. Here are some web sites that offer this- you
can use one of these, or choose your own.
hotmail.com
phantom.org
datapimp.com
joinme.com
gotomy.com
Or go to Free
Email and choose your own.
If this is set to a non zero value, ES5 will automatically minimize after that many seconds. If you have passwords installed, ES5 will require a password to restore/maximize. This is a security feature to prevent unauthorized users from accessing your ES5 if you walk away from your computer.
Please check AutoRun if you desire to initiate ES5 when your computer starts up. Remember, the more you share, the higher your priority is and the more precedence you are given to download the files you desire from others.
To increase/decrease the font size resolution, select one of these choices.
ES5 offers a variety of skins that provide different graphic colors and dimensions for foregrounds and backgrounds.
Enter your Internet Connection type.
This allows you the ability to decide how much bandwidth (Internet
Speed) you would like to allocate to other planets. This will limit
the speed you can download and upload. The value put in here is bytes
per second. Bytes per second is a more human oriented value than bits
per second which is how many connections are measured.. In some cases,
there are 10 bits per byte and in others 8, so, Bytes per Second is
1/10 or 1/8 of bits per second. These are all THEORETICAL
maximums. You never actually get the speed stated, but you can come
awfully close. Below are some common values.
| Type of connection | Bits per second | Bytes per second |
|---|---|---|
| Dial up Modem 33k | 33,000 | 3300 |
| Dial up Modem 56k | 56,000 | 5600 |
| ADSL | 128,000 | 16,000 |
| SDSL/DSL | 144,000 | 18,000 |
| ADSL | 384,000 | 48,000 |
| ADSL | 512,000 | 64,000 |
| ADSL | 768,000 | 96,000 |
| T1 | 1,440,000 | 180,000 |
| ASDL | 1,536,000 | 192,000 |
| Wireless | 2,000,000 | 200,000 |
| CableModem | 10,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| T3 | 43,000,000 | 5,375,000 |
ES5 keeps track of the maximum download/upload you have actually achieved. Knowing what your true speed is (vs what your ISP tells you it is) will help you allocate a more accurate value for what you want to share.
This is the percentage of your actual bandwidth that your specified allocation is using.
Every Planet has a Sun. The Sun is the ES5 Star where your file
information is kept. ES5 tries to concentrate file information in as
few Stars as possible. This keeps network traffic down, and lets you
avoid congestion which can make getting files difficult.
When your Planet connects to the ES5 Universe, you send
information about your shared files to a Star which becomes your
Sun. If you are sharing more than 1000 files, you become your own
Star. If you are sharing more than 1000 files, you become your own
Sun.
The ES5 network consists of millions of Planets around the
world all participating. In order to participate, you need to locate
just one of those Planets. These are the various methods you can
use. You do not need to change these settings unless you are trying to
do something special.
Check this setting if you want to use ES5 as a private network (such as within a corporate network) without contact with the outside Internet. If you are using this setting, you might want to uncheck all the other Locating methods so you do not accidentally connect to the outside world.
This setting causes a similar situation to Use Subspace Multicast but only sees Planets on the same network cable.
This setting makes you locate other Planets by remembering the planets from a previous time you were connected. This is the main method ES5 uses to find Planets.
This method tells ES5 to get a list of good Planets from some Planets that are already connected.
If you want to specify a particular Planet to be your Sun, you can do so here. This would normally be used only where you have a private ES5 network, but not limited to that. You can enter the Star address as an ip address with port, like this for example: 207.24.124.332:40000. Your address and port will be unique so do not use the example given above. The port number will be the port number of the Star computer's Search Service port.
Threads are independent activities that ES5 can
perform. Downloading a file uses a thread etc.
The limit here is just a safety to prevent ES5 from doing too
much, for example if many file requests come in at the same time.
ES5 does not limit number of downloads or uploads by
number. It limits these by bandwidth. If you are currently using 100%
or more of your allocated bandwidth, ES5 will not allow any more
uploads of files FROM your computer TO someone else. It will also stop
sharing files for the duration that your bandwidth usage is above
100%. It will not limit the number of DOWNLOADS you can do. If you
choose to smother your own bandwidth with downloads, that is under
your control. One of the design criteria for ES5 was to eliminate
unreachable files. Though we cannot guarantee 100% availability
(someone could stil turn his machine off RIGHT as you begin
downloading from him) we are doing everything we can do prevent
disappointment in getting the files you desire.
