Tag Archives: Windows

Turning off Windows error reporting in Windows 7

Posted by dave on February 13, 2012 No comments

Every time a program crashes I get this popup. It’s quite annoying and Windows has never once found a solution. Sometimes this searching for a solution window is hidden behind another window too, causing more of my time to be …

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Creating a Windows Service from the Command Line

Posted by dave on July 27, 2011 No comments

Pretty simple, given that you already have your program ready. Just a word of caution, don’t forget the space between the equals and the quote, see here: sc create MyServiceName binPath= “c:\program files\myservice\MyServiceName.exe”

Fixing thumbnail folder view in Windows 7

Posted by dave on July 13, 2011 No comments

I was doing a bit of web work and wanted to clean out the images that clearly weren’t being used anymore, but when I opened up the folder all that was displaying was the icons and not the thumbnails of …

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Windows could not search for new updates, Code 80072EE6

Posted by dave on July 1, 2011 No comments

So today I started work on our new, New Zealand based VPS. We currently have a 2k3 box and are about to roll out a few new sites and so it was time to update to 2k8. As per usual, …

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Window 7 SP1 Fatal Error C0000045

Posted by dave on April 4, 2011 No comments

First thing on a Monday morning, get into the office, and bam, fatal error, awesome. After trying and failing with the usual repair methods I consulted my mate Google who pointed me here and in turn here. It seems that …

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PHP optimisation in Windows IIS

Posted by dave on February 18, 2011 No comments

Firstly, use the non-thread-safe version of PHP, its more efficient, see here. If you are unsure which version you have, check the very top of phpinfo() Then you can make some slight changes to php that will save some processing …

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.jira-home.lock not removed when restarting Windows

Posted by dave on February 15, 2011 No comments

Following a machine reboot the other day, my copy of Atlassian JIRA stopped working with a startup error that the lock file was still in place. I have had this happen before and so to make sure it doesn’t happen …

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Setting up a CA and Issuing Certificates in Windows Server 2008

Posted by dave on January 10, 2011 No comments

I’ve setup a lot of external certificates before, to improve security on our corporate websites and webmail etc. but I’d never really dealt with them much internally. We needed to do some testing on a https site before it went …

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Using hMailServer with RoundCube front end (DCOM Errors)

Posted by dave on December 17, 2010 No comments

I installed hMailserver and then installed the RoundCube front end. I then installed a few of the plugins (‘archive’, ‘settings’, ‘userinfo’, ‘emoticons’, ‘markasjunk’, ‘additional_message_headers’, ‘jqueryui’, ‘rss_feeds’, ‘google_contacts’, ‘hmail_password’) but was having an issue with the hmail_password plugin, which was fairly …

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