Tuesday, March 29, 2011

http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2004/02/19/the-4gb-windows-memory-limit-what-does-it-really-mean.aspx

Friday, March 25, 2011

Moving your iTunes music from a PC to a Mac

Moving your iTunes music from a PC to a Mac

Source:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/ipod-hardware-accessories/49001-how-i-moved-my-itunes-library-pc-mac.html

Posted by: llarrea

Setup:
Latest iTunes Software and iPod" (or iPhone) "update"
My iTunes music was on a removable USB 250GB drive

Steps:
1. Copied iTunes Library.itl, iTunes Music Library.xml and iPod Games Library from MyDocuments\My Music\iTunes to username\Music\iTunes on my Mac
2. Removed the .itl extension from the iTunes Library file
3. At this point you have two options (either leave the music on the removable drive or move it to a folder in the new Mac) I decided to move it to a folder on my new iMac
4. Open iTunes
5. iTunes should open and you should be seeing your library, but with all the songs with the ! sign next to them. This means that iTunes cannot find those songs in the folder they are supposed to be (your PC's path were they were before you moved them). So you need to go to iPod Preferences and under the Advance tab modified the Library location so that it points to the folder where you placed the files on your Mac
6. iTunes will now show a "Updating Library" message while it looks for and finds all your music in it's new folder

At this point I was wondering how should I move my games or if the where already moved along with my music. I looked for answers but found none, so I went ahead and plugged my iPod to my Mac

To my surprise, iTunes gave me a message indicating that there were purchased songs on my iPod that were not on my Library and asked me if I wanted to copy them to my iMac. I replied Yes and everything worked OK: music and games...


Before you try the steps above, you may want to make sure you have your music organized as the site below suggests.

My First Mac - dot come - article




Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Windows 7 and Server 2008 fatal error installing SP1

Stephen K.

If you get a fatal error during the boot up after an SP1 update try the following. Took me forever to get this to work… Probably should save this, and Ron you can put it on your blog :) = [Done :)]


This method works without Safe Mode, without backups, without System Restore, without DISM, and without a Windows 7 DVD repair disc.
INSTRUCTIONS:

01. Reboot your computer while it’s starting up.
02. When your computer starts up again, choose the option “Launch Startup Repair”
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03. When the Startup repair starts, click cancel.
04. After you click cancel it will show a box. Click “Don’t Send”
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05. Click the link “View advanced options for recovery and support”
06. In the new window click Command Prompt at the bottom.
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07. In Command Prompt type this and press enter: %windir%\system32\notepad.exe
08. Notepad will open. In notepad go to File–>Open.
09. Change the type of files notepad views from .txt to All Files (see pic)
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10. Now in Notepad, go to C:\Windows\winsxs\ (or whichever drive Windows is installed on)
11. In that folder, find pending.xml and make a copy of it
12. Now open the original pending.xml (it will load really slow because the file is huge)
13. Press CNTRL+F and search for the following exactly: 0000000000000000.cdf-ms
14. Delete the following text (yours will be a little different):



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Your PC might not have all 3 sections of code (, , ). Just make sure you delete section “Checkpoint” and whatever other sections have “000000000000000.cdf-ms”. They will be right next to eachother.
15. Save the file, close notepad, close command prompt, restart your computer.
Once your computer starts up, do a normal startup (it may stall for 5-10 minutes at the “starting windows” screen, but leave it going) and the Service Pack will install some more stuff and restart a few times and then everything should be working! For some people, it reverts everything and cancels the service pack installation. For other people, the service pack installation completes. Either result is fine.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Limit E-Mail message size - per E-Mail - Exchange 2010

For Exchange Administrators or those who have access to their Exchange server with Administrator Permissions:

Set Global E-Mail size (per E-Mail not Mailbox size limit) by going to:


Microsoft Exchange > Organizational Configuration > Hub Transport > Global Settings > Transport Settings > Properties



Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Firefox BookMarks- Backup and Restore

I recently lost my bookmarks for Firefox fortunately they are easy to restore.
You may want to back them up and save on a CD, DVD thumbdrive, other computer etc.

Firefox automatically backs up your Bookmarks but you can back them up manually to wherever you want on your computer by going to:

Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks > Import & Backup - and choose Backup.
Browse to your documents or wherever you would like them to be backed up.

To restore them, go through the same procedure but instead of selecting backup, choose
restore, and select the date you want them restored from.

Firefox saves the file as a .json file which is the default format that Firefox uses.
You can also export them as HTML which will allow you to import them into another browser, also usable through Firefox if you prefer.