A firewall is a filter that blocks traffic to and from the
Internet. Which particular traffic it blocks depends on the setting.
If you do not understand this setting, leave it on AUTO.
If you have no firewall OR adjust your firewall to permit all
traffic to ES5 to enter your computer, choose NO firewall. You can see
the ports which ES5 requires by looking at the Advanced Settings.
If you block access to ES5 with a firewall, choose Yes.
UNLESS YOU ARE VERY EXPERT IN FIREWALLS LEAVE THIS ON
AUTO
In addition to Firewall Settings that allow ANY Internet
application to work (Allowing Inbound (non-connection) traffic to all
TCP ports above 1023 and ALL UDP traffic above 1023) ES5 works best
(more files for you) when you allow inbound connections to all the TCP
ports it is using (see Advanced Settings) and all UDP traffic to
the Search Service Port.
The entire purpose of a firewall is to give YOU complete
control over your network traffic. This also means you are free to
shoot yourself in the foot by being too restrictive.
Checking this will tell ES5 to not look outside of the local network (multicast range) for peers. You use this setting when you want to create a private network, for example, within a corporation where you want to share word files, spreadsheets, form letters and other files that companies and work groups need to share.
Here you can specify particular IP addresses and ranges (subnets)
to allow or prevent. If you put any subnets in the Allow set, ONLY
those IP addresses and subnets will be allowed to communicate with
your ES5. If you put subnets in the Prevent set, those addresses will
be denied traffic to your ES5. Note: ES5 home page, forums, ads and
other ES5 specific sites will not be blocked. There is a limit of 100
addresses in each category (Allow or Prevent) so this is cannot be
used as a Peer Guardian substitute.
If you are using ES5 in a private network setting, put your
corporate subnets in the Allow set. Also check the Enable Private
Network.
ES5 works pretty well behind restrictive firewalls, like NAT (Network Address Translation) and IP Masquerading (sharing a single Internet address among several computer) however, if you block inbound connections to ES5 you will be denying yourself a lot of files. This is because, two ES5 planets that are both behind firewalls, cannot share files with each other. As long as one of the Planets is not behind a firewall, files can be shared freely between Planets. This is not an ES5 limit. ALL P2P programs share this limitation!
These are various settings that effect how your Searches are performed.
You can tell ES5 to not allow certain files to be displayed. These filter settings can be programmed by using the Advanced Settings controls, but you turn them on and off here. If you explicitly search for a filtered word, ES5 will ignore the fact that you have it filtered. It figures, "I guess this person really wants to find this item despite the filter setting".
After sending out search requests, ES5 gives up after it has not received any finds after this many seconds.
If you attempt to download a file, but that Planet is too busy, or has been turned off by its owner, this setting will remove all other finds from that planet so that you do not waste time on a clutter of useless searches. This "Dead Planet" will even persist in subsequent searches. However, this list is not saved between times you exit and enter ES5.
This clears out all the Bad Planets in the list talked about above.
This is the URL that gets called when your search specifies "The Internet". By default, it searches Google. If you understand how URLS work, you can modify this to search your own favorite search engine. Use the special variable $(USERWORDS) in the URL which will be replaced with the words you specify in the Search.
This is the URL that gets called when your search specifies "Usenet, News Groups, Discussions". By default, it searches Google's Usenet Archive. If you understand how URLS work, you can modify this to search your own favorite search engine. Use the special variable $(USERWORDS) in the URL which will be replaced with the words you specify in the Search.
This is the directory/folder that will contain your media files and is where your downloads initially go.
On some systems you can make your My Resources directory hidden to hide it from prying eyes. This will only hide the directory from a casual inspection.
If this is set, your files will automatically be added to the files you share to other ES5 users.
If this is set, ES5 will try and find folders you possibly shared with other P2P programs, and will include those in your Shared files.
Many of the files you download are full of garbage in their names. These settings adjust how you might like these files automatically cleaned up when you use the "Clean Name" from the My Resources list.
If this is set, you will be reminded to do a Virus check if you attempt to access/execute a file that has potential executable content that could do something you might not like to your computer.
