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Stuck in MSCONFIG Diagnostic startup? – Steps to fix

2020-11-23 Udar Gromov 1

XPS12 is back online. I experienced a mini-crisis of my own creation. My 3-year old Dell XPS 12 laptop with latest Win 10 Pro build started to misbehave here and there, and I used MSCONFIG and set computer to Diagnostic startup – the option in the middle. That locked laptop […]

Windows 7 – How to Copy and Delete Massive System Directories

2020-11-18 Udar Gromov 1

Problem: You have an old discarded instances of failed Windows 7 installs. You can rename the directories, but they still clutter your hard drive, and they are very hard to get rid of. I simply can’t take this painful and slow process of deleting huge system directories under Windows 7. […]

Block PC Outbound Connections on Router Level (All but RDP)

2020-11-17 Udar Gromov 1

This article applies to a scenario, when you already can establish RDP to a machine on your internal network from a remote network. Now you’ve decided to tighten security screws and close all external access to and from that machine except for RDP on the router level. Inbound connections to […]

Moving Old ASP Sites to 2008 Server, IIS 7, and SQL 2008

2020-11-14 Udar Gromov 5

It was time to move many sites from W2K3 Server (Windows 2003 Server) and SQL 2000 Server to a new W2K8 Server (Windows 2008 Server) and SQL 2008 Server. And if I ever have to do it again, I will check with these notes. The greatest secret in technical life […]

Office and Browsers

How to Export Yahoo! Group mebers into Excel – Painfull!

2020-11-07 Udar Gromov 0

This is a poor’s man manual on how to export Yahoo! group members list into Excel. Yahoo! used to have this simple feature right on their page, but it is gone now. Instead you would have to do this painful semi-archaic way of getting the data. To make it look […]

How to Re-Install SQL Server 2008 Evaluation

2020-10-29 Udar Gromov 1

You have 180 days to evaluate. You can check number of days till expiration: open your SQL Server Management Studio and widen first line in Help — About box. What if your trial is about to expire, and you need just a few more days to evaluate? You can switch […]

You can sign PowerShell certificates with New-SelfSignedCertificate and without MakeCert

2020-08-14 Udar Gromov 1

For those who can’t wait, here is the solution right away. Next two lines actually work – without using MakeCert.exe: New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName STA07 -Type CodeSigning Set-AuthenticodeSignature C:\T\add-signature.ps1 @(gci Cert:\LocalMachine\My -DnsName STA07 -codesigning)[0] First command creates a certificate in both Current User and Local Computer Intermediate Certification Authorities. Second command […]

Office and Browsers

Keyboard Shortcuts for Next, Previous, Euro, Degree Symbols and Moving Around Inside a Worksheet

2020-08-11 Udar Gromov 0

I never can’t remember the Notepad equivalent of “F3” (Find Next) in Word and Excel. Here are the keyboard shortcuts, that are most useful, but almost impossible to remember. Also I constantly need Euro currency symbol (€) and Temperature Degree symbol (°), when writing my travel notes about Europe. […]

How to Run Malicious Software Removal Tool?

2020-07-27 Udar Gromov 0

MRT Just 3 letters you need to know – MRT That is right, just type MRT.exe in you Start – Run box. Why they hide it so deep? Why there is no easy answer anywhere on the Internet? The program is located in %WinDir%\System32\MRT.exe Once again, to run Malicious Software […]

Office 2010 Encountered an Error During Setup – Many Sulutions

2020-07-26 Udar Gromov 1

You are an expert. You are almost a god. You can manipulate complex installs and difficult projects. This time you just want to test Office 2010, and be done with it. […This article is quickly growing. There are surprisingly many nuances behind behind this simple facade ——>] You quickly create […]

All Background Colors Are Gone from All Sites
Solved with One Click

2020-07-25 Udar Gromov 0

Just an hour ago your were a happy browser. Everything worked great. All of a sudden, all the background colors are gone from all web pages on all sites. Pages are now looking bald and stripped. What just happened? If you are on Windows 7, I know the answer. […]