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[ 2023-04-22 ] Democratic Machiavellian disciple opens his cards (unwillingly) Ideas
[ 2023-04-15 ] Obama/Hilary would like to know will Russian/Chinese leadership survive a nuclear strike and keep operating Ideas
[ 2023-04-14 ] RUS: Споры о Трампе пересекают границы, делят семьи
EN: Arguments about Trump cross borders, divide families Ideas
[ 2023-03-29 ] Trump – Why no one knew? Ideas
[ 2023-02-26 ] Trump vs. Internationalists Ideas
[ 2023-02-17 ] Clinton vs. Trump – Dream of businessman in White House trumps the dream of a woman in there Ideas
[ 2022-12-23 ] Contradiction in US Economic Policy that Trump would need to address Ideas

Extremely Slow Windows XP Shutdown – Fixed

2023-05-05 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

2023-05-03 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

2023-05-02 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+[-]

2023-04-27 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

2023-04-23 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

2023-04-19 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. […]

Transfer Rosetta Stone user progress from PC to PC

2023-04-13 Udar Gromov 0

To transfer your progress data from one PC to the next you need to copy one file: tracking.db3 On Windows XP this file is located in: “%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Rosetta Stone\Language Training\” OR “%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Rosetta Stone\” (on version 3) On Windows 7 this file is located in: “%ProgramData%\Rosetta StoneLanguage Training\” “%ProgramData%\Rosetta Stone” […]

Remotely Power Up or Wake Your Wired PCs Over the Internet

2023-04-11 Udar Gromov 0

Idea – Reduce Noise, Save on Electricity My electric company installed an electricity consumption gadget, and ability to monitor usage online. A few month into the experiment I realized, that I can easily reduce electric usage, if I turned off my server. It is been over a year since I […]

Fix “Cannot generate SSPI context” while connecting to SQL Server

2023-04-10 Udar Gromov 0

Here is a problem resolved here – you can connect to MS SQL Server 2012 from the office, but when your try to connect from home over remote (in this case AVENTAIL) connection you would get an error message: “Cannot generate SSPI context“. Once again, from the office you can […]

SQL Error 80004005 – “Specified SQL server not found” – Solved

2023-04-06 Udar Gromov 0

Environment ASP or ASP.NET site is running on IIS 7.5. SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (10.50.1600.1) running on Windows 2008 Server R2 (W2K8 R2) x64. Problem You will see one of two errors depending on whether you dealing with ASP or ASP.NET sites. On ASP.NET sites you will […]

Windows Photo Viewer: Can’t Rotate Images on a Network Drive – Solved!

2023-03-30 Udar Gromov 1

It is the the LITTLE problems that annoys the most! I love Windows, but why Windows is so awkward in same strange and unexpected ways? This article is about one of such problems – Image viewing and rotation. Why it is so hard? Do not even think to joke here. There […]