Internet Explorer Settings

1. Tools > Internet Options > Locate the Settings button under Tabs in the General tab of the configuration window.
UNCHECK the option “Show previews for individual tabs in the taskbar” to disable the feature in the Internet Explorer web browser.

2. Tools > Internet Options > Tabs > Tab Settings
CHOOSE – When a new tab is opened — Open Your First Homepage

 

Building a Windows 7 PC

 

–A) To most easily move all user files and user program files off your boot drive (an SSD in my case), follow these instructions.

FIRST, Create a restore point:
1. Open System by clicking the Start button, right-clicking Computer, and then clicking Properties.
2. In the left pane, click System protection. If you’re prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
3. Click the System Protection tab, and then click Create.
4. In the System Protection dialog box, type a description, and then click Create.

THEN: Go to System Recovery/Command Prompt:
Boot with the Win7 Install DVD, choose language, currency and keyboard, and hit Next.
At the screen with the “Install Now” choose “Repair your computer”
You will be asked if you want to “Repair and Restart” by the System Recovery options, choose “No”.
Then Make sure that Windows 7 is listed as one of the installed OS’s available for recovery, and that it’s selected and then press next.
You will be given a list of recovery tools.
Choose “Command Prompt”.

Find your virtual Windows drive loaded from the Win7 media (probably either C or X), find your actual Windows/SSD drive (D or E) and find your HDD (regular hard drive) (D or E).

In my system normally, C=SSD with Windows on it, D=HDD data drive

Using Win7 Update media, the drives in Recovery mode were set up differently, thusly:
X: virtual/temp Windows drive,
E: actual Windows/SSD drive,
D: HDD, hard drive I wanted to put \Users on.

Some report that System Recovery mode will set up their drives like this:
C: virtual/temp Windows drive
D: Actual Windows/SSD drive
E: HDD, they want to put /Users on.

In the command prompt you will be using Robocopy (NOT xcopy!) to copy c:\Users to d:\Users, then delete the old c:\Users, then make a symlink from c:\Users to D:\Users. Note that you must do these things in order, and you must not have a d:\Users dir before you do this.

NOTE: in the system recovery command prompt window, your drives are not the same as they will be after you leave recovery mode! So adjust the commands below for how the drives are in Recovery Mode, and then they’ll turn out correct later.

I used:
robocopy /mir /xj E:\Users D:\Users

To move /Users from Windows/SSD to HDD.
  /mir tells robocopy to mirror the directories, this will copy all files and permissions.
  /xj is very important, this tells robocopy not to follow junction points. If you forget this, you will have a lot of trouble.
Make sure no files failed to copy (FAILED column = 0).

Then you must remove the old Users Folder from the Windows/SSD (c:) drive, before you can create the symlink:
I used:
rmdir /S /Q E:\Users

Create a NTFS Junction/symlink that points to the new Users folder:

I used:
mklink /J E:\Users D:\Users

Use the /J switch to create a junction that’s a hard symlink. (If you use the /D switch, you’ll also have to edit the registry, cuz it won’t be a hard link.) Using /J, when Windows looks for the C:\Users dir, it will find it! But it will be on the HDD instead of the SSD. Tricky!

To see the proof of what you’ve created, still in the command prompt window, go into the actual Windows/SSD and do the “dir” command, and you’ll see:
” Users [D:\Users]”

Now restart and you’ll see /Users on your HDD, and there you go. No further configuration or fiddling required. New user profiles will all be stored on the d: drive, as will any user specific data. And it is achievable without any messing about in the registry, searching and replacing values, or having to mess with new profiles in any way. Totally set and forget.

–B)

Transfer files from another computer

“Execute access is denied” error message connecting to new Web site

Here's a quick IIS Setup list of steps for a new web site. Maybe that's why you got the error.

Something I always forget the steps, and the order is critical. 

  1. Create your new local asp.net website
  2. From windows explorer make the website source directory and its sub directories Read Write by setting the properties.
  3. Copy these web site folders and files to the isp provider web folder.
  4. Open up the IIS wizard and create new site. Point to the web folder.
  5. For IP address and port settings (default and 80 for me) add multiple host header values (e.g. www.mywebsite.net mywebsite.net etc.) to match your DNS values.

 

WD Anywhere Backup – How to quit MAC OSX 10.4

MAC is prevented from shutting down by this application after installing.

Simply Force Quit the first time. Maybe even before creating a backup plan as I think it is lost. (It came back, but by then I'd had to create another.)

The next time you boot and create a plan, the application will have enabled the Quit application file menu item.  

I didn't have this problem in OSX 10.5, and a different version was available.