Reset lost admin password in osCommerce RC1+
Forgot your admin password in the newer versions of osCommerce? Either of these two fixes will reset your password to “pass“.
- Get into your database with something like phpMyAdmin
- Go into the “administrators” table
- Edit the record there for the user “admin”
- Replace the contents of the password with this:
6cdd7c57450225fac77427f5962bb726:40
Or you could just run this query, if you’re database is setup the standard way.
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UPDATE `administrators` SET `user_password` = ’6cdd7c57450225fac77427f5962bb726:40′ WHERE `id` =1 LIMIT 1 ;
Random black screens
Problem: My friend has a computer that was acting up. The screen goes black (disconnects, orange light) when opening up big programs, or in the middle of game play, etc.
Solution: Increase the voltage on the ram. I’m not sure how much or how to do it, just look it up.
Mapped drive not offering to remember password
Problem: I have a few new Windows XP installs, and they aren’t offering to remember the password for my mapped network drives.
Can’t connect at 1000mbps, only 100mbps
Problem: Had a computer with a nice, new on-board Intel NIC. It would only connect at 100mbps. I even put another Intel network card in that was working at 1000mbps on another computer and it still wouldn’t work. The internet was also running very slow.
Solution: I forgot that I had setup the network in that office to run the network cable through the network power filter on the UPS. Set it up the normal way and everything was back to normal.
Foobar2000 Interface Crashing / Win16 Subsystem Resources
The foobar interface crashes frequently throughout the day on 2 of the computers here at this company. The screen goes all transparent and almost nothing is visible. See image:
I have found out one thing though, if I try to open an old 16 bit application after this has happened, it spits out an error:
This error won’t stop appearing when I open 16 bit apps until I reboot my PC.
Update: I believe I have solved this problem. I backed up, then removed all the files that have to do with this program and reinstalled and I haven’t seen this happen since.
WordPress Theme Resetting
Problem: WordPress theme on my site was reverting/resetting back to the default occasionally.
Why: I had a subdomain where the site used to be (basically another copy of the site running in a different location with the same database), and any time something browses to that website, the theme gets reset.
Solution: Get rid of the other site.
Don’t expect an XP repair install to work!
Try restoring the system to an earlier state with the recovery console in safe mode, or in safe mode with command prompt first! If you do a repair install it clears all restore points, so if the repair install doesn’t work, you’re screwed and have to format!
Windows XP black screen on bootup with only mouse working
Problems:
- Can’t load Windows XP GUI, all I get is my mouse on a black screen.
- Can’t load “Safe mode with command prompt”
- Can’t do a repair install or use the repair console to fix the problem.
What happened:
It wasn’t my computer and I wasn’t there when it broke down, but apparently someone was playing World of Warcraft and they got a message box (probably outside of the game) asking them a question, to which they responded “yes” (or whatever positive answer there was) which led to a blue screen and wouldn’t allow the PC to boot into windows. There was an error message that said something roughly like “cannot load windows”. I got an explanation of what went wrong from people who don’t know much about computers so it’s hard to explain in detail. They did a repair install without me and that led to the problem this post is based on.
Solution:
- Backup data using another PC and format.
Important Tip:
- When you have a catastrophic failure, don’t do a repair install of windows until you’ve tried the recovery console via “Safe Mode with Command Prompt”. Repair installs sometimes won’t work! When you do a repair install, it immediately deletes all restore points so you have no hope but to reformat if the repair install doesn’t work.
Windows XP Resuming Setup Loop
The problem: I have a computer that died from what I think is a virus, but after doing a repair install, it just starts up the XP setup every time it boots instead of windows. It crashes somewhere during the “installing devices” part.
The solution: I booted from the CD and started the repair install again from scratch and it stopped the loop.
The reason: The repair install was started at someone else’s house, with different equipment connected
