This morning (16.01.2012) a user complained to me that he can’t find Street View in Google Earth anymore. Street View layer simply disappeared. The user was on version 5.2.The reason I left some users users on old 5.2 version, was Google Earth 6.0 memory leak issue in which badly affected some of Windows XP machines.…

Poderosa is an open source terminal emulator. It is a popular alternative to puTTY because of additional features, such as tabbed style interface. Another useful feature is auto-login. It is disabled by default and for a good reason – password are stored in plain text which is obviously not secure. If this doesn’t worry you…

There may be number of reasons why you could bump into such error. In my particular situation this happened after moving physical Windows XP machine to a virtual VMware host. Other reasons could be – upgrading computer hardware, not activating Windows within permitted 30 days period, etc. Annoyingly you are not even allowed to login…

Having problems with print spooling? There is a chance that you have some orphaned files in print spool directory. There should not be any permanent files in this directory. This helped me to resolve some spooling problems on Windows XP and Windows 7 machines (such as print spooling takes very long time, print spooler service…

On Windows XP computers Skype often doesn’t close properly on shutdown prompting “Ending Program… Please wait” dialog.

There maybe number of reasons why you may want to “sleep” in a batch file. Depending on your Operating System there a couple of ways to achieve this. timeout – Windows Vista and Windows 7 In Windows Vista and Windows 7 simply use a buit-in command timeout. For example timeout /T 10 will wait 10…

If you change your network settings quite often, you can save yourself quite a bit of time by creating a simple .bat scripts which allow to set predefined TCP/IP setting with a single click. To change your IP settings via command prompt you can use netsh command.You can run netsh either directly in the command…

Normally Skype for Windows allows only one instance. If you have Skype opened and double click on the Skype shortcut it will simply open the same, old instance. It’s pretty easy to run two or more Skype accounts simultaneously on the same computer. To start a new Skype instance you simply have to run Skype…

I’ve heard this complaint many times – “I am trying to print a page or page range from a word documents and it is printing completely different pages or doesn’t print anything at all.” This problem is almost always caused by a multi-section document with different page numbering in at least one of the sections.

Don’t try to find a button or an option in to insert a blank page into existing PDF file in Nitro PDF v6. This functionality is not implemented. Nitro PDF guys say that there is not enough people requesting this. They may implement it in future releases, but for the time being the workaround is:

You can’t use standard .bat scripts to automate telnet commands. This can be done via a simple VB Script.To create a VBScript, simply create a plain text (.txt) file and change extension to .vbs Following example will connect to a Draytek Vigor router and issue WOL command  to wake up a remote computer. ‘ Open…

I was running TeamViewer v5 on about 100 Windows XP machines for quite a while and never had any problems.  One day some users started reporting pretty serious issue: immediately after users logs on, explorer.exe would crash leaving user with completely blank screen. Re-starting explorer.exe in task manager usually fixed the problem. Obviously not all…