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TIP: How to uninstall IE8

March 9, 2008Main

If, like me, you rushed out and installed Internet Explorer 8 last week, then you may, like me again, be regretting it.

IE8 has been slow, unstable and ugly. By ugly I mean that most of the sites I viewed looked really bad (or didn't render at all). The price of progress you may say? After [...]

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TIP: Problems with hidden Adobe download install files

February 9, 2008Main

PROBLEM: Adobe Download Manager hides files on your hard disk. As a result your install doesn't work, and further you can't find the hidden files to delete them.

SOLUTION: Find the hidden files underneath the \Temporary Internet Files\ directory

DETAILS:

If you've downloaded an Adobe product lately using their Download Manager you might have got frustrated because you [...]

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CLARITY: SharePoint – WSS versus MOSS

November 26, 2007Clarity

There's still plenty of confusion out there about SharePoint, particularly around what is included in WSS versus MOSS. Part of the problem is that there is soooo much information about SharePoint that the simple details get lost…

So, let's go through the various options, comparing WSS with MOSS Standard and MOSS Enterprise as simply as possible. [...]

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COMMUNITY: Are events worth the cost?

October 24, 2007Community

Q: Is it worth going to community events like SQL Code Camp?

A: Yes – read on for explanation…

SQL Code Camp 13-14 October 2007

When considering any developer event these days it is important to calculate whether you are getting good value. With so much content available online, we need to evaluate the costs (financial, comfort, time [...]

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SHAREPOINT: Beginner’s guide

July 31, 2007Popular

A few Fox people have asked me lately about SharePoint, and how to get started with it. This might seem strange given how much push it is getting from Microsoft, but perhaps this is another case of having tooooo much information to sift through. Sometimes it can be too overwhelming.

(Note: I am not a SharePoint [...]

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VPC: Mouse issues running W2K3 under Virtual PC 2007

May 23, 2007Microsoft

Solution: Set Hardware Acceleration to Full

Problem: My mouse movement was really sluggish in a VPC running Windows 2003 R2 (but other OSes are fine)

Acknowledgement: Thanks to Paul Adare on the Microsoft Newsgroup for sorting this one out

Here's the steps:

Right click on Desktop, select Display Properties

Settings Tab

Advanced Button

Troubleshoot Tab

Slide the Hardware Acceleration tab to Full

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VFP: How to make Visual FoxPro cool

May 2, 2006Popular

VFP: How to make Visual FoxPro cool

In case you hadn't noticed, Visual FoxPro (VFP) is not very 'cool'. In this post my aim is to cover 3 areas:

1. Why VFP isn't cool
2. Why it matters
3. How we can make VFP cool

1. Why VFP isn't cool
OK, so the first thing we need to agree on is [...]

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