Miscellaneous Computer Stuff

This page is a collection of solutions I've needed for my own use and have put them here largely because I wanted them easily accessible. I hope you find them useful.

How do I backup my sites and settings for CuteFTP? There are two ways. Copy the contents of C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\GlobalSCAPE\CuteFTP to your backup location or open the program > click Help > Backup Registration and Personal Data

Objective - You want to remove the numbers, the space, the dash and the space from the following list so that all is left is the genre.

Method - Paste the text into a Word document. Click Edit > Replace > Click the More button > put a check in the Use Wildcards box > put 2 question marks, a space, a dash and a space in the "Find What" field ?? - . Leave the "Replace" with field blank. Click Replace All. Voila!

If you have a varying sequence(your numbers go to 3 digits) you'll have to replace using the above ?? - string and then use one question mark to remove the remaining digit.

00 - Blues
01 - Classic Rock
02 - Country
03 - Dance
04 - Disco
05 - Funk
06 - Grunge
07 - Hip-Hop
08 - Jazz
09 - Metal
10 - New Age
11 - Oldies
12 - Other
13 - Pop
14 - R&B

Sudden slowdown of CD DVD performance, specifically, ripping is slow. - Go to this page and all your troubles will go away. http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm if this is offline, go here. Donate $5 to this guy, it's way worth it.

Diskeeper Disk Maintenance Utility	Monastic Web Site Monitoring
Belarc Advisor PC Hardware and Software Inventory	MyUninstaller Alternate Program Uninstall Tool	Erasing Data: Eraser, Darik's Nuker
Allway Sync File Sync and backup utility - freeware This is pretty awesome!! Buy the commercial version to reward the author for a job well done.	K9 Web Protection Protecting your family from the Internet	MwSnap Screen Image Capture rated highly by Kirby author
ExamDiff Pro Be all, end all of File Comparison programs	Possible backup utilities Robocopy GUI, SyncBack Freeware, KarenWare Replicator	FastStone Image Viewer http://www.faststone.org/
Kirby Alarm Superior Alarm Software (it does so much more) Go get this now and learn to use it. You will be glad you did.	Winpatrol System security	Hot Swap Utility for eSATA drives and other devices Version 4.0.0 is here
Easy CD-DA Extractor MP3 Ripper Extraordinaire	Super MP3 Recorder Pro Another option for recording Internet audio	nlite Really nice slipstream tool
For Extracting Software Keys from a Computer, Managing Sell Extensions nirsoft.net	Open DNS Excellent Tool for Restricting Access to the Internet	Diskeeper
i-Sound WMA MP3 Recorder 6.7.0.9 Internet and Computer Based Audio Recording Excellent software for recording audio on your computer. I use it to record streaming post-production Internet radio programs. It has integrated scheduling and voice actuation, the two most important options that I need.	CPU-Z Excellent PC Hardware Inventory Tool	Outclass and Popfile Spam Fighting Installation

The required file naCmnlib.dll cannot be found in your path. Install Microsoft Office Outlook again.

This is a mcafee file and is found in the McAfee Common Framework folder in Program Files.

Try reinstalling McAfee and if that doesn't work, just remove McAfee completely and don't use an Anti-virus program. Yes, that's what I said. If you know what you're doing and don't do ignorant things with your computer and others don't use your computer, then forget using A/V software. The computer will perform better anyway. If you don't agree with me, fine, I don't want to hear your opinion. Do whatever turns your rotor.

1/22/2007 Outlook is crashing again, but there was very little information in the crash window that popped up. I tried rebooting, and then clearing my mail via webmail (I've had bad emails crash other email apps). Neither of these helped. Hmmm... maybe McAfee has broken outlook again. I removed McAfee and sure enough, Outlook started working.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Microsoft Office 12
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 1/22/2007
Time: 6:40:20 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER
Description:
Faulting application outlook.exe, version 12.0.4518.1014, stamp 4542840f, faulting module scanemal.dll, version 8.0.0.1020, stamp 4480ec45, debug? 0, fault address 0x0000349d.

You need to print a configuration page. Here's how - There is one button and two lights on the front of your printer. The button is referred to as the “Go Button”. The two lights to the left of the button are the “Ready” and “Go” lights, top and bottom respectively. While the printer is in the “Ready” state (Ready light is green), press and hold the "Go" button until the "Go" light (bottom light) turns orange (about 6 seconds) and then release the "Go" button.

Where does IE7 store it's cache / temporary internet files? C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files

If the destination date is <no matter> & the size is <different> during <any transfer>, then <overwrite>. Settings file available here.

How to schedule a defrag of your drives - Create a batch file, with the following content and then run the batch monthly with kirby alarm.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\defr ag.exe driveletter: -f (the -f forces a defrag on the drive)
C:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe driveletter: -f

Replace driveletter: with whatever drive you want to defrag, followed by a colon.If you have more than one drive, enter a defrag command line for each drive. They will defrag one at a time in the order listed.

A user on an XP box with less than admin privileges wants to run a program as administrator without manually entering the admin credentials each time. Can this be done? Yes.

"Create a shortcut to the program and then under the properties for that program icon in the Target add: c:\windows\system32\runas.exe /savecred /user:Administrator before the actual path, so for internet explorer it would like this: c:\windows\system32\runas.exe /savecred /user:Administrator "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"

CuteFTP adds a context menu item called CuteFTP 8 Professional Shell Extension which breaks the ability to right click a batch file and click "Edit". Use the program called ShellExView to find this and disable it.

If Excel is not scaling any longer for you, try changing your printer driver. Mine stopped one day and I changed from PS to PCL driver and all was well.

Running MSConfig gives the following error - An Access Denied eror was returned while attemtping to change a service, You may need to log on using an administrator account to make specific changes.

Fix: If you're using McAfee A/V disable On Access Scan. You may have to poke around a while in the console to change a setting that will permit this. Look for confirmation that On Access Scan is off. The McAfee icon may have a red circle/slash on it. Now run MSConfig and close it. When I did these things, MSConfig runs normally now.

Path to the Vista start menu: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Removing Vista Update Files (doesn't remove the updates, just the temporary files. This will make all updates permanent)

Pinning a file to the Start Menu - Drag it to the start button, then to the pinning area.

1- Open Google Chrome
2- Click the Wrench
3- Click "exit"
4- Immediately open google chrome again
5- Resize Window to desired size
6- Close google chrome using the "x" at top right of screen