Patrick Morein wrote:
> Ok, I installed successfully Tor, Vidalia and Privoxy on my WinXP system.
> I can use them as well.
>
> However I do not use them very often.
> When I disable Tor then only the anonymization function is disabled.
>
> It seems to me that Tor itself or Privoxy or Vidalia are still running as service 
in background.

They all are, don't worry about privoxy.

You can from a command prompt do netstat to see what tor nodes you are
connected to.
Then you do this when connecting to google.com to see if the ip
address is being resolved
remotely, to make sure privoxy is doing it's job with tor. You should
only see tor node(s).

> How can I shutdown all three programms completely and restart them later (
but only on-demand)
> if necessary ?
>
> Is this possible with one click ?
>
> Pat

I don't use Vidalia. If you care to not use it then you could remove
it from add remove programs then use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi...o
n/2275
to make firefox
browser browse with or without tor at a click. If you don't use
firefox you should.

Then you could disable tor as a service. go> start go> run go>
ipconfig go> services then
uncheck what applies.

Then run tor when wanted and just let privoxy run in the background.

You can always see whats running by doing ctrl alt delete

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