ES5 allows you to choose directories/folders to share with other
ES5 users.
You can choose directories/folders to share from the Shared Files
Settings selector (Tree Control), or you can simply manually enter the
directories/folders you want to share in the Sharing List.
In addition to sharing files and directories, ES5 lets you have
your own web site! A web site is simply files that are connected with
HTML links. Your web site information is searchable just like your
shared files are, so, you can set up a personal web site about your
hobbies, interests or business and people will find it when they
search ES5!
When ES5 loads, it "Indexes" your web site. What this means
is, it goes through all your Web Site files, finds keywords or
information, and sends that information to your Sun. This makes it
possible for people to find your Web Site when they Search
ES5. Personal Web Sites are included automatically when someone
searches ES5 so you don't have to be listed in Google to get attention
to your own Personal Web Site.
Web sites are nicer than just sharing files because you can organize
your files with HTML pages.
This is the folder/directory that will be the root (top page, home page) of your web site. You should create an HTML file called index.html and put it here. All directories/folders beneath this directory are also part of your web site and can be accessed by other ES5 users.
If you want to restrict access to your Personal Web Site, you can require a password. You can have as many passwords as you like.
If you want to, you can have ES5 automatically create your index.html file. All it will do is create a web page that has a list of the files and directories/folders with your Web Root Directory.
Normally, when ES5 loads it will go through your web site, find all the html files and upload their information to your Star so that other users can find your web site by Searching. If you check this box, ES5 will include all types of files including images, sounds etc.
When you have a Personal Web Site, ES5 goes through each file contents and finds the key words that others can use to find that web page. It only does this to files ending in .html unless you check this box, in which case it will try to find key words in all kinds of files including images, sound or whatever. This is sometimes not possible, but it tries anyway. The difference between this setting, and the "Include Non-Html" setting is that THIS setting actually searches the contents of the file for keywords. "Include Non-Html" only includes the Non-Html files names. You must enable "Include Non-Html" in order for "Index Non-Html" to work.
This is the maximum amount of each file that you want ES5 to try and index (find key words). This limit is here to prevent absurdities like searching a 100 megabyte movie file for keywords which would take a long time and result in virtually no keywords of any value. Entering a 0 here means No Limit. We do not recommend that setting if you have any files over 200k or so in your web site.
This is the maximum depth of directories/folders from the Web Server Root that ES5 will include in its indexing.
This is the maximum number of files that ES5 will Index.
If you want your ES5 Web Server to be a simple web server, and not send out information about its contents, set the Max Files to 1.
In addition to Group Chat (another section) ES5 lets integrates
Microsoft Netmeeting. You can use Netmeeting to make free internet
phone calls, video calls and many more data sharing activities with
friends and family.
If netmeeting is enabled you might have to change the
directory of the netmeeting executable if it is installed somewhere
special on your machine.
Fill out information about yourself so that other ES5 members interested in dating can search for you based upon your likes, preferences and person information.
If you want to let people see what you look like, enter the name of a file that contains your picture here (a gif or jpeg). ES5 encourages all life forms to display their personal pictures on ES5.
ES5 Stealth Mode will enable you to download AND upload files
without anyone knowing your ip address. You have to enter a list of
proxy servers in the spaces provided. Lists of proxy servers are
available from many web sites listed in another section of this help.
Here is where you enter lists of proxy servers that ES5 uses to do
proxy downloads/uploads. When ES5 does a proxy operation, it will
choose randomly from the appropriate list. If a proxy fails to
respond, ES5 will discard the proxy permanently. You can put a + after
the proxy ip address to make ES5 NOT delete the proxy. You might use
this if you know the proxy is good and should never be deleted, like,
you subscribe to a proxy service.
You do not have to have perfectly clean ip addresses or DNS names
in here. ES5 will try to interpret the beginning of each line you drop
in for items separated by dots spaces and colons (.:). Once it finds a
valid ip address/DNS name on a line it ignores the rest of the line so
you can add comments after your proxies if you want to or drop in all
sorts of garbage and ES5 will do a pretty good job of figuring it
out. We want to make it easy for you to cut and paste proxies from
lists.
