To understand how undeleting a file in Windows would work and the odds of success, it is helpful to know how a file is deleted. Say you have a file on your hard drive. It could be a text file or a bitmap image, anything like that. Your file is allocating a certain amount of space on your hard drive, a physical location on the disk. The operating system (Windows) points to this … [Read more...]
Trojan Dangerous Virus
"System Error! Your system is infected with dangerous virus! Note: Strongly recommended to install antispyware program to clean your system and avoid total crash of your computer! Click OK to download the antispyware(recommended)" This error message would pop up any time a user was browsing with IE or going through My Computer at random folders it would pop up. Clicking … [Read more...]
Ultra VNC and the invisible Office 2007 Office Button
When using VNC to remote control a machine with Office 2007 you may notice that the Office Button menu (top-left corner, main menu) does not display when using VNC. I gather this is because the menu is rendered with layered menus. If you click where the menu should be the machine responds properly, such as opening the 'Save As...' window, the 'Open...' window, etc. The menu … [Read more...]
GreenPrint – Environmentally conscious printing
The paperless office is another one of those future promises that has yet to be delivered, just like the flying car. Enter GreenPrint. It's not the paperless office, but it's a step closer and a step in the right direction towards protecting our environment from the over-abundance of paper use and far too convenient 'Print' button. It also saves toner, protecting your wallet … [Read more...]
WiX
WiX does work with Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Download one of the latest weekly releases here. The latest SourceForge version available will give a message about requiring Visual Studio standard or professional, but will not work with the Express version. The weekly release, linked above, resolves this error message. I have WiX installed with Visual Studio 2008 … [Read more...]