Posted by Sean Juan on Aug 4, 2009 in
Windows XP O/S,
Windows XP Support
Here are two possible fixes I’ve come across on the internet:
- Just refresh the icon cache by deleting the IconCache.db file from your profile directory (usually /Documents and Settings/Username/Local Settings/Application Data). It will be automatically recreated.
OR
- go into Display Properties under the Appearance tab. From the Item drop-down list, choose Icon.
- Click the up arrow in the Size box to increase it one size. Click Apply.
- Click the down arrow in the Size box to return the icons to their previous size. Apply.
Tags: blank icons, windows xp
Posted by Sean Juan on Jun 5, 2009 in
Windows XP Applications Although Adobe has their own page for troubleshooting this issue (see below), they did not work for me.
After some troubleshooting this is what worked for me…
While trying to install adobe flash player activeX for Internet explorer (any version), the installer and/or uninstaller hangs when extracting files from the package downloaded from adobe.
The installer would hang at “extracting files to c:\windows\system32\macrod\xxx”
For some odd reason by terminating a process with a .TMP extension allowed the installer to complete.
The same may work with the uninstaller problem.
INSTALLER
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/ts/documents/tn_19166/Install_Flash_Player_10_ActiveX.zip
Some other tips that have worked for others:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html
SIDE NOT: on one machine there was major HD activity but the installations finally finished but took 10 min
Tags: activeX, adobe, flash player, IE, install problem
Posted by Sean Juan on Apr 3, 2009 in
Windows XP O/S This seems to work quite well. Always backup your registry anyways.
Kill explorer.exe and iexplorer.exe processes,
Then run regedit.exe
Delete these three keys.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StreamsMRU
Tags: icons, registry
Posted by Sean Juan on Feb 18, 2009 in
Websites Check out this generator I came across. Dead Simple to use. Copy and paste the supplied HTML code to your site.
http://www.map-generator.net/
“Generate your very own map for your homepage:
just enter your address and copy a small HTML snippet onto you web page.”
Tags: google map
Posted by Sean Juan on Feb 12, 2009 in
Windows XP Applications Question/Problem: When I launch WS_FTP (Home or Pro) a small window pops up. Inside is a yellow triangle with the word “Never!”. After clicking ok a few times the error disappears but WS_FTP does not run.
Answer/Solution:
If the WS_FTP Pro splash screen will not go away, end-task the “wsftpgui.exe” process in the task manager (or just reboot the system).
Browse to the following directory:
C:\Program Files\Ipswitch\WS_FTP Professional
(In some cases, the default installation directory is:
C:\Program Files\WS_FTP Professional)
Delete the file named psapi.dll
*** Please note: Only delete this file if it is in the WS_FTP Professional directory. Do NOT delete it from any other directory especially Windows or System32. ***
source http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/WS-20060811-SP01.htm
Tags: ftp, ipswitch, never, ws ftp, ws_ftp
Posted by Sean Juan on Oct 16, 2008 in
Web and Graphic Design MIDPHASE / AN Hosting SUCKS!
Throughout my years designing and supporting web design clients, I have been through many hosting companies. Accuburst was the first and after a year they completely vanished into thin air. Host excellence has been pretty good to me as well as Host Gator. However, the majority of my clients are on MIDPHASE due to my recommendation. Their support is great and I have been with them for several years. However, it seems like they are trying to grow too fast from their humble beginnings. I noticed huge ad campaigns and extremely crazy sounding deals…which brings me to the point. They recently came out (for a short while) with an “UNLIIMTED PLAN” that included unlimited disk space, transfer, and hosted domains. This seemed too good to be true for $7.95 a month. Alas it was…I signed up 3 clients with them and they are all on the same server and the sites have been down over and over again…EVERDAY.
Today, it has been down for over 12 hours and counting. Speaking and emailing support has not helped. I’ve even requested the site to be moved to another server and it still hasn’t been initiated when I was promised “immedidate” help.
They have this status blog http://status.midphase.com
and read the log that describes my situation! What morons. It does not take 12+ hours to replace a drive in a RAID setup. I have requested them to move all 3 of my clients to other midphase servers…but after this incident they are not getting new business from me!
