On a recent vacation, taking a train across the entire country, I was using my cell phone’s 3G connection to provide my Internet connection. Every little tunnel and other signal interference along the way would cut off the SSH connection I was sending all my traffic through. While googling, still on the train, I found […]
Also, how to log on without activating Windows 🙂 Ghosted a machine to a new harddrive today, as the old one was failing. Windows activation pops up on the first boot, as is to be expected, but when I clicked “Activate”, nothing happened. The activation wizard simply wouldn’t continue. And of course I couldn’t get […]
So the installer says something like: Setup has experienced an error. Please do the following: – Close any running programs – Empty your temporary folder – Check your Internet connection (Internet-based Setups) Then try to run the Setup again. Error code: -6003 What do you do to solve this? Why, erase any folder with a […]
Short and simple: to allow automatically logging in on Windows 7, you need to press Win+R to open the run menu, then type “control userpasswords2” without the quotes and run it.
The ultimate .bat-file for completely resetting and fixing all sorts of stupid Windows Update errors. Stuff the following into a .bat-file and run it regsvr32 /u softpub.dll /s regsvr32 /u wintrust.dll /s regsvr32 /u initpki.dll /s regsvr32 /u dssenh.dll /s regsvr32 /u rsaenh.dll /s regsvr32 /u gpkcsp.dll /s regsvr32 /u sccbase.dll /s regsvr32 /u slbcsp.dll […]
VMware server uses port 902/TCP for remote connections. It is easy enough to allow outside connections to this port through the Windows Firewall interface in the Control Panel. However, if you want to do it the “Windows Way (TM)” the trick is to add “vmware-authd.exe“, found in the VMware Server folder in your installation directory, […]
This content has been deliberately stolen from http://blogs.msdn.com/yash/archive/2007/09/19/intellisense-issues-in-visual-c-2005.aspx and saved here for personal reference. All credits to that page. Intellisense issues in Visual C++ 2005 When we are working with Visual Studio IDE, sometimes we encounter issues related to intellisense. The main objective of this article is to provide some basic troubleshooting steps to overcome […]