This little issue can be quite annoying on any Windows machine. You have a device that suddenly stops working, and device manager just shows you its famed little yellow exclamation mark. When you open the device, you are greeted with the error:
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
So, I was using a third party plugin to handle all my social media sharing, which was very cool at first, but it started slowing my site down (as it connected to another site), so a few hours ago I ventured out onto the web trying to find the code to do this all myself.
Have you had it that when browsing to a website hosted within a domain on an IIS server, you get logged off immediately? If you then use the IP address it works fine, and also using ‘localhost’ from the server works fine? This could be caused by a hostname containing an underscore.
Here is an interesting formula for calculating the data transfer rate vs connection speed of a modem.
This is an awesome tool. Awesome awesome awesome. Complete conditional control over anything you are copying! You can use it for directory comparison, drive recovery and pretty much anything else your copying heart desires. Designed initially as an internal tool for use by Microsoft, it has been kept up to date, and was officially released to the general public in April this year as part of Hoffman’s Utility Spotlight.
Every now and again, you come across a machine that has the registry die completely, coupled with an error message along the lines of
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
To restore the registry is relatively easy albeit drawn out, providing Windows Restore is enabled.
Now THIS is a handy little piece of Javascript to have. I have plenty of passwords which Firefox remembers better than I do for lots of websites. This little piece of code saved to a bookmark can reveal those!
I’m sure every IT person has a whack of commands that they use on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. I know I have, and I know that I forget the commands and waste a whole bunch of time Googling them. This is one of them. I’m posting this without a long winded description, and without any liability or I-told-you-so’s. Use at your own risk…
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