Question by ???????: How can I stop Windows Explorer form running in task manager without messing up my system?
I disable it in msconfig boot options and I messed up my system. I want to run fire fox only.
I am running Vista Business, it’s a mega hogger of my net book.

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Answer by Sandy G
Windows Explorer _is_ Windows, it should not appear in Msconfig’s Startup tab. Actually nothing in the Startup tab is required for your system to run. Leave Explorer.exe alone in Task Manager.

Internet Explorer and FireFox are browsers. Start whichever you prefer manually.

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Starting and finishing at North Cape in Norway, he became the first man to travel the Arctic Circle without motorized transport, completing a 20,000km journey through Greenland, Canada, Alaska, the Bering Strait and Russia’s Siberia, pulling a kevlar sledge piled with 180kg of equipment and food.

Prior to this Mike had an outstanding pedigree in extreme expeditions. Including Amazon Expedition, a solo, un-motorized traverse of the South American continent taking 6 months and Latitude Zero, the circumvolution of the world around the equator. Taking 18 months Mike Horn sailed, paddled, canoed and cycled around the world.

Valuable lessons from one of worlds greatest explorers

Before attempting the solo circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle expedition in 2004, Mike Horn did 2 things which I think we can learn alot from. Both in the sense that he was humble enough to do them and also how we can apply them to our own expedition projects.

The arctic was a completely foreign landscape to him and he recognized that he didn’t have a hope of being successful there without serving some kind of apprenticeship and learning from the best.

The first thing he did was to get himself invited on an expedition to Greenland with two Swiss explorer JeanTroillet and Erhard Loretan (3rd man to climb all the 8000m peaks without oxygen). This gave Mike the opportunity to be mentored by two of the world’s greatest Himalayan mountaineering experts.

On this Greenland expedition he basically worked as a packhorse but it gave him the opportunity to watch, listen, learn and soak up as much knowledge and information as possible. The most valuable and life saving lesson was the art of PATIENCE.

In conditions of extreme cold knowing when to stay in the tent and not to push on can be the difference between life and death. A naturally impatient and impulsive man it was a difficult lesson to learn. But vital as in arctic whiteout conditions many explorers have become lost and frozen to death just 2m from their tents

Mike Horn posses two of the most important characteristics of an extreme expedition explorer. These being a rock solid, steady temperament and an enormous capacity for physical endurance. But on returning from the Greenland Expedition he wondered if these were enough to fulfil his dreams of a solo circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle.

With this in mind he sought the advice and guidance of Borge Ousland, the first man to reach the North Pole solo as well as the first to cross Antarctica solo. Mike visited Norway to apprentice with him. To learn everything he could about this famous explorer, his way of life, his personality, the way he worked, his attitudes, and daily routines.

Mike didn’t know and had never met Borge however he was welcomed into his home and and over a number of days shared his polar knowledge and experience.

These examples of serving apprenticeships with expedition experts and learning everything we can from them are valuable and give us an insight into the character of Mike Horn and demonstrate why he went on to become one of the world’s most famous expedition explorers.

Mike has written an account of his solo circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle expedition called conquering the impossible

He is currently leading a fantastic ocean expedition for young explorers. For more information please visit Pangaea

Credits for the images in this article about extreme adventure expeditions and the lessons that famous explorers can teach us belong to Mike Horn

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Are they right?

I have a feeling that they are missing the point. Chris Walker recently explored this point in a guest post on this web site. He highlighted that extreme is a relative term and is dependant upon our personal comfort zones.

For one individual an extreme adventure is set at one level and for another perhaps more experienced, that level is considerably higher. Rather like our tolerance levels to alcohol.

The more often we are in a particular situation, the more used to the particular demands it places upon our body and mind the less extreme it feels.

A couple of years ago I was walking in the Austrian Alps with a German girlfriend of mine during the late summer. It was more “scrambling” and at times the situation was pretty exposed and perhaps we should have been roped up. However my point is that on the first day I was really scared, really feeling the exposure. After a week of walking and in fact progressing to far more extreme situations than on that first day my tolerance level had risen to the extent that I didn’t feel scared at all.

If you had asked me on day one “was it extreme?” I would definitely have said yes. Ask me at the end of the week or now and I would say NO.

Extreme adventures and our comfort zone

We learn that extreme adventures are relative and personal. As we move outside our personal comfort zone our experience feels extreme. Perhaps this is our body and minds way of coping, of making sure we are on full alert and giving our all.

To my mind the motorcycle forum is being judgemental about someone else’s dreams and goals. A position that I feel uncomfortable with. Reaching out for your goals is hard and we are inevitably exposing ourselves to failure. Surely it’s better to encourage and support each individual in their “relative” pursuits of extreme adventure than to knock them and demean their efforts.

To grow as individuals and experience everything that life has to offer we must move outside our comfort zones. This is difficult, often painful and definitely scary. But do it we must.

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I think perhaps it is his complete credibility. Here is a man who has been there, lived there, seen it, done it and got the T-shirt. He is homeless and has been a perpetual traveller for 10 years and visited more than 80 countries.

HoboTraveler.com is difficult and confusing to navigate around. But I strongly recommend that you take the time to do so. Hidden within it’s 8000+ pages are some really gems. Truisms that will inspire, comments that force you to look closely at ones own belief systems and strong opinions that he is not shy to share.

If you are tempted to venture on your travel adventure and are on a tight budget there is an excellent section on how he has funded his travel over the years. It demonstrates that with a bit of hard graft and an entrepreneurial spirit following your travel dreams is very possible.

