In the time you used your current Windows 7 system you undoubtly have plugged in a lot of different USB devices into your computer, most of them never to be used on it again. You will have notices that for every different device, Windows comes up with a message telling you that it automatically installs ... Read more
Whenever you need to call executables from the command line, this is not possible unless you either have directed your console to its location with the cd (change directory) command, or have set it in the PATH variable. The Path variable is a string consisting of one or more data paths seperated by a semicolon ... Read more
Plugin-container is a Firefox process designed to 'out-source' the plugins used by the browser. Firefox' model is based on the use of plugins to add functionality, however this goes along with a chance of instability due to a malfunctioning plugin - this would cause the whole browser to collapse since the plugins were all included ... Read more
There is a possibility to create a Windows 7 installation DVD that runs fully automated without any user interaction - this is done by placing a file called autounattend.xml into the image's root directory. In this file you specify all the keywords that will be read into the fields of the installation process. To create ... Read more
Error: 0xc1420117 The directory could not be completely unmounted. This is usually due to applications that still have files opened within the mount directory. Close these files and unmount again to complete the unmount process. This error happens when you use another Dism.exe which is located in C:\Windows\System32. The correct application to use is C:\Program ... Read more
The Dock, main navigation element in Apple's Mac OS X, is a powerful tool to quickly access your most important files if you tend to use the same pieces of software or the same folders over and over again. Rocketdock is such a dock application designed for Windows: It works like the original OS X ... Read more
SSL certificates are used to sign and encrypt/decrypt mails in thunderbird via S/MIME. If you have got a certificate that you want to use to validate your identity, import it as follows: Open Thunderbird and go to Edit > Preferences: Click on Advanced and go to the Certificates tab. There, click on View Certificates: On ... Read more
If you need to have multiple commands in one line in MS Windows' VBScript, you can accomplish that by using the colon (:) operator. The following line of script will display two message-boxes after each other: Msgbox"Hello." : Msgbox"Hey!" You can leave as much space as you want between the commands and the colon.
There is a feature in NTFS data system that lets you easily hide your files from nosy people using your computer which is called Alternate Data Streams. What they basically do is to hide files behind others, using them as a "container", but they only are executable if you enter a specific syntax in your ... Read more
As of ISPConfig 3.0.4, the text of the welcome email message that is sent to new email accounts is stored in the folder /usr/local/ispconfig/server/conf/mail/. The message has this format: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: ISPConfig <postmaster@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Welcome to your new email account. Welcome to your new email account. Your webmaster. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The first line starts with "From: ... Read more