Thursday, July 20th, 2006
If your Windows XP takes a very long time to shut down, you can try User Profile Hive Cleanup Service provided by Microsoft (yes, Microsoft). The users at digg claimed that it really helps to shorten shut down time. I remember it took a very long time to shut down before I formatted and reinstall my PC not too long ago.
What will it do to your windows?
The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and applications occasionally maintain connections to registry keys in the user profile after a user logs off. In those cases the user session is prevented from completely ending. This can result in problems when using Roaming User Profiles in a server environment or when using locked profiles as implemented through the Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP.
On Windows 2000 you can benefit from this service if the application event log shows event id 1000 where the message text indicates that the profile is not unloading and that the error is "Access is denied". On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 either event ids 1517 and 1524 indicate the same profile unload problem.
To accomplish this the service monitors for logged off users that still have registry hives loaded. When that happens the service determines which application have handles opened to the hives and releases them. It logs the application name and what registry keys were left open. After this the system finishes unloading the profile.
Note that you are required to have a genuine windows to download it. Besides Windows XP, you can use it on Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows Server 2003 as well.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
.. is really frustrating. I keep getting this message while loading and my gmail still don't load up after hours. The help provided is practically useless!
Loading...
This seems to be taking longer than usual. Your session may have been interrupted. If your account doesn't appear in the next few seconds, please refresh this page in your browser.
If you continue to have trouble loading your account, please visit the help center for troubleshooting information.
After spending hours looking waiting and refreshing it, I still can't access it. Along the way, I also learned that it is not possible to load HTML version directly. You will be redirected automatically if they think you need it.
So, how am I suppose to check my gmail now?!
I go for Gmail Mobile. Though it's working, it's not nice to see all the unformatted text in browser. And, I found the HTML version link at the bottom!
Looking at the link, it's just as easy as adding a 'h' at the back of the typical gmail link.
Go here: HTML version of Gmail
Finally, I can check my gmail. Hope that helps if you had the problem like mine. By the way, if you have alternative ways (besides setting up Outlook), do suggest.
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Have you ever experience that you can’t submit any online form? Each of the sites I visited loaded up correctly but when I submit my login information, it responded with page not found. And this happened when I have an important reservation to be made online, before I go to bed!
I did whatever I can to fix it, but with no success. I tried to restart my router, used IE (instead of Firefox), check windows processes for any unknown application, spend a long time to scan for viruses and finally I called up my friend to see if he’s experiencing the same problem. It seems like I’m the only one with the problem.
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Listen to these hard drive noise wave files (at the very bottom of the page) to diagnose your own hard disk problem when it's making noise. At least, you can talk like an expert when you call for support.
(via LifeHacker)
Friday, December 23rd, 2005
Most of you (WordPress users) must already have enabled the WordPress permalink structure to make it more search engine friendly. If you haven’t, I strongly recommend you to do so.
As for those who have installed, have you ever notice that some of the trackback links (or pingback links) actually uses the old basic link (http://blog.enrii.com/index.php?p=1) rather than the SEO-ed link (http://blog.enrii.com/2005/09/15/hello-world/)?
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