Before reading on, be sure to read our short tutorial on What Tor is. Clicky
So you've decided that you want to use Tor with Polipo in Internet Explorer (IE). In this short, beginner's tutorial we'll show you how to do so. For this tutorial we'll demonstrate in IE8, however it is the same in all versions.
First things first, you'll need:
Once you've got everything installed, run the "Vidalia" program. It's already setup to load Polipo by default once it connects. You'll see the icon in your system tray first turn Yellow as it's connecting, and finally Green once it's actually connected to the Tor network, as shown below:
A few quick things to note:
1. To disable Tor in IE, just uncheck the checkbox in "Proxy server" in IE again, so that it's not using a proxy server.
3. To disconnect from the Tor network, just right click the Tor icon in the system tray, and choose "Stop Tor" or "Exit".
4. You may not be able to get to some websites. Tor has alot of people using it's anonymity to abuse websites. In return, some websites block Tor users, or any user who is on a proxy. when this happens, a page may just seem to hang forever, or you may get some sort of notice or error message.
5. Tor has plenty of configuration options that you can play with and tweak. We have shown you the basics on simply how to get up and running on Tor. Feel free to play around with the settings!
6. You may want to try using Tor with Privoxy (or other ways) as well! Be sure to either click the links below, or search/surf GeekDrop for our tutorials for beginners on how to do so!
And that's it!, Happy anonymous surfing!
I haven't used TOR in some time but when you use it you don't get to pick a European proxy. There are European proxy sites - heres one
Oh COOL!!!! thanks SM, my mom will be thrilled. I'll let you know how it works later !
Does this take up a lot of memory on a laptop? and would this be something I could use to watch TV shows from Europe??
It can take up a decent chunk of memory, but that's not the real factor regarding watching tv shows. Tor itself is usually so painfully slow it would never play the video smoothly enough to be able to enjoy it.
Thank you.
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Does this take up a lot of memory on a laptop? and would this be something I could use to watch TV shows from Europe??