Category: Tips and Tricks

How to Completely Uninstall McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Edition

While in the process of cleaning off several applications from an older server, one application remained regardless of the uninstallation procedure. This application was McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i. There is a a method that worked successfully in the removal of this stubburn application. Open a Command Prompt Go to c:\program files\mcafee\common framework\ Type the comand frminst /forceuninstall After the uninstall…

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Disable Snap a new feature in Windows 7

According to Microsoft, “Snap is a quick (and fun) new way to resize open windows, simply by dragging them to the edges of your screen. Depending on where you drag a window, you can make it expand vertically, take up the entire screen, or appear side-by-side with another window…” This feature poses a problem for those who would drag their…

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Create Windows 7 AIO (All In One) DVD

This article will demonstrate how to merge 11 editions of Microsoft Windows 7 onto a single-layer DVD. Except for the Enterprise edition which is not available to the general public, each edition of Microsoft Windows 7 DVD contains all available editions (Starter (available for x86 only) , Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate), however, is locked into a single…

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Back Up and Clear Windows Event Logs with Perl

Years ago, I combined and modified several pieces of Perl code to create a Windows Event Log backup utility. The original version was based partly on an Event Log script included with some Windows Perl distributions. This version can: Back up Windows Event Logs to the C:, D:, or E: drive. List the fixed drives available on the computer. Create…

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Create an Adobe Reader 9.4.3 Package

Adobe updates their products in relatively frequent and regular intervals. Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader is no stranger to this practice. Since the launch of Adobe Reader 9.0 in 2008 and as of this writing, there has been 15 updates to that product alone. For some users, the automatic update feature is sufficient. If you are in an environment where…

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Windows 7 SP1 Fails with Error Code c0000034

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Plagued throughout the internet are the users of Windows 7 whom had attempted to install the service pack 1. However, the installation fails with error code c0000034 and the inability to use the computer. There are many different solutions that seem to exist, however, one has been more successful than the others by a user named thiswoot. Basically,the goal is…

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WordPress Plugin WP-Ratings error [Resolved]

There is a plugin called WP-Ratings. It has worked well over the years until recently. It may have been as a result of a WordPress upgrade. Whatever the cause, WP-Ratings failed to work. The symptoms is that the rating stars were visible, until the user clicked on them. The ratings would become invisible or blank and result in an error…

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Automated Scripted Install of WordPress on CentOS/RHEL Linux

Many WordPress users have enjoyed WordPress using an Internet host provider or on an XAMPP installation on a Windows installation. This exercise is a combination of several guides with some personal tweaks to install WordPress 3.5.1 on a fresh install of of CentOS 5/6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5/6 using PHP 5.2.4+. Install Packages Using yum install MySQL,…

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Linux: Count the number of processes running.

There was a need to determine the number of processes that was running on a Linux installation, specifically CentOS 5.6. I can’t find the source of this again, however, did use Google to find this information. Anyway, here is the command line needed. This command returned the desired results. ps auxh | wc -l The result will be a number,…

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Script to backup a domain controller systemstate with ntbackup.exe

A command line script was needed to backup the systemstate of Windows 2003 domain controller with the builtin Microsoft NTBackup utility called ntbackup.exe. The thebackroomtech has a respectable example of such a script from which I have created a modified version to better suit our requirements. This script was created to backup a Windows 2003 domain controller systemstate. To break…

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Get Rounded Edges in IE with PIE!

Recently created a WordPress theme where I wanted rounded corners around text boxes, buttons, and forms. Being not too patient with the creation of little corner images to satisfy this requirement within Internet Explorer, I decided to use the -moz-border-radius within the stylesheet. The drawback is that this -moz-border-radius will only work within Mozilla based Internet explorers and not the…

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Blackberry Storm 9530 Loses Sound From Speaker and Fix

With just over a year of what I would consider normal use, I discovered that my phone, the Blackberry Storm 9530 was no longer capable of producing sound through the built-in loud speaker. As I have learned with this phone, that a hard reboot, caused by the removal of the battery, generally repairs any problem that I have encountered in…

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Outlook 2007 Disappears When Restored

Outlook 2007 may occasionally appear to minimize incorrectly in Windows Vista or Windows 7. The Outlook icon remains visible on the taskbar, but the program window is either extremely small or positioned somewhere off-screen. Right-clicking the Outlook taskbar icon and selecting Maximize brings the window back. However, clicking Restore causes it to disappear again. Restarting Outlook or rebooting Windows usually…

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Upgrade Java JDK on CentOS RHEL 5.5

This guide will detail the upgrade of the Java Development Kit (JDK) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.54 and CentOS 5.5 operating system. This example is accomplished through the use of PuTTY and XMing. In our example the following guide was used to install the original JAVA JDK. Install Java and Set Environment Variables Download JDK6 Note: The…

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Resolved: Could Not Backup Website with CPanel

For years the practice had been to backup the website using the Full Backup functionality from within CPanel. It has worked valently until recently. Recent backup attempts would proceed as usual and upon completion send out an email alerting the administrator that the backup had succesfully completed. However, the backup did not successfully complete. The backup was far from complete….

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Use Paint.NET to Mockup an Image

To find a rare record is difficult enough. To find an image of one is almost as difficult to find as the record itself. To find an image worth using can prove to be as difficult as finding the original record itself. In some cases, it is possible to create a mockup of an extremely rare record while maintaining the…

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