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Disable Non Genuine Windows Warning Messages
[Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Thu, May 25 @ 03:41 PM
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Originally posted on Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on 4/27/2006
This copy of Microsoft Windows XP is not genuine - Want to bypass and remove this warning by disabling WGATray.exe?
Windows XP Pirates have again found workaround methods to bypass the new Microsoft Anti-Piracy effort - Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications that notifies you through annonying pop-up messages if your copy of Windows is not genuine.
The WGA Notifications patch is installed if the user has opted to automatically update Windows via the Windows Update Website or if a XP users manually downloads the latest Windows updates.
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Is Firefox still safer than IE?
[Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Fri, May 13 @ 10:03 AM
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By Brian Livingston
The popular Firefox browser received a security upgrade, known as version
1.0.4, when the Mozilla Foundation released the new code on May 11. This upgrade closes a security hole that
could allow a hacker Web site to install software without a visitors' knowledge or
approval.
This is the fourth minor update to Firefox since the open-source browser's
1.0 release on Nov. 9, 2004. That doesn't seem like very many patches to me,
compared with Firefox's dominant competition, Microsoft's Internet Explorer
(IE), which is included in every copy of Windows. But I've heard a surprising
amount of comment that Firefox might no longer be as secure as IE.
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Flash Online Avatar Maker
[Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Fri, Sep 03 @ 12:55 PM
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This is a local copy of a Flash 'Avatar Maker' that I originaly saw on dookyweb.com.
Very nice for making quick but yet personal & unique Online Avatars.
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City of Heros building flicker with ATI cards
[Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Sat, Jul 10 @ 02:01 PM
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If you play City of Heros and have an ATI graphics card you probably have been rubbing your eyes a lot lately.
ATI's latest Catalyst driver sets (4.5-4.7) have caused some of the textures used in the buildings to flash.
While this does make for a nice "Disco" effect for some of the Retro players, most find it annoying. How annoying really depends on how large the particular flashing building is. In some of the zones with very big skyscrapers in can be close to unbearable for me.
I finally broke down and waded into the Community Forums to look for a solution. Luckily, like the rest of this game, the forum for CoH is kinder-and-gentler than most game forums.
After only about an hour I had found and implemented a simple and effective fix for this bug and had a good feeling that ATI will probably fix it themselves in a month or two.
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Customize the Windows Explorer Views in Windows XP
[Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Thu, Jun 10 @ 11:31 AM
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Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 307856
You can use the command-line switches either to customize the default view that Windows Explorer uses when it starts, or to specify the view when you start Windows Explorer from a command prompt.
You can use the following switches with the Explorer.exe command.
| Switch |
Result |
| /n |
Opens a new single-pane Window for the default selection.
This is usually the root of the drive on which Windows is installed. |
| /e | Starts Windows Explorer using its default view. |
| /e, <object> |
Starts Windows Explorer using its default view with the focus on the specified folder. |
| /root, <object> |
Opens a window view of the specified object. |
| /select, <object> |
Opens a window view with the specified folder, file or program selected. |
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Browse Win 9x Shares faster from Windows 2000
[Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Tue, May 29 @ 10:23 AM
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From Brian Livingston's Window Manager column (March 9, 2001)
Reader John Kehoe reports on an easy way to speed up your browsing of Windows 98 and Windows Me from Windows 2000 machines.
It turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a local network from Windows 2000.
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How to turn off Windows Scripting Host
[Tech/IT] Posted by steve on Fri, Mar 09 @ 10:36 AM
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By Robert Vamosi, ZD-NET Help & How-To
This default feature in Windows may be an open invitation to VBS worms.
Recent virus outbreaks have exploited known vulnerabilities in Visual Basic Scripting under Windows. For example, NewLove and ILOVEYOU both contain attachments ending in .vbs which the user must click on to become infected. In order to limit the risk of infection, users of Windows should turn off Windows Scripting Host. Doing so will prevent you from executing .vbs scripts by double-clicking. For a complete discussion of the pros and cons of removing Windows Scripting Host, see To script or not to script.
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