Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Another Thunderbird Tip

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Thunderbird’s default sorting is the wrong way around, IMHO. This has always annoyed me, I found out how to reverse it.

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Thunderbird Tip

Friday, October 26th, 2007

So for ages I have been using Thunderbird combined with server side mail sorting, what has been annoying me for a year or so is that Thunderbird only checks the Inbox folder. I had to manually check all the others and that got a little tedious, fortunately I discovered how to get around this.

The trick is to open the configuration editor (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced) and set the mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new preference to true. Bingo!

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Pocket PC 2002 Skipping the Welcome Programme

Friday, October 12th, 2007

When you hard reset a Pocket PC device it runs a Welcome one time tutorial programme, this can be skipped, by hooking it up to a computer and deleting the Welcome shortcut inside \Windows\Startup. Took me a while to find this one out so I thought I would document and share.

In side news Microsoft’s value has plummeted, and is for sale at PCWorld: El. Reg :)

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Windows Firewall

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

I find a firewall on my windows installation personally a waste of resources, so I have it removed in my nLite customised installation media. Well I had problems installing the Company of Heros: Opposing Fronts Beta, it kept trying to adjust Windows Firewall and of course failing. So I had to reinstall it, found out how to here.

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Vista License

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

I forgot to blog this interesting article about Windows Vista’s licensing.

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Internet Explorer Toolbars

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

I found the following screenshot on the forums and had a good chuckle, I think I would cry if I actually had a PC to clean with that many BHOs installed.

Internet Explorer BHOs gone crazy

Click for full size.

Image robbed from here.

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Best of Contest 69

Monday, May 1st, 2006

The task Modify a classic propaganda poster (or create a new one) for one side or the other in the pro- and anti-Microsoft conflict, the results.


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Norton Internet Security Rant

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

What could possibly be wrong with one of the most popular Internet Security products on the market? Surely it is the most popular for a reason? Yes, PC World and other places marketing it very strongly and lots of badware being produced by … umm … bad people.
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