ES5 does not provide the actual proxies. The proxies are all
just out there on the Internet for various reasons. The lists of
proxies on our Forums are put there by users or ES5 testers
contributing what they have harvested from the Internet.
On the main page ES5 will tell you your Stealth Status. If you
are not using proxies it will say "Stealth No". If Stealth is running
fine you will see "Stealth Yes". If you run out of proxies (ES5
deletes proxies that stop answering) ES5 will say "Stealth Off" which
means you have to feed it more proxies. If you see "Stealth SSL" it
means you are sharing by SSL proxies only.
Put SSL proxies here. Similar rules apply as in normal proxies.
If this is checked, ES5 will only use proxies to send files to people requesting them. This is how you can have totally secure file sharing. Technically, this means people cannot pull from you, they can request a push (which travels to you in a round-about way, obscuring your ip address) and you respond by pushing the file through a proxy to them. All they see is the proxy address, even if they are using special tools to "sniff" the packets.
This makes ES5 use only SSL proxies. It is for the extremely paranoid. This encrypts the contents of your transaction as well as sending it through a proxy.
This is the number of seconds it takes to connect to a proxy, after which ES5 will consider the proxy bad, throw it away and try another. Using proxies has always been possible in Internet programs but has always been a hassle because proxies go bad after people start using them. They get overloaded. With ES5, you just drop in a list of a hundred proxies or so and ES5 does all the work for you in sorting out the good from the bad.
This is the minimum speed that ES5 will accept for a proxy to be considered good. It only is applied to uploads (you sending a file). If a proxy download is going slower than this, ES5 will delete the proxy from the proxy list and never use it again, however, the current transaction is NOT stopped. It is to the initiator (the downloader) to stop and restart if he is not happy with the speed he is getting.
This section enables you to find resources (files, people, web pages, news articles) on The Internet. Under Locate Galactic Resources enter some words regarding the resource you are searching for, example:
beegees andy gibb
You can use a minus sign to mean "don't find things with this"
van halen -roth
Would find Van Halen songs, videos or web pages, but only those
that did not contain roth (David Lee Roth)
ES5 takes each separate word in your search choice and looks
for files or resources that contain every one of the words you are
looking for.
You can select by other criteria such as size and date, which
should be self explanatory, with a few clarifications. The dates only
apply if you put a check in the date selection boxes.
Internally, certain well know file information is kept in
coded format, but all word information called "Metadata (data about
data)" is stored as one long sentence. This includes all information
such as author, album, folder, like this:
Artist: Cat Stevens
Album: Tea for the Tillerman
Title: Father And Son
Bitrate: 128768
Genre: 70s
If you want to search for specifics, you simply search for
the section of that sentence, like:
Artist:_Cat_Stevens (put underscores to represent
spaces)
or Album:_Tea_for
ALL ES5 serches are case-insensitive so upper and lower case
do not matter.
The Language, if set, will exclude searching ES5 computers
that are set to a different language.
ES5 stops searching once it receives enough items to fit on
the screen. It can receive more of course, it just stops asking after
the screen is full. If you hit Explore again, ES5 will search a
different set of Planets so you are not limited in finding what you
want. This philosophy is designed to save bandwidth and provide
better, faster service by not wasting bandwidth finding more files
than you can digest at once.
Once hits arrive, you can perform various actions on them by
right clicking and getting a menu of choices. Or, you can simply
perform the default action by double clicking.
Download (pull) Download the file by doing an HTTP request
to the other Planet. If this method doesn't work (the other Planet
might be behind a Firewall shield) try ...
Download SSL Download the file by doing an SSL HTTP
request to the other Planet. If this method doesn't work (the other
Planet might be behind a Firewall shield) try ...
Download (push) Download the file by requesting the
other Planet to push the file to you.
Download Download the file by requesting the
other Planet to push the file to you.
Plain pull and push are the fastest methods. Push means, the
other side is initiating the connection, like, telling your friend to
call you instead of you calling him. The only reason this is necessary
is firewalls are often set up to blocking INCOMING connections, but
not outgoing connections, so, someone behind a firewall that is
actually blocking ES5 can only call out.
Download SSL (push) Download the file by requesting the
other Planet to push the file to you with an SSL (secure) connection.
Download SSL Download the file by requesting the file
by SSL (secure) connection.
