VB.Net
Creating Windows Task Scheduler with Task Scheduler Managed Wrapper in C# & VB
Windows Service System.Timers.Timer not firing
Timer events not firing in Windows Service – VB.Net 2008

Other
A Month Without Adobe Flash Player
How to Uninstall and Disable Flash in Every Web Browser
Designer Tool: A Blank Playing Card Template

• Warning!!!–Group Policy Logon Scripts Delays in Windows 8.1
  ”Last month, I wrote an article on the Petri.co.il website, reviewing the new features around Group Policy in Windows 8.1. Buried in that list of new stuff was a feature that was perhaps a little unheralded and under-advertised, but one that may cause administrators a world of hurt if they are not expecting it. Specifically, I’m referring to the change in Group Policy-based logon script behavior for Windows 8.1 clients. If you are using Group Policy-based logon scripts today to map drives or printers, set up registry or environment variables, etc., when you migrate your client machines to Windows 8.1, those logon scripts won’t run until FIVE MINUTES after logon has started. For some users, this could mean broken environments as processes or environmental setup steps that are expected to kick off at logon don’t.”
• Windows 7 Notification Area Automation – Falling Back Down the Binary Registry Rabbit Hole
• Inside ADM and ADMX Templates for Group Policy
• ADM to ADMX Migrator Tool
• Managing Group Policy ADMX Files Step-by-Step Guide
• Automatically Pin Items to Windows 7 Taskbar for all users
• 32-bit and 64-bit application data in the registry
• Registry Keys Affected by WOW64
• Accessing an Alternate Registry View
• What everyone and their mother should know about VFS in App-V, pt. 1 – Fundaments of Virtual File System

Web browser (mostly Internet Explorer)

• User agent string detection
• What’s My User Agent
• Internet Explorer 11’s Many User-Agent Strings
• IE Internals – The User-Agent String: Use and Abuse
• Detecting Browser Features and Internet Explorer Compatibility Mode
• We know IE! – Optimizing Performance with automatic Proxyconfiguration scripts (PAC)
• Internet Explorer – Understanding Web Proxy Configuration
• Compatibility View is used for Trusted sites in Internet Explorer 8

Other

• Windows 7 – Fixing The Mapped Drive Credentials Problem
• SSD Secure Erase
• archlinux – SSD memory cell clearing
• Australian Government Information Security Manual – Controls

http://openlivewriter.org/
Microsoft have forked and open sourced Windows Live Writer!

How to disable IPv6 or its components in Windows
How to correctly disable IPv6 in Windows

LDAP & Active Directory Timestamp Converter

Processor Hacker
”Process Hacker was started in 2008 as an open source alternative to programs such as Task Manager and Process Explorer.”

Group Policy application fails on a computer that is running Windows 2000, Windows XP Service Pack 1, or Windows XP Service Pack 2
And Windows 7 as well.

How to reset a Roaming Profile in Windows 7

Script to list all active users and their group membership in a domain

Windows 7 Notification Area Automation – Falling Back Down the Binary Registry Rabbit Hole
”After countless hours of searching for a programmatic way to modify the notification settings of the task tray icons, I came to the conclusion that there are many questions and no answers out there. I embarked once again on the fun task of reverse engineering a binary registry setting to change a setting that should be pretty straight forward but, alas, is not. …”

How to be a reviewer
Chortle’s style guide for writers

And finally, some interesting Firefox plugins:

• Auto Reload
  ”Reload page automatically when selected local files are changed.”
• LastPass
  ”LastPass, an award-winning password manager, saves your passwords and gives you secure access from every computer and mobile device.”
• Session Manager
  ”Session Manager saves and restores the state of all or some windows – either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. It can also automatically save the state of open windows individually.”
• Tab Auto Reload
  ”Adds auto reload menu to tab.”
• Tab Rotator
  ”The Tab Rotator automatically switches between the open tabs of a browser window after a certain amount of time.”

Setting up BlogJet, and I saw this helpful error:

Firing up a network sniffer, we can see that this (un)helpful error is actually a :

Digging a bit further, it seems some webhosts block access to XML-RPC.PHP.

One Solution: renamed the XML-RPC.PHP to something different.

edit: have also seen the error with Windows Live Writer.

Gift of glass – Hand blown glass