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Shut Down WSUS

cwilmire — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:45:25 +0000

You can stop the service “Update Services” from the console.

Or from cmd use “net stop wsusservice”

Twikini

cwilmire — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:36:24 +0000

Twikini is by far the best Twitter app for Pocket PC based phones. It is easy and very fast. You couldn’t ask for more features.� It is the best for viewing Twitter and posting tweets.� URL shortening and Twitpic integration are key for smartphone posts.� Snapping a picture with your phone and posting it in a tweet takes about two minutes.� Pair it with WordPress and Twitter Tools for WordPress, and photos can be added to you web page from anywhere in minutes.� Point Facebook to your Twitter account, and you can use this tool to post to Twitter, Facebook, and a WordPress site within one interface.

Best of all, it is 5 bucks to license a copy for your Smart Phone.

Outlook 2003 Out Of Office Assistant ‘command not available’

cwilmire — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:36:00 +0000

To resolve the problem…

Open Outlook.
Click on Help menu.
Click on About Microsoft Office Outlook.
Click on the Disabled Items button.

You will see a Disabled Items window open, with the following information within it:

The items below were disabled because they prevented Outlook from functioning correctly.

Please note that you may have to restart Outlook for these changes to take place.

Select the ones you wish to re-enable.

If you see “Addin: outex.dll (outex.dll)” listed, click on it to highlight it and then click on the Enable button. Then click on the Close button. Then click on the OK button to close the About Microsoft Office Outlook window.

Remembering Windows 2000

cwilmire — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:24:19 +0000

Someone brought me a Windows 2000 PC to clean up.� Usual spyware/virus problems. Some crappy program says the PC is infected.� If you buy the cleaning program, it will “remove” the infections that it created. Booted into Safe Mode. Installed Spybot and AVG 7.5. Scan and clean. Booted normally.� Updated 2000 to the most “current” updates. Ran the SP4 w. update rollup patch. bumped the AVG up to 8.5. Set everything to run nightly scans.

The PC is a P4 w. 512MB RAM and a 40GB hard drive. If you don’t over stress it, W2K runs pretty well.

It is amazing how ancient and archaic Windows 2000 feels. But you know, it is like riding a bicycle…

Recover lost password in XP

cwilmire — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:11:58 +0000

These links will help you recover the password for a local account in NT/2K/XP/Vista.

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Add an icon to your web site with favicon.ico

cwilmire — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:25:01 +0000

The custom icons that appear with websites are set using a file called favicon.ico.� It is a 16×16 or 32×32 icon file that is loaded to the root of your website.� More info here…

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537656(VS.85).aspx

http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon

Icon editing freeware here…

icofx

Disable Offline File Sync with Group Policy

cwilmire — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:11:40 +0000

You can disable offline files using Group Policy. Computer Config\Admin Templates\Network\Offline Files

Allow or disallow use of offline files feature: Disabled
Prohibit user config: Enabled
Sync all offline files when logging on: Disabled
Sync all offline files before logging off: Disabled
Sync offline files before suspend: Disabled
Remove ‘Make offline’: Enabled
Prevent use of Offline Files folder: Enabled

Microsoft: We Built UAC into Vista to Annoy Users

cwilmire — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:53:55 +0000

Confirmed…

Like Microsoft Bob and Clippy, UAC was built to annoy users,

See for yourself on CNET…

http://www.news.com/Microsoft-Vista-feature-designed-to-annoy-users/2100-1016_3-6237191.html

Cool “I Hate Vista” Banner

cwilmire — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:45:30 +0000

Javascript to redirect to a page with ‘&’ arguments

cwilmire — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:37:40 +0000

Use unescape(“%26″) to put an ampersand (&) in redirection URLs with javascript…