Alex @ Net

Continuing collecting system tweaks that are suitable for software developers, I've decided to create a registry patch that turning off IE's friendly errors (the messages that IE shows instead of actual error). Just create file fix.ie.friendly.error.reg with the following content and run it when you want to disable them:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Friendly http errors"="no"

My collection of BAT File tips was updated - I've just added two more tips: String Replace and String Split.

This article will help you search for files in seconds using locate-like commands on Windows.

I have about 5000 photos in my archive. About two days ago they were on two computers, in different folders, some of them had wrong names or creation date and some photos are copied multiple times. They occupied a lot of space and it was hard to backup all of them.

So, I decided to change the situation and create a few simple rules that make my photo collection better organized and apply them for existing photos. And these rules should not be complex (I'm very skeptical in my ability to label each photo with tags) and allows me to quickly navigate over the collection and find photos. And here they are:

This article will help you install Microsoft Virtual PC and create an image of the Windows Vista operation system.

Today I play a little with ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces). It is a set of classes, available in Windows XP that allows you to change configuration settings and manage system objects, such as users, groups, security permissions and so on. With ADSI you can even change IIS configuration settings.

The following examples demonstrate how to automatize daily administrators' tasks: creating and deleting user accounts and changing users' membership.

I spent a few days on investigating how to modify IIS metabase from script. What I need is to add PHP engine to IIS programmatically during installing PHP. Now it is done and here is a few notes on this.

Let's play with BAT files a little. As you may know, BAT files are intended to be run and processed by the MS command processor, named cmd.exe, and the programming language they are created with is very close to BASIC. The early versions of the BAT-files language (which comes from famous Windows ancestor, MS-DOS) were very limited.