Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

How to compress .php, .css and .js files without mod_gzip or mod_deflate

How to speed up page load times by compressing .php, .css and .js files on Apache web hosts that do not have mod_gzip or mod_deflate enabled.

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How to programmatically disable Adobe Updater

How to disable the ‘Automatically check for Adobe updates’ feature in various products by programmatically editing or replacing the AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat settings via batch file.

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How to delete Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects)

How to create a small batch file to delete Local Shared Objects, commonly called Flash cookies.

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Adobe Flash Player

A collection of useful links for managing Flash Player across a user-base. Direct downloads to the latest versions, a version test page, RSS feeds, and the Settings Manager.

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Detect and fix Word add-in problems with a macro and batch file

How to detect when important add-ins are not correctly loaded when Word starts and fix them automatically.

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Installing and configuring IIS 7.5 on Windows 7

Notes about setting up IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 and configuring it to run some classic .ASP pages and enable parent paths.

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How to create a bootable USB drive that can install any edition of Windows 7

A guide to creating a bootable USB drive that can be used to install any edition of Windows 7, and a neat trick for extending the 30-day trial to 120 days.

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Fixed: No new pictures or videos were found on this device

A fix for that irritating ‘No new pictures or videos were found on this device’ message in Windows when importing images a second time.

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VMware “Cannot open the disk ‘XXXXXX.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.”

How to resolve the issue where VMware expects to find a missing snapshot file and will not boot the virtual machine.

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Dreamweaver rewriting valid code as camelCase

Prevent Dreamweaver from rewriting your lowercase attributes as camelCase.

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