EndNote does not work with an authenticating proxy server.
DaleAnd it’s a bug/feature which is at least 10 years old, and Thomson Reuters have not fixed that issue in those 10 years. It wouldn’t be that difficult to fix…
A strange issue with a MSI 1603 and a Lotus Notes Hotfix.
We’re currently deploying Fix Pack 3 for Lotus Notes 8.5.3. But before we do that, we need to do an uninstall of s Post Fix Pack 2 RSS hotfix. The…
Performance wise, it improved Windows 7 logon time by 15%
It, being a Microsoft enterprise hotfix rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. And the 15% logon time improvement was just when I applied it to…
Saturday link roundup.
Any Video Convertor - Free Edition This is what I use for converting .AVI to DVD playable discs. CIFS and SMB Timeouts in Windows This blog post gives a consolidated…
How to tell a PC’s network link speed remotely
By using PowerShell like this: Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface -ComputerName Localhost | Format-Table Name,@{label="LinkSpeed(MB)";Expression={$_.CurrentBandwidth/1000000 -as }} which will return this: I first learnt how to do this by reading this blog…
Moving WordPress to a new domain.
I researched this a couple of months ago, in case I need to move off the wisefaq.com domain. These are my rough notes. Six weeks out: Backup your WordPress site,…
Saturday Link Roundup–”Your WordPress blog has been hacked” Edition
Did your WordPress site get hacked? How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation Removing Malware from a WordPress blog – Case Study
What happens if my Windows Domain time clock is fast …
… and I want to change it back? It depends on the operating system. The latest documentation from Microsoft states MaxAllowedPhaseOffset Registry path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config Version Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows…
Saturday Link Roundup
Root Causes for Slow Boots and Logons (sbsl) “There is no shortage of root causes for boot and logon delays. Some delays are caused by code-defects in the OS or…
WinDirStat causing a Bluescreen?!?
WinDirStat is a good little disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool. But both times I’ve used the Delete option, I’ve ended up with a BlueScreen of Death. It’s happened…