How to force any program to use SOCKS?

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I'm going to take a chance, let me know how it goes

I have heard of these programs mentioned, but haven't tried them

"If the Internet program you are using does not have a socks proxy option you can use Sockscap to make it support socks proxy. Here is a tutorial showing how to use Sockscap." http://www.socksproxychecker.com/sockscap.html

and you may be interested in trying this one "Sockschain is a program that allows to work with any Internet service through a chain of SOCKS or HTTP proxies.." http://ufasoft.com/socks/

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Score 1

Assuming that you probably already have a Proxy Server in mind that you'd like to use, you can configure this for all applications in your OS through the Control Panel...

Open "Control Panel"
Double-click on the "Internet options" icon
Activate the "Connections" tab
Click on the "LAN settings" button below the "Local Area Network (LAN) settings" heading
Enter your Proxy Server's address below the "Proxy server settings" heading

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