Unhandled Perception

Ever hide someone in Facebook only to later want to see there posts in your timeline? Hiding someone is easy, just mouseover a post and click the Hide button that appear on the right. Unhiding, that’s a little tricky. Here’s how to do it:

1. Go to your Facebook homepage
2. Make sure you’re displaying the Newsfeed – click the Newsfeed link on the left if needed
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom of your Newsfeed.
4. Click the Edit Options link on the right side of the bottom bar
5. Click the X next to any name in the Hide listbox to unhide them

Most of us remember Windows System Restore as a lame-duck feature from Windows XP; when it seemed we might benefit from using it, it never quite worked how we expected. That’s no longer the case.

Windows System Restore is an awesome system recovery tool, and it’s included with Windows for free. It’s the ideal solution for rolling back bad drivers, fixing when buggy software breaks your PC, or simply rolling you back to a previous point in time. If you’ve still got a bad taste in your mouth from the lackluster XP version of System Restore, it’s time to take a look at it again if you’ve upgraded to Windows 7 or Vista.

Link:
http://lifehacker.com/…

Fix It is a relative new way of solving problems that occur in the Windows operating system. These fix it solutions are basically one-click solutions for fixing problems. The Fix It logo will signal to the user that an automated solution is available. It usually consists of a file that has to be downloaded to the local computer system and executed from there.

Link:
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/…

Would you rather have the menu bar in IE8 to be more like Firefox, or other Windows application, in the sense that it will appear at the very top of the window? A simple reg hack will get that going for you.

1) Copy the bold text below into a text file (between the lines)
———————————————————–
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\]
“ITBar7Position”=dword:00000001
———————————————————–
2) Save the text file with a REG extension (like toolbar.reg)
3) Double click the file and allow it to update your registry
4) Shut down IE8 (if open) and restart it.

Before the change:

After the change:

Received this error on a slow running PHP script on my server:

The FastCGI process exceeded configured activity timeout IIS

How I resolved it:

1. Goto %windir%\system32\inetsrv\fcgiext.ini
2. Locate the ActivityTimeout parameter and copy it into the [php] section of the ini file
3. Make sure the ActivityTimeout parameter is uncommented out
4. Change the number to whatever you want (units are seconds)

I got the above error message (This website is designed to work with Microsoft Windows operating systems only) when trying to run Windows Update. A Mac, really?. To fix the issue, and get Windows Update working again I deleted the following two registry keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]

Once deleted, I rebooted the computer and all was working again.

If you want to see what your Agent string is check out:
http://www.veign.com/tools/reflection/
(look at Browser information)

One tool that I have found to be valuable beyond compare is the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD). This compilation of software has just about everything you need to diagnose hard to find low level problems, and also some other tools that every PC technician should have available.

UBCD on a USB thumbdrive.

Link:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/…

There were a few people who asked me to help them with their systems running slow even though they are positive it contains no malware of any kind. Thanx to the folks at DonationCoder there seems to be a logical explanation and a sorta fix.

Link:
http://…/how_do_i_fix_this_high_cpu_usage…

Did you know that in Internet Explorer the URL you type into the address bar are stored in the registry. Even if you clean your history these URL’s will remain active in the IE address bar history.

How to clean:

1. Start menu -> Run -> Regedit
2. Navigate to the key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs]
3. With the key highlighted in the left view pane you can see the typed in URLs in the right view pane
4. Delete values as required or remove the entire key (IE will recreate the key when needed)

I know there are tools that will automatically clean this history for you but I don’t want a whole application for something I clean only every few months or so. What I did was create a registry hack that will delete the typed in URL key in the registry (it will be recreated by IE when you need it). Download it and double-click it the .reg file and your history will be cleaned.

Link to reg hack:
http://www.veign.com/registry-hacks.php

Would you rather have the menu bar in IE7 to be more like IE6 in the sense that it will appear at the very top of the window? A simple reg hack will get that going for you.

1) Copy the bold text below into a text file (between the lines)
———————————————————–
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\]
“ITBar7Position”=dword:00000001
———————————————————–
2) Save the text file with a REG extension (like toolbar.reg)
3) Double click the file and allow it to update your registry
4) Shut down IE7 (if open) and restart it.

Before the change:

After the change: