Archive for "Windows"
Sep10Apache/WAMP slow on Windows 7
After i had installed WAMP on Windows 7 the loading of web pages on my localhost server slowed down considerably. After negotiating with it for a few days i decided to find the culprit out and ultimately i reached at the conclusion -but not before applying a workaround and testing it okay – Click to continue »
Apr28Resume download of PART extension file in Firefox
In some cases, when a large file had been downloaded through Mozilla Firefox, downloading of file gets interrupted for some reason. The Firefox would tag the download as “failed” and you are left with nothing but a .PART file. You right click it, it would ask you to ‘retry’ which would restart the download from the beginning. In my case i had been downloading a 100MB zip file and it failed once 97MB of it was downloaded. Click to continue »
Mar04Creating new virtual host in Windows
Step by step guide to create virtual host on Windows XP or Window7 (WAMP installed)
1. Navigate to: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and open the file named ‘hosts’ in a text editor. You should see 1 or more lines that have an ip address, then the hostname. Eg: Click to continue »
Jun06Creating Show Desktop icon on quick launch bar in windows xp
Today i saw my show desktop icon was gone off my quick launch bar automatically. I looked around and came up with a simple solutions.
To re-create the Show desktop icon yourself, follow these steps: Click to continue »
Apr17Delete SVN files in Linux or Windows
Sometimes you checkout a recent API source code via some SVN client to your local system and thereafter want to remove SVN files from the directory structure. Here are the different ways to remove SVN files from your linux or windows directories: Click to continue »
Mar27How to install IE7 and keep IE6 in XP
Steps to Install IE7 and Keep IE6 as well
- Download and install IE7 from Microsoft Website. Installing IE7 will remove IE6 from your system. Don’t worry we will bring it back in a moment.
- Download Multiple IE installer for different versions of IE here.
- Retrieve any/all of IE 6, IE 5.5, IE 5 and/or IE 4.
Happy IE browsing!
Mar20Show hidden files and folders not working in window xp?
I tried to enable “show hidden files and folder” option in my window xp but after clicking “apply” and “ok” when i returned back to the folder to view hidden files it did not show the hidden files. I tried once again and then again but it did not work. The changes would just disappear upon opening the dialog again. Click to continue »
Feb26Windows keyboard shortcuts (hot keys)
This post lists keyboard shortcuts that you can use with Windows. I have picked it from Microsoft website for my personal reference. You too can use it. 
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