In previous versions of Windows with IIS installed, the installation of PHP could be difficult. Instructions were inconsistant and there were too many variables that could have gone wrong. The installation woes of IIS seem to be a thing of the past. In one rare instance, using an article, titled Installing PHP on Windows 7, that was found in a…
Read More »We all have our reasons for wanting to do this, some may be for the “right” reasons, while others are not. It can be argued that disabling the IPv6 protocol is not appropriate and that it may effect some Windows functionality. However, IPv6 has been the culprit to some recent anomalies, including on a Windows Vista build where IIS could…
Read More »When it comes to the removal of a virus, Trojan, pest, or some other malicious application, it has been my practice to isolate the problem by removing it from the equation. What is meant by that is that there are cases where the system is inoperable or where several applications have been hijacked like Task Manager, Registry Editor, and other…
Read More »There are a few good articles as to how to install PHP on a Microsoft Windows Vista 64 bit edition. One of which is titled Vista 64 – IIS 7 – PHP x64. However, once installed, you may encounter the ability to access the website via localhost or with 127.0.0.1, however, not via the IP address of the computer. After…
Read More »Using the command line to parse through the logs is an alternate method to log parser. A benefit that this would serve over log parser is that this method will also parse Apache logs. Here is an example for parsing all logs in a specific folder for a specific IP address and writing to a new file called loglist.txt.
Read More »Microsoft Outlook 2007 has enough bells and whistles to keep the application usable, however, for some reason the search feature stopped returning results. After several days of struggling with this for resolution, I finally figured out how to return results. No, there is no need for any third party application. Utilities such as the defunct Lookout, which requires a tweak…
Read More »A backup of every file in every sub-directory created zipped archives of each individual file. This was not the intended result. To resolve this each file must be restored to it’s original location and remove the created archive. Research directed me into a couple of different routes, that didn’t really work for me or produce the desired result. Here is…
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