Everybody wants a shortcut for PS Sleep to save time on clicks. Instead of 3 clicks Start - Shutdown - Sleep every time, let's have just one click - Sleep. There is a way to do that. Please tell me, if this also works in Windows XP.
Everybody wants a shortcut for PS Sleep to save time on clicks. Instead of 3 clicks Start - Shutdown - Sleep every time, let's have just one click - Sleep. There is a way to do that. Please tell me, if this also works in Windows XP.
After several days of heavy exhausting battles and sleepless nights, after testing dozens of options, after browsing many proposed Internet solutions, I finally was able to move an old instance of Windows XP on a new machine with new RAID drivers. That happened at 13:23 on December 12, 2010. I moved Win XP from old RAID machine to a new RAID machine. O boy! I found a clear and clean way to do this task. I will also use the same technique to move any Microsoft operating system from a Single drive to a RAID machine. And this also works great, if you simply switching your PC controller from IDE to…
Summary First of all – it is not a virus! It is not a bug either. It is a feature, that doesn’t allow legacy applications to write files inside Program Files directory. This feature allows legacy applications think that they are writing to a system folders. Symptoms You can see your custom files inside one of the Program Files directory folder through your application. You can open them and view them and modify them.. However, if you open the same directory in Windows Explorer, your files are not there. You can’t see them, even if your a super administrator of all administrators. What is the Mystery? You can see your custom…
If only you could control names of directories, where Microsoft installs Windows, Data and Program Files. If you could, you would be able to install multiple instances of operating system on the same drive. So. let’s do it anyway. To do that you need two parallel installs of you favorite operating system on the same computer. For now it has to be on 2 different drives. You need this so you can manipulate locked files and directories of one install, while booting into the other one. Disclaimer This article applies to any Microsoft operating system, and uses the most complicated Windows 7 64-bit as an example. This method was also tested…
Problem: You have an old discarded instances of failed Windows 7 installs. You can rename the directories, but they still clutter your hard drive, and they are very hard to get rid of. I simply can’t take this painful and slow process of deleting huge system directories under Windows 7. Remember this endless stream of errors, and warnings, and skips. The same task in Win XP only takes a few seconds. But under Windows 7, it is a project of its own. Pain. Finally, my patience ran out. I decided to write a script. And it it worked! Delete Windows System Directories Here is a fantastic way to delete huge Windows 7…
It is the the LITTLE problems that annoys the most! I love Windows, but why Windows is so awkward in same strange and unexpected ways? This article is about one of such problems – Image viewing and rotation. Why it is so hard? Do not even think to joke here. There is a very simple and very useful little program – Windows Photo Viewer. It is great to open one photo at a time and quickly navigate through a pile of them. It also allows to rotate and magnify the images. But it has a strange peculiar set of problems: - On Windows 7 x64 it sometimes can’t rotate images located in certain folders…
Welcome! This is not a typical article for reading. This is a log of important events in site development and growth. 2013 – Jan 28 MON DWC upgrades today! After month of testing and fixes, we are finally live on the latest versions of everything. Starting with (1) WP 3.5.1 and (2) Magazine Basic 2.7.9. All the plugins are tested and up to date now. The main upgrade was (3) converting of bbPress from a standalone application to a bbPress 2.2.4 WP plugin. Plus most of the customizations and styles are now moved to a (4) child theme. Results: site seems slower to respond now? Has it something to do…
I started getting this error 2155348315 in Windows 7 Backup, when I switched from wired to a Wi-Fi connection on my desktop PC. Here is what happened...
Problem You need to search and replace large registry databases with a set of new values. You have a third-party utility to do the job, but this utility can only update values writable by administrator. Thousands of registry keys are owned by NT Service\TrustedInstaller and protected even for Administrators. What to do? If you simply use REGEDIT to take ownership and add full rights to Administrator to all registry at once, you will definitely achieve the goal, but you will ruin the intricate security permissions for dozens of system service accounts that populate registry security. Windows will run but many features like Windows Update will become broken. Solution The plan of…
Several years I had this problem in one particular instance of Windows XP Professional – an extremely slow shutdown upon clicking on Shutdown button. For several minutes system would completely freeze, and then Shutdown/Restart dialog box would finally come up. What did I know about the problem. It was extremely annoying. It was persistent. And it was happening only on one instance of XP, so that excluded the possibility of a faulty hardware. It was so bad, that I came up with a workaround. I would open up a Task Manager and end one after another svchost.exe processes running under SYSTEM name. A counter and warning would appear saying that your…
First – The Problem I can’t get my hands around this problem with WordPress (3.0.1) on Windows 2008 Server. I need to solve this, because it keeps me from registering with Google AdSense. They are saying that “Site Navigation is Broken”. And this is only a problem on Windows 2008 Server and IIS 7. The exact same site with exact same data works properly on Win XP and IIS 5.1. If I select posts by category (or by month), pagination links at the bottom of the page do not have category loaded in their HREF(s). So, if user tries to go to next pages, he gets to page 2, or 3, or 4…