It is so tempting to wait to follow out dreams for everything to be perfect. Often we put things off because we don’t have enough money, its not the right time, I cant leave now. Excuses are so easy to find. But please follow Andy’s example and get started. Live life in the here and now. Reach out for you goals and let nothing stand in your way.

The following quotes from his Blog give a flavour of the man and his writing.

Travel Blogs aspire to be somebody, to be a something, to be more than just one person rambling about his or her vacation.

Travel is one of the most selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed things to do on the planet, we do it alone, and all the decisions are made by us.

Make a list of all the things you want to do before you kick the bucket. When someone says, get a life, this is what they mean. We negotiate our life while living on a small precipice; we look over the edge seeing all that is possible. However, still as timid souls we ask too little of ourselves, we believe in tomorrow more than today.

I stole this tip, I am copying this tip, and I am buying into this tip from a movie called, “The Bucket List.” Two men who have terminal cancer make their dream list of what they want to do before the kick the bucket. The difference between these two men and the rest of the world is they decide to be the heroes of their life.

Make a list of all the things you want to do before you kick the bucket, then start to today to find the hero of the story. Please go watch the movie “The Bucket List,” and make all the tomorrows become today, then one day at a time you can become the hero of the story.

Once you have “The Bucket List,” you will learn there are people who love you and will help you achieve your dreams, and there will be many who say this is just a movie… it is not a movie, it is the story of your life, do not lose the negotiations, your life is at stake.

To read Andy’s blog about experience travel and the adventures it brings please visit www.hobotraveler.com

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Overland Adventure Expedition – Getting started..

Spare key for the day I lose the original. Baseball bat for when I need to open a can of beans in a hurry. My kettle for when I want to spill boiling water over my hand. Three man tent for the nights I meet a hot Swedish chick and her equally hot friend.

Compass….for finding the car in the dark after a skip of pints. Medical kit filled with hangover cures, baby prevention plastic and 1 plaster, incase of an accident. The thickest sleeping bag I could find..suitable for the arctic because I hear Iran has really being effected by global warming.

No real destination, map or plan to take me there, sure ill figure it out along the way.

Overland adventure tour – Iran, Iraq and Pakistan

These lads certainly don’t lack spirit, determination and a sense of adventure..

We were all very brave men when we were telling everyone that we were going to Iraq but as we came closer and closer to the border a little bit of worry/panic started to set into us all. Nervous laughs and jokes was the order of the day.

Seje was the worst by far and to be fair he had good reason being an American and standing out of a crowd like he did didn’t help the situation. I have to admit I was worried he might attract some unwanted attention to us which could escalate into something more serious.

Due to the unstable situation in Pakistan at this time the Pakistan government required us to have an armed guard or armed police escort with us at all times and we felt it was obviously safer to have someone with us then going it alone.

What normally happened with the guards was that every 20 or 30 kilometres there would be a police check point where we would fill in our details and pick up a new guard. A truck driver didn’t get out of the way fast enough so our escort smashed his wing mirror…that some rights the gardai don’t have

The main round-about into Tehran…it was like demolition derby trying to get on and off the bloody thing. After driving in and out of Istanbul I thought I had experienced the worst driving im likely to see along my trip…..what a fool I was.

The Lonely Planet description sum’s it up perfectly: “Almost anything goes on these roads and often does. Its not unusual to see motorbikes weaving between pedestrians on the footpath in an attempt to escape the gridlock or cars reversing down the highway at speed along an expressway to reached that missed exit

The sheer volume of traffic can be overwhelming and makes crossing the street seem like a game of Russian roulette, only in this game there are few empty chambers”.

To read Liam and Luke’s funny blog about their overland adventure travelling in the unlikeliest expedition vehicle please visit rusheeneast.blogspot.com

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Cycle Touring

On a bicycle you are forced into intimate contact with your surroundings, the grass on the side of the road, the vehicles that drive past, the farmer in the field, that damn hill under your wells, the rain on your face, the smell of the wild flowers (or the broken sewerage pipe for that matter).

This interaction gives a real sense of the place, the traffic tells you what kind of things are going on in the area, tourism, logging, farming, industry etc. The constant exposure to the weather gives an astute awareness of the day to day changes, or in the case of a strong head wind, any natural feature which will give some shelter .

Hungry, thirsty and tired, a warm smile and a few words (or more often hand signals) is all it takes to find a place to pitch the tent for the night, on real ground with a newly gained sense of the place after a long day in the saddle.

Every since picking up my first National Geographic when I was maybe 3 years old, I have had a deep fascination with people and places. This has led me to far off places in search of what makes a person who they are and what connects them to that place where they call home.

Since starting cycling I have travelled extensively, always in search of real human interaction, at a level that is not based on money or business, but a more real interaction where I can attempt to gain an understanding of a person through there environment and willingness to interact with me as a westerner who is there without a car.

Certainly living somewhere is probably the best way to really gain this understanding, however takes a long time and thus in a lifetime there are only so many places we can spend an extended period of time. From my experience, cycling is as close as it is possible to come to this in a relatively short time.

To read Ben’s fantastic blog about his cycling tour through Bulgaria, China, Cambodia, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Vietnam and Laos please visit www.bikeben.com

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I hope you enjoy this sea kayaking video of Alan Brook and Kobi Sade paddling the Greenland coast over 1000 miles inside the Arctic circle – Please take a moment to comment afterwards and give your thoughts on the film does it inspire you to plan your own sea kayaking trip, exploring the wilderness of Greenland’s coast yourself ?