Acronis 2009 Breaks Dynamic Windows Raid Array

I just tried installing Acronis True Image Home 2009 and ended up having to use system restore twice now because it would disable my dynamic windows raid array I have setup on my pc after the next reboot. The only way I was able to fix the problem was to do a system restore. I’m on Vista x64 Ultimate edition.

Slow Windows Load Time

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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Useful hMailServer Tips & Tricks

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

osCommerce Error: Unable to determine the page link

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

osCommerce PHP4 -> PHP5 Fixes

There are a few problems that come from moving an old install of osCommerce to a new server with PHP5 or just simply upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5. (more…)

Plesk Error: NonzeroExitException (Solution)

I got this error trying to restore a Plesk backup from one server to another: (more…)

MS Access: The RunMacro action was canceled.

I was trying to run an msaccess macro using Windows XP scheduled tasks. It wasn’t working. It gave me the following error when it tried to close access after the macro was finished:

“The RunMacro action was canceled. You used a method of the DoCMD object to carry out an action in Visual Basic, but then clicked Cancel in a dialog box. For example, you used the Close method to close a changed form, then clicked Cancel in the dialog box that asks if you want to save the changes you made to the form.”

My server was running macro’s fine, so I looked at the Task Properties and noticed they were different.

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How to setup Highslide JS plugin for NextGEN Gallery

• Download the WP-Highslide *WORDPRESS* Plugin, install it to your site.
• Download the Highslide JS code from the authors website.
• Find the highslide.js file in the authors code and put it in the wp-highslide plugin’s main folder.
• Rename the WP-Highslide plugin’s folder to “highslide”
• Activate the plugin.

Xcopy Sharing Violation

If you get a “Sharing Violation” error while using the DOS “xcopy” program, just use the “/C” switch to make it continue copying even if errors occur.

Can’t Update Adobe CS3 / Photoshop 10.0.1

All that I can see when I run any of the Adobe CS3 patches, including the Photoshop CS3 10.0.1 update is just a blank installer screen. Even the button doesn’t have any text in it. Update: I solved it!

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