By Chris Place | October 16, 2008 @ 10:25 am
We are currently working to replace a failed drive in the RAID array of esc122.midphase.com. This is a fairly simple procedure, but it will take some time to correct. We will update this post as more information becomes available.
::Update 6:00pm CST:: The server is currently undergoing a FSCK ( file system check) to ensure the integrity of the data. Once this is complete all accounts will be brought back live. Unfortunately we do not have a ETA for this process to complete.
Topics: Service Outages |
MIDPHASE HOSTING SUCKS!
Tags: midphase, web hosting
Posted by Sean Juan on Oct 7, 2008 in
Web and Graphic Design Unfortunately, in this digital age, spam is everywhere and almost impossible to avoid. Using major players like hotmail, gmail, yahoo can help since they have decent spam filtering. However, good email will once in a while make its way in there as well. Now where do the spammers find your email address? Well there are a multitude of ways that range of someone infected with malware/spyware that has you in their contacts (address book) to making your email address public via a blog, forum, etc;
If you have your own website (business or personal) and need to have your email address displayed for some reason – perhaps under your contact us page – the best way to protect yourself from spam bots AND still have a click-able mail-to: link is to cloak your email address. This is mostly done through converting your email address into ASCII characters or using JavaScript. The latter is much more effective.
Even with a simple ASCII conversion, I have tested several email addresses and they have not collected any spam in months. However, the JavaScript method should be even more effective.
Here is a link to a GREAT FREE TOOL that will do all that for you at a click of the mouse.
DESCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHORS WEBSITE:
Web Email Cloaker is a simple utility for webmasters to beat the spam-spiders by cloaking email contact information in obfuscated or complex JavaScript code. Web Email Cloaker uses multiple methods of cloaking together to create email contact code that displays correctly but is utterly unreadable by email-hunting spam robots.
http://acme-web-design.info/free-web-email-cloaker.php
Tags: avoid spam, cloak, email, email cloaking, spam, spam bots
Posted by Sean Juan on Oct 6, 2008 in
Office Space All to often I call another business professional and hear the same voice mail message,
“Hi, you have reached Mr. Smith. I am unable to pick up the phone right now. Please leave your name, phone number, and a brief message and I will get back to you at MY EARLIEST CONVENIENCE. Thank you.”
First of all it’s a generic message, which is OK and standard. However, what’s up with the “MY EARLIEST CONVENIENCE”? Unless your a rock star and people worship you, shouldn’t you just say that you will get back to them “AS SOON AS POSSIBLE” ? This is one of those things that get tossed around in the corporate world and become a standard, even though it’s senseless. The same goes for the word “advise”. Have you ever received an email from someone with a problem and at the end they say “Please advise”? Another senseless statement. Google it, it’s annoying to everyone! This guy even made a SHIRT for it.
http://jasoncosper.com/archives/please-advise/
Tags: my earliest convenience, please advise, voice mail
Posted by Sean Juan on Sep 25, 2008 in
Websites On one of the forums I manage, teamcjmf.com, someone posted their quiz results for a motorcycle personality test. I gave it a try and I should be riding a Yamaha R1. In real life I ride a GSXR600 but I would’ve got the R1 if it wasn’t so damn high! Apparently Yamaha’s development team thought 5’7″ people wouldn’t buy a R1 anyways. Even if you don’t have a motorcycle you can still take it. Post your results here and let me know how accurate it is.
http://helloquizzy.okcupid.com/tests/the-motorcycle-personality-test
Tags: motorcycle, quiz, test
Posted by Sean Juan on Sep 25, 2008 in
Windows XP O/S Configure the dump type
To configure startup and recovery options to use the small memory dump file, follow these steps.
Note There may be slight variations in steps if you are running a version of Windows other than XP
| 1. |
Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. |
| 2. |
Double-click System. |
| 3. |
Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Startup and Recovery. |
| 4. |
In the Write debugging information list, click Small memory dump (64k).
To change the folder location for the small memory dump files, type a new path in the Dump File box (or in the Small dump directory box, depending on your version of Windows).
NOTE: If you have a system with 4 GB of RAM, you cannot select a full memory dump. You will have to choose either a minidump or kernel dump. With these, you may have to analyze a couple before getting a better idea of what the problem is. |
Tags: configure dump, kernel dump, minidump, windows, windows xp