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Stop multiple “upprinterinstaller” command windows popup every hour

2023-06-04 Udar Gromov 0

After synchronizing your laptop with corporate policies you might notice that multiple black command windows will popup on a regular basis that might even look like some virus. You are in luck if you hade ADMIN rights on your laptop. You can easily go to registry and delete all references […]

Automate Database Backup with SQL Express

2023-06-03 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

2023-06-02 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

2023-06-01 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

2023-05-10 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

2023-05-07 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

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 […]