Author Archives: Stephen Scotter

Windows 7 – Classic Logon Screen

Summary of webpage…Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options… ‘Interactive Login: Do not display last user name’ = Enable’Interactive Login: Do not require Ctrl+Atl+Del’ = Disable Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Logon… ‘Hide entery points for Fast User Switching’ – Enable (I didn’t have this… Read More »

Disable User Account Control(UAC) For Administrators Only

To configure this setting on Windows 7 / Vista Business and Ultimate, you can use the Local Security Policy configuration. Just type in secpol.msc into the Start menu search box and hit enter. Now browse down to Local Policies \ Security Options Find the following in the list: “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation… Read More »

Group Policy administration for Windows 7 in a 2003 Domain

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d Download Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) 1. On a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows 7 with SP1, download the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 with SP1 package from the Microsoft Download Center. 2. Open the folder into which the package downloaded, double-click… Read More »

Sky Broadband Username and Password retrieval

With access to Skys router The DG834GT management interface offers a debug option that enables the embedded Telnet server. To do this, fire up your web browser and enter the following URL (changing the IP address to your router’s address if necessary): http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?todo=debug You’ll be asked for the administration username/password (‘admin’ and ‘password’ on a… Read More »

Stress Test Computers – Prime95

For overclockers, Prime95 has a feature called “Torture Test” that allows maximum stress testing on the CPU and RAM. There are several options allowing the stress test to focus on the memory, processor, or a balance of both. Usually Prime95 will detect an error within a matter of minutes if an overclock is not stable,… Read More »

How to change a licence number in all AVG clients

If you would like to change a license number for all computers in the network, please do the following: Run AVG Admin Console. From the left navigation tree select Licenses -> Shared settings. Double-click “Shared settings” option in the Shared settings area. Fill the new license number and press Enter key. Right-click the “Shared settings”… Read More »

Creating PDFs from PHP

http://www.fpdf.org/ (Used on PTI and JMS) http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/ Never used, but looks interesting.

Category: PHP

WordPress – Increasing maximum upload size

<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot  “/blah/blah/blah” ServerName    www.blahblahblah.net ServerAlias   blahblahblah.net ServerAdmin   webmaster@blahblahblah.net CustomLog     logs/access/www.blahblahblah.net.log combined ErrorLog      logs/error/www.blahblahblah.net.log # if upload_max_filesize and post_max_size are NOT the same WordPress # will set the maximum upload limit to the lower of the two values. # This was the case with WordPress 3.1 on 21st March 2011 php_value      upload_max_filesize 25M php_value     … Read More »

How to Sort a ListView

When you are working with a TListView component and want to sort the items based on a custom criteria, you can use the following idea… Suppose you have assigned numbers for the TListItem Caption property and need to sort the ListView when displayed in a report-style. To use custom sorting handle the OnCompare event. If… Read More »

Talisman : Invalid use of Null

You’ve probably manually copied a workstation record in the SQL database to get around the WORKSTATION NOT REGISTERED message. You need to go into System -> Network -> Workstations, find the new record, open it, save it and it should work.