I’m one of those maniacs who hates the Office 2007+ / Windows 8 “ribbon” interface on programs.
I consider that on a wide screen using an interface where up to a third of the height is filled up with useless huge buttons is just stupid.
Thankfully, FoxIt Reader (still) offers the option to return to the old non-“ribbon” toolbar mode…
This error affects all Source engine based games, including Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 1 & 2, Team Fortress 2.
In my case the issue was caused by using LapLink PCMover to transfer stuff from a 32bit (older) Windows PC to a 64bit one. This broke part of WMI, triggering some rather weird errors later down the road.
A VPN connection is still mostly regarded as “business solution”, only useful to connecting employees to the company network. But this is no longer true nowadays.
VPNs can be very useful in protecting the integrity and security of data transfers, no matter who the two communicating parties are. To learn how to set up a connection and connect to a VPN server…
Since Vista, Microsoft implemented a more serious protection system concerning core operating system files.
Because of this, replacing, editing, deleting or making any changes to protected files is a tedious task, requiring the additional step of obtaining the appropriate rights and permissions on the files first.
At random times, especially after a long computer uptime (over 2 weeks), all windows animations and especially any Flash-based video player would become sluggish and render at about 10-15FPS.
This happens independent of where using the computer or letting it idle while it is running. The solution…
Apparently there’s a hidden way of cleanly restarting Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) in Windows (ever since Xp) without killing it via Task Manager.
This can be quite useful in case of weird bugs or when one simply needs a way to restart the explorer.exe process in a non-intrusive way. To do this…
Email messages are at the moment the least secure method of transferring information. They are almost always written in plain-text, jumping around from server to server with anyone interested in eavesdropping on them able to do so.
To use an end-to-end PGP encryption with Thunderbird, you’ll need to install Enigmail (Thunderbird extension) and GnuPG…
A long time ago I found a nice little application handy at displaying Windows’ uptime. It’s been running fine since Windows XP all the way to the (disastrous) 8.
Simply download and extract the uptime.exe executable to your Windows, System32 or SysWOW64 folder…
So you’ve installed Windows Xp on a (probably very) old computer and forgot to check the BIOS to make sure APCI is enabled…
Now to switch Windows Xp from the “Standard PC” HAL to the A(dvanced) C(onfiguration and) P(ower) I(nterface) one you’ve got two choices…
If you’re using Avira’s Free antivirus and are a mad computer user like me that never reboots his computer (unless something blows up), you might have noticed that Avira periodically updates its program (beside the virus definitions) and asks for a system restart to complete this.
To configure the size of the hibernation file, use the PowerCfg command-line utility that is included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You must run PowerCfg from an elevated command prompt and include the /HIBERNATE and /SIZE parameters, as follows:
Upon entering Computer Manager to remove the drive letters, the partitions do not have any letters assigned. In fact, no actions beside “Delete partitions” are present on the context menu. But the partitions show up in Windows Explorer as drives H: and K.
Luckily MOUNTVOL, a Windows utility (present in all Windowses since Xp) “creates, deletes, or lists a volume mount point”.
