Admins running Windows 8 and/or Server 2012 will notice that the Internet Explorer Maintenance section has been removed entirely… the joys. These settings now have to be configured via Group Policy Preferences. First navigate to User Configuration/Preferences/Control Panel Settings. Right-click on Internet Settings and select New >

Basically the issue was a NIC that could receive traffic but not send. Looking at the event  viewer I saw the message “IPSec driver has entered Block mode”. I got around this issue by modifying the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\ReservedPorts Update the

After many years my trusty XBOX no longer cuts it as a HTPC as most of the releases I want are in HD (and why shouldn’t I take advantage of that).  After reading many forums and spec-in up numerous units I decided on the following: * ASUS AT5IONT-I [http://www.

For MOVING: > sudo mv <file> /usr/local/base/.. for COPYING > sudo cp <file> /usr/local/base/.. In place of <file> you can put the filename, or a directory or even anything using a wildcard eg: *.mp3 to move all the mp3 files

1. Start Active Directory Users and Computers; click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers. 2. On the View menu, make sure that Advanced Features is selected. 3. Double-click the user that you want to grant send as rights for, and

The trunk folder contains the main development branch, the branches folder contains subfolders with temporary copies of trunk for experimental development, release stabilisation etc. and the tags folder contains copies of the officially released versions.

Query a user i.e. ‘Admin’. From the command prompt: dsquery user -name *admin* Result: "CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=microsoft,DC=co,DC=uk" "CN=ScomAdmin,CN=Users,DC=microsoft,DC=co,DC=uk"

If like me you spend a lot of time downloading installers for numerous websites then you might want to try Ninite [http://ninite.com/]. 1. Pick the apps you want. 2. Start your customised installer. 3. You’re done! It's not got everything I need but will defiantly

If you want to redirect all pages of an entire site to the main page of another domain, add the following code to your .htaccess file: RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.example.com/ The .htaccess file should be stored in the same location as the index page to your OLD domain

WordPress and WAMPserver are one of the best buddies when you want to write a personal localhost’ed blog. Recently, when I installed wordpress and chose to use ‘pretty permalinks’, all I got is Error 404-File not found. i checked the .htaccess file if the changes have been written to

Thunderbird, the Mozilla mail reader, comes with the ability to Forward an email (via an icon on the toolbar) which will send out the email under your name. Sometimes it’s desirable to Redirect (or “bounce”) a message. Although it’s possible to detect that a message has been redirected,

This is defiantly the easiest way to create excellent FavIcons without have to open a graphics package. Head over to HTML-Kit.com [http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/] update any image you want and you’ll get your icon within a few seconds – its as easy as that. If you want

A little option called ‘Envelope Distort’ is what your after. Create your letters in the appropriate font. Make sure the path is the top object and choose the following: Object > Envelope Distort > Make with top Object Its best to duplicate the path layer before using the Envolpe Distort

Download the following Windows package, which you can also get by clicking here: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/icoformat-win-1.3b3.zip Now all you have to do is extract icoformat.8bi to your plugins folder in adobe. Now the next time you start Adobe you will have the option

The BT line test facility can be accessed from any BT line Unplug any extension phones, extension cables, answer machines or fax (anything except the phone you will use to do the test). Plug a normal touch tone phone directly into the BT master socket. Dial 17070, press option 2

We need to change the security settings in order to run these files, the best way is from the PowerShell [http://www.microsoft.com/powershell] command line. To change the execution policy to RemoteSigned type the following: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned Thats it!