SSL connections are slower than plain connections, but only by
a bit, probably not even enough to notice.
Download Using Proxy Download the file by HTTP request
via one of the proxies configured under Advanced Settings.
Download Proxy Secure Download the file by HTTPS
request via one of the proxies configured under Advanced Settings
under SSL Proxies.
Proxy connections can be much slower, however it all depends
on how busy the proxy is. If it is not busy, the slowness might not
even be noticeable and might even be a bit faster because a proxy will
"buffer" your data, evening out any stops and slowdowns you might
have.
This section lets you see what is occurring on your ES5.
TYPE of activity is the type of ES5 "agent" is
handling this activity. Some of this is complicated, but you don't
have to understand it to use ES5.
An important definition. A Pull is where you connect to
someone and request a file. a Push is where you send a UDP request to
the other person and request that he connect and send the file to
you. The distinction is important because firewalls often prevent
connections so a connection must often be started in a way that is not
blocked by a firewall.
HTTP SERVICE is a file sharing agent. If someone does a pull
request from your planet, this is the service that answers the call.
HTTP GET is a download in progress where you are pulling a
file from someone else.
HTTP GET SERVE is someone else downloading from you.
HTTP PUT this is you pushing (sending) a file to another
person.
HTTP PUT SERVE this is you receiving a file push from someone
else.
HTTP SERVICE this is the agent that accepts pull requests and
hands them off to an HTTP SERVER which does the HTTP GET SERVE or HTTP PUT
Note, each of the above items have an HTTPS version
also, like HTTPS GET. The HTTPS versions all use SSL (Secure Socket
Layer) to encrypt the transfer so that no one can eavesdrop on that
transfer.
There are also WEB SERVICE, WEB SECURE SERVICE, WEB SERVER
and WEB SECURE SERVER are similar to HTTP services/servers but
they apply to the built in Web Server if you choose to use it. The Web
Server has no Push. It only talks to Web Browsers which use standard
HTTP which has no push.
SEARCH CLIENT when you do a search, a SEARCH CLIENT is what
does it.
SEARCH SERVICE this is the agent that is actually the
core of ES5. It handles all sorts of traffic including push requests,
search requests, file information. It also holds the database of files
if you are acting as a Star.
RE-SEARCH if a file fails to download completely, the
RE-SEARCH is in charge of trying to locate the other pieces of the
file to complete it. It re-searches the ES5 network for other sources
of the file in hopes of completing it.
Description is there to explain what is going on.
Progress tells you how far along the transaction is, with a percentage if applicable. If you hold the mouse cursor over the green bar, you will see the actual numbers involved.
Velocity is how fast the data is being transferred.
Arrival is the Estimated time this download/upload will finish.
Planet is the source or destination of the transfer, where applicable.
Some types of activity don't have certain values because it doesn't apply. For example a RE-CHECK doesn't have any velocity.
This section lets you play with your your files and resources.
ES5 puts all the files you download into one specific
directory/folder. If you want to change the default which is "New
Media Files" you can do so in the "My Files Settings" part of the
Settings Dialog.
ES5 has some features that let you arrange and organize your
files.
The ES5 My Files repository is derived from the Windows Shell
Windows so you have access to all the functionality you normally have
in the shell such as unzipping a file, emailing a file to someone
else, virus checking a file etc. In addition, ES5 adds some badly
needed functions to help in p2p operations.
If you right click on an item in the Activity List you can perform
certain actions:
Cancel will shutdown the item. Don't use it on anything
that is a SERVICE or that SERVICE will be put out of commission. You
can use it to abort downloads you don't really want, or uploads you
don't want to serve. If used on a RE-SEARCH it will cancel ES5
attempting to find more of that file and delete all fragments of the
file.
Refresh redraws the entire list. Normally this is done
every 5 seconds but you might want to see it immediately.
Slow Down will put a speed limit on the transfer equal
to 50% of the current speed. You can keep doing Slow Down and each
time, the velocity will be cut by 50% of the current velocity.
Pause will stop the transfer. Actually it sets the
speed to 1 byte per second just to keep the connection alive but
effectively stopped.
