I’m trying to solve a problem where my computer at work takes forever to become usable after logging onto windows.

Edit: For lazy people, the end result was mapped drives were slowing boot time significantly. The following tweaks helped only with the delay between logging in and seeing the taskbar.

First thing I tried was various performance tweaks from TweakXP.

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Toby Thain has made a free plugin for Photoshop that lets you save graphics as .ico files. It’s not over the top like some plugins, its just real basic save as, pick the sizes, etc. Download it here.

I decided to work on making my music blog better tonight.

New features:

• AJAX search bar (in the header)
• The ability to rate artists, with highest rated stats on the sidebar
• An archives page
• A “browse” page where you can browse artists alphabetically
• A tags page for browsing genres
• Some new posts

Tricks

• Using TrendMicro Security Server
• Speedup downloading large attachments in Thunderbird
• Use hMailServer to share email across a home network

Spam

• Installing ASSP with hMailServer
• Use ASSP with hMailServer
• Add ASSP multiple report buttons in Microsoft Outlook

Dealing with Problems

• Very large mailbox crashes hmailserver

This is a simple PHP4 -> PHP5 error. Make sure the following is in your .htaccess file.