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Disable the ‘Back’ button

Found this while googling. I needed a way to prevent users from backing up and sending dual requests. This is what I found.

Use the history.forward() JavaScript directive in the head section of each page. Thus, when the user attempts to back up within your site, the script will bounce him forward each time.

Include the following text in the <head> portion of each page.

The user can always leave by manually entering a new URL in the address bar. The first time you visit this page, you will be able to use the back button to return to the previous site you visited. The back button is effectively disabled and users are forced to use the provided breadcrumbs.

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Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Factory Restore

Mini 10 with XP:

Reboot, press and hold Ctrl+Fn.

The Dell logo screen will appear and freeze after progress line finishes

Continue to hold Ctrl+Fn, now then press F11. It will go into Ghost Recovery recovery.

Please enable system restore and take incremental backup from now on!

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Find a Dell Service Tag

Goto the command promt and type

wmic bios get serialnumber

This butt-saving script was found on LazyNetworkAdmin.

Query your dell pc’s for their service tags.

Open notepad and disable wordwrap
copy the following text and paste it into your blank notepad
‘
on error resume next
strComputer=InputBox (“Enter the computer name of the server you’d like to query for Service Tag”)
Set objWMIservice = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2″)
set colitems = objWMIservice.ExecQuery(“Select * from Win32_BIOS”,,48)
For each objitem in colitems
Wscript.echo “Dell Service Tag: ” & objitem.serialnumber
Next
‘
save the file as DellServiceTag.vbs
Execute the script and it will prompt for a computer name
Type in the computer name of the dell machine
You will then receive another message box with the dell service tag.

To run this against multiple machines then do the following: Read the rest of this entry »

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Need printer driver files (.inf)

HP forces us to download an executeable that installs drivers. Sometimes you go thru the slow-ass download process and then the slow-ass extraction and *nothing* happens. NOTHING. WTF, mate? Do this:

1) goto START->RUN-

2) Type ‘%temp% without the quotes.

3) open the directory for the driver you just extracted and COPY the path. It went someplace, this is where it went.

4) Add your printer and select the option to tell it what directory you chose. PASTE the path you copied into the.. path.

5) Complete your install as normal.

Make sure to print a copious amount of test pages with ink on high quality as punishment for wasting your time! The test page should read:

If you can’t keep up with your Installation Materials, give them to me…

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Migrating Blackberries… some things didn’t copy.

Ok. for me (READ: MY WIFE), it was memo pad that didn’t make it from the old BB to the new. My peaceful evening depended on my copying her memo pad stuff from the old BB she loved to the new one I forced on her. Here’ what I did.

Fire up your BB desktop software
Find the advanced portion of backup/restore
Create a custom back up of only the Memo Pad
restore it to new one.

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WHS Backup Failed

The computer failed to take a snapshot of the volume for backup

This is a good reason to run VMWare on your work machine. I install and uninstall a lot of software. It doesn’t always uninstall correctly. Symantec left “Symantec Software VSS Provider”. It turns out that there was a “leftover” VSS provider from a previous Norton Ghost. I think I had it on my machine for like 10 minutes. Here are the steps to get your backups running again: Read the rest of this entry »

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Replace RUNDLL32.exe without using system restore

Find a copy of rundll32.exe in folder c:\windows\system32\dllcache or in c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386.
If you find this, go ahead and copy rundll32.exe to the system folder c\windows\system32.

Otherwise you need a windows disc to expand this file.

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Update Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) Offline

Some viruses diable windows update, which prevents MSE from updating. Do this to update MSE offline

1. Download the offline definition updates for MSE from Microsoft:

Download for 32-bit

Download for 64-bit

2. Double-click and run the update. Read the rest of this entry »

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Duplicate profile folders exist

If you lose Full Control permissions to your profile folder, in the %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings folder, Windows 2000 and Windows XP will create a new one the next time you log on. The new profile is named:

UserName – if the older profile was deleted.
UserName.ComputerName – if the old profile exists.
UserName.ComputerName.000 – if UserName.ComputerName exists.
UserName.ComputerName.001 – if UserName.ComputerName.000 exists.
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Use Gmail IMAP in Microsoft Outlook 2007

Perfunctory because the wife asks me over and over. Got it from the How-To-Geek.

Enable IMAP in Gmail Settings

Open your Settings panel in Gmail, and then click on the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab.

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