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This isn’t what I want to be writing about. But a recent discovery compels me to do so. So, I’ve decided to make this an experiment, and beg your apologies that this will not have much technical merit despite the title.After the last post, Set the Prio…
Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on January 31st, 2008 with comments disabled.
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I have been using Office 2007 for some time now, and I just ran across a free download from MS:
2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS
I like to save many of my documents as PDF, since they readable/printable across many platforms. I have been using FinePrint’s PDF Factory - but I don’t have a license for every system I use.
It turns out to be a great alternative. Simply download the plugin, and within any Office 2007 application you will see a new “Save As..” option:
I have tried it out on a few documents and it works great.
If you are looking for a quick and easy way to save to PDF in Office 2007 I highly recommend it.
Written by Steve Wiseman on January 31st, 2008 with comments disabled.
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I wanted to get this Idea on by blog because I wanted to be the first who proposed such a method of overclocking. According to general relativity, clocks run slower in locations with higher gravitational force. I quote from wikipedia: Gravit…
Written by computerboom on January 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Check out this new Powershell Cmdlet from Darren Mar-Elia: We have had the capability with other tools/script - but using PS is new, great stuff! .
Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on January 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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If you have looked into "The onion ring", or just "Tor", you have probably wondered if it would be wise to block access from these anonymous servers (or maybe just the exit nodes). I am not gonna talk about how the encrypted Tor net…
Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on January 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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News Analysis. Uh-oh! Two Fs and only one A mean Vista won’t be going to the head of the class. Windows Vista’s one-year anniversary is Wednesday. Microsoft released the software to everybody on Jan. 30, 2007. A day earlier, Microsoft held a…
Written by computerboom on January 30th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Read an interesting piece of information about the most likely security threats in 2008 - read it here! Top Ten Cyber Security Menaces for 2008: Increasingly Sophisticated Web Site Attacks That Exploit Browser Vulnerabilities - Especially On Trust…
Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on January 29th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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A while back we released a IE 7 blocking tool. It uses a registry key that Automatic update checks. If it is present, IE 7 will not automatically install.
Starting February 12th, IE 7 will begin showing up on Automatic updates, and ignore the special registry key. It will be up to the user to continually reject the install.
It is unfortunate that Microsoft has not decided to extend this date. I know quite a few companies with third party apps - that simply will not work with IE 7.
Beyond the compatibility issue, I personally dislike IE 7 in its present form. It is a slow and clunky interface. Every time I come across a machine that has it - I find myself downloading Firefox.
I will be sad to see IE 6 to go. Even with all of its quirks, it was still far better than IE 7.
The same could be said about Vista and XP 
At the end of February we will be deleting the IE 7 blocking tool from our website, and removing it from Network Administrator.
Written by Steve Wiseman on January 29th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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We had this problem this morning suddenly the printer was buggy.
Trying to edit the printer properties resulted in an Explorer.exe message somthing like this:
C:\Winnt\Explorer.exe error. Function address 0×4f4c49f9 caused a protection fault. (exception code 0×0000005) Some or all property page(s) may not be displayed
And I saw this in the application eventlog.
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in spoolsv.exe [1084].
Luckily the spooler did still work for other printers connected than the HP one.
I suspected a driver corruption and installed the drivers for the HP 2300n from the HP site.
That did not help still the same message but I got into the printer properties and got to the driver properties.
I then installed the old drivers we had backupped. But again at no avail.
After searching the net I installed the HP Universal Print Driver [UPD].
http://h20338.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/342988-0-0-225-121.html
This solved the problem.
Written by Teus on January 28th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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The other day I was playing around with the Image File Execution Options and Sysinternals’ Process Monitor, in Vista. I saw an interesting query take place. Using notepad.exe as an example, I saw a query for a key called “PerfOptions” in [HKEY_LOCAL_MA…
Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on January 27th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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