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[ 2021-04-29 ] Learn from Donald Trump skills of handling the press (по-русски) Ideas
[ 2021-04-22 ] Democratic Machiavellian disciple opens his cards (unwillingly) Ideas
[ 2021-04-15 ] Obama/Hilary would like to know will Russian/Chinese leadership survive a nuclear strike and keep operating Ideas
[ 2021-04-14 ] RUS: Споры о Трампе пересекают границы, делят семьи
EN: Arguments about Trump cross borders, divide families Ideas
[ 2021-03-29 ] Trump – Why no one knew? Ideas
[ 2021-02-26 ] Trump vs. Internationalists Ideas
[ 2021-02-17 ] Clinton vs. Trump – Dream of businessman in White House trumps the dream of a woman in there Ideas

Automate Database Backup with SQL Express

2021-06-03 Udar Gromov 8

This article describes, how to automate database backup in SQL Express with mixed Windows and SQL Authentication running on Windows 2008 Server. This material was tested with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express. SQL Server 2008 Enterprise comes with Maintenance Plan feature. That feature allows amazing flexibility and auditing. SQL […]

Cisco VPN Client Error 51 – Open Your Firewall

2021-06-02 Udar Gromov 4

Annoying! How Annoying! This very simple, very typical error message, but it is so hard to find a quick solution. Symptoms: You are starting a Cisco VPN Client and immediately you are getting this error message: Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem. Please make sure that you […]

Horizontal Line in Excel Header and Footer

2021-06-01 Udar Gromov 0

We would like to add a horizontal line to the header of an Excel file to be repeated on every page. To add a horizontal-line we first need to create an image of a horizontal line in your favorite imaging software. Create a PNG image 660 by 3 pixels […]

IE opens blank new tabs instead of your home page

2021-05-10 Udar Gromov 0

You have masterfully designed custom home page for your Internet Explorer (IE). All of a sudden, only first tab displays your home page. All other new tabs in IE open as a blank page. What happened? Something is changing IE settings back to “A blank page” ? This particular fix […]

WordPress: Image Editor is not loading in IE under tight security

2021-05-07 Udar Gromov 0

Let’s say you have a very thigh zone security setup in IE. All Internet sites are set to High security level, and Trusted sites are set a Medium-High. In that case you might experience a painful WordPress problem – Image Editor is not loading in IE. It is getting stuck on […]

Extremely Slow Windows XP Shutdown – Fixed

2021-05-05 Udar Gromov 15

Several years I had this problem in one particular instance of Windows XP Professional – an extremely slow shutdown upon clicking on Shutdown button. For several minutes system would completely freeze, and then Shutdown/Restart dialog box would finally come up. What did I know about the problem. It was extremely […]

Macros to “Paste as Text” for Word and Excel

2021-05-03 Udar Gromov 7

These two macros will save you a lot of time. You will used them every time when you need to copy something from external source (like Internet page) into a Word or Excel document, but you do not need all the colors and formatting. You just need the text. Normally, […]

SQL – Count combinations of values in several columns

2021-05-02 Udar Gromov 0

You have a large table (in my case it has 8,697,647 records) with an Asset Number and a Business Unit, and you would like to know if any asset has record with multiple Business Units. You can count records of unique Asset/BU combinations, but this is not what you want: […]

How to properly zoom in Word and Excel – Ctrl+[+] and Ctrl+[-]

2021-04-27 Udar Gromov 0

This is cool! This is fresh! Make your Word and Excel to respond to human zoom commands like normal applications. In most modern applications you can zoom in and zoom out current window using fast Ctrl + Plus and Ctrl + Minus keyboard shortcuts. Not so in Word and […]

PHP chokes server with TEMP files – Updated and Solved

2021-04-23 Udar Gromov 0

I am running PHP on IIS 7.5. This is a Windows 2012 Server. Fresh clean install every time. The only way to access and delete these TEMP files are by using a command prompt. And this deletion procedure will run for several DAYS . . . The Problem The story […]

PC Sleep and PC Hibernate Shortcuts

2021-04-19 Udar Gromov 4

Everybody wants a shortcut for PS Sleep to save time on clicks. Instead of 3 clicks Start – Shutdown – Sleep every time, let’s have just one click – Sleep. There is a way to do that. Please tell me, if this also works in Windows XP. […]