Resume will undo any Slow Downs or Pauses, allowing the
transfer to resume its maximum possible speed. If used on a RE-SEARCH,
it will make the RE-SEARCH immediately attempt to find more parts of
the file, instead of waiting for the normal 5 minute pause.
Preview will attempt to view the partially downloaded
file. Not all viewers (Windows Media Player, Real Player, Winamp etc)
like to share access to a file so this will fail on some types of
media, particularly AVI files. ES5 is quite willing to share access,
but some programs are more snooty.
Public Message Board
Latest news from around the world.
Audio/Video chat.
Search and find other compatible ES5 users.
Here is where you set various options to tailor ES5 to fit your liking.
You can increase your security and anonymity by using a proxy
server to hide your ip address when you download and/or upload
files. If you want to do this try the following:
Go to proxysite.com and choose a proxy computer in the
country of your choice. There are anonymous proxies, and transparent
proxies, and you want to choose an anonymous proxy that totally masks
your IP from the website (i.e. computer) which you connect to.
The ES5 Forum Firewalls, Router, Proxies and Security
continually list available, fresh proxies. You can go there and
cut-and-paste a section (100 or so) of the proxies into each of your
proxy lists. Try to select random sections so that the load on the
proxies get distributed evenly and randomly.
Proxy Lists Updated Daily
Here are some other sites which continually search for, and
provide lists of proxies you can then use.
Proxy Matrix
AtomInterSoft
MultiProxy
RosInstruments
Narod
ProxyBench
Anzwers
Samair
The proxies on the first page are all free. You can choose any
of them, if you want more detail, such as how BUSY the proxies are
(which will influence your download speed) you can click on stats.
after choosing one or more proxies, into Advanced Settings and
enter them, including port number, in the Proxies box. Make sure you
use the ipaddress:port syntax, like this: 207.112.35.15:2341. ES5 is
pretty tolerant of formats, even this will work 123.12.224.16 78 (with
a space between the address and port)
ES5 will randomly pick the proxies from your list, each time
it downloads or uploads.
If you want to share through proxies ONLY, make sure you check
Use Proxies for Sharing. This way, people downloading from you, will
not know your ip address.
If you are really paranoid, you can even require SSL when
sharing through proxies by checking SSL Only.
There are a lot of nosy people that think they have a right to know
what is on your computer. Parents, kids, governments, spies, hackers
and corporations seem to think they have a Manifest Destiny to poke
into your affairs. We think if they want to poke into your affairs,
they can take their own precious time to spy on you. The information
you keep about yourself is yours, and yours alone if you use
encryption.
If you want to keep your EarthStation 5 activities totally
private, you can store your files on an Encrypted Disk. This will
guarantee that people like your kids, wife, husband, your boss, your
sister, your brother, computer repair guy, Mothers Against
Pornography, Recording Industry Copyright Nazis, the Church of
Scientology, the Mossad, Al Qaeda, the KGB, the FBI or anyone else
cannot ever see what is on your disk without your permission. You do
this with PGPDISK, a program that makes encrypted disks within your
computer's hard disk. (We cannot guarantee that they could not beat
your password out of you with a rubber hose however).
The benefits of using an encrypted disk, instead of merely
encrypting your files are:
1) No UNENCRYPTED data ever goes onto your disk that might
later be recovered with disk utilities
2) All your normal programs will work with the encrypted disk
after you enter the password, but with a flick of your power button,
the data is irretrievable to anyone except you.
Go to http://www.pgpi.org and download PGP (PGP stands for "Pretty
Good Privacy").
Install it.
After you reboot, find PGPdisk by selecting Start Menu,
Programs, PGP, PGPdisk and create a New PGPdisk.
Follow the instructions to create a NEW Encrypted PGP
disk. This will be a disk drive letter like E: G: or W: You will also
have to decide how large this encrypted disk will be.
When you initially create the encrypted disk, PGP will mount
it for you. Mount means to make it available for use.
Load ES5, go into My File Settings and turn on Load Pgp Disk
Q: What file extensions are searched for under each search
category?
A: You asked for it!
Zip, Tar, Archives = bin, cab, iso, jar, rar, rpm, sfv, shar,
sit, tar, tardist, z, zip, ztardist
Audio, Music, Songs = aa, aac, abs, aif, aif, aifc, aiff,
aifm, ape, au, es, icon, jmx, kar, lqt, m3u, mid, midi, mp2a, mp2,
mp3, mp3url, mpa2, mpa, mpega, mpga, ogg, ra, ram, rmf, rmi, sid, snd,
snd, tsi, voc, vox, vqe, vqf, wav, wma, wm, wtx
Data Files = aab, aam, aas, a, adl, ai, ano, asd, asn, aut,
bcpio, bde, bub, cco, cdf, cdf, chat, class, coda, con, cpio, dcr,
dcr, dcr, dir, dump, dvi, dxr, eps, evy, faxmgr, faxmgrjob, fgd, fm,
frame, frm, gtar, hdf, hqx, ica, imd, ins, insight, inst, ips, ipx,
iv, latex, lcc, lic, mail, maker, man, map, mbd, me, mif, mml, mpire,
mpl, ms, nc, nsc, nvu, obj, oda, oda, o, ofw, pac, pdb, pfr, pkg,
pkgx, pot, pps, ppt, ppz, puz, roff, rrf, rtf, sca, sc, scm, sgf,
sgi-lpr, sho, showcase, show, skd, skm, skm, skp, skt, slides, spl,
spl, spr, sprite, src, stk, sv4cpio, sv4crc, tbk, tbt, tcl, t, texi,
tsp, ustar, vbd, vmd, vmf, vrml, web, wid, wkz, wmlc, wmlsc, wrk, wrl,
wsrc, wtk, xar, xls
Images, Pictures = bmp, dwg, fh4, fh5, fh7, fhc, fh, fif, gif,
ief, jfif, jpeg, jpe, jpg, mcf, pbm, pgm, png, pnm, ppm, ras, rgb,
svh, tiff, tif, wbmp, wi, xbm, xpm, xwd
Software, Programs = bat, cgi, com, csh, exe, java, js, pl,
prc, sh, swf
Text, Books, Personal Web Sites = cpp, css, c, doc, dtd, etx,
hdml, h, html, htm, mime, pdf, pgr, ps, rtx, sgml, sgm, shtml, spc,
texinfo, tex, tr, tsv, txt, vcf, vef, wmls, wml, xml
Video, Movies = asf, avi, fli, m15, m1v, m75, movie, mov,
mpeg, mpegv, mpe, mpg, mps2, mps, mpv2, mp+, mpv, mv, qt, rm, vbs,
vdo, vgm, vgp, vivo, viv, vx, wmv, xpg
Q: Preview cannot view certain files and gives errors. Why?
A: DIVX files cannot be viewed if incomplete unless they are
fixed. We are working on including that fix within ES5. Some players
are capable of playing incomplete DIVX. AVIPreview, the player you can
download free here
can do it. It does not have a setup program so you have to do a little
setup yourself.
1) Download the file and put AVIPreview.exe somewhere.
3) Using the Windows desktop/exploer locate a DIVX file and
right click on it.
4) Select open with
5) Choose Program
6) Select Other
7) Enter the full path to AVIPreview.exe, like,
c:\utilities\AVIPreview.exe
8) Check "Always use this program to open files".
9) OK
Now when you try to preview DIVX files, you will succeed.
Q: Previewing takes a long time, why?
A: To preview a file ES5 has to make a separate copy for
you. If you are previewing a 200 megabyte movie for example, making
that copy can take awhile. We suggest previewing something before it
gets too large so you can see if you really want it or not.
Q: I cannot play certain files. I get error such as "Cannot
decode this stream", or "missing codec".
A: Different media files have different formats. Codecs are
"coder-decoders" that allow media players such as the Windows Media
Player to view different formats. You can get codecs at these
following website:
MovieCodec.Com
Q: Why does the download speed sometimes display 0?
A: When ES5 is displaying download/upload speed, it only
counts the last 10 seconds of traffic. Downloads are often paused for
10 seconds or more due to traffic congestion anywhere on the Net.
Q: How can I preview something and make sure I like it before I
waste time downloading?
A: While a file is being downloaded you can see it. Go to the
Activity window, right click and select preview. Most files will allow
viewing even if partially downloaded however DVX files cannot be viewed
unless you use a program that "fixes" them up first. There is once
called AVIpreview. This is covered in a previous question above.