Tips & Tricks for Windows, Office, and Whatever
While I was working on the index, I decided I wanted to include a short excerpt instead of just making a list of hyperlinks. We're using a custom excerpt that was too long and while the RSS excerpt worked ok, I wanted shorter and control over the … [Continue reading]
In Create a list of pages in a specific category, I showed how I created index pages for my WordPress site. It works great except with two categories. These two categories are parent categories and the code includes the child categories too. Because … [Continue reading]
I moved slipstick.com into WordPress as a CMS and wanted a list of articles in each category, on separate "index pages". On my old site, I used a fairly simple asp script to read one folder and list the files in the that directory. Each folder had … [Continue reading]
When you try to preview Office documents in the File, Open dialog, an error is returned. The same document previews as expected in Windows Explorer or other Office applications. Steps to repro: Open Word Go to File, Open Select a folder where there … [Continue reading]
In a recent Facebook discussion about whether or not a problem with Media Center was caused by a virus or just some goofyness with the computer, I had this to say: "I've heard people tell others that stupid Outlook behavior was caused by a virus... … [Continue reading]
Some programs (especially older applications) need to run with administrator privileges in Windows 7. Or you may need to run the program with administrator privileges for other reasons. With most programs, you can right-click on the shortcut and … [Continue reading]
I got the following phishing email today. The first giveaway that it was not legit was in the first line... plus the message was formatted with ugly green text. ™From Microsoft windows lives corporation™ (TM marks?!?!) ? Hear by? Severe user? Every … [Continue reading]
I'm trying to set up a new Windows XP virtual machine (in Microsoft's Virtual Server) and the F8 (to accept the EULA) wouldn't in the virtual machine. I searched Bing (google searches are useless lately) and most websites say you need to set the … [Continue reading]
I wanted to upgrade our XSOLive.com demo site to Sharepoint 2010 for months but never found time to mess with it. Then something got messed up on the server and fixing it was more work than upgrading. A lot more work, as it turned out. Moving the … [Continue reading]
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