Bart’s Blog

You might experience some problems offering remote assistance on Windows XP when you installed IE7 (RC). Starting remote assistance results in errors:“Remote Assistance Failed. Please try again”.“A program has stopped responding. Please restart the program and try again”. After browsing some support forums I came across following workaround: Create a shortcut with following URL: hcp://cn=microsoft corporation,l=redmond,s=washington,c=us/Remote [...]

As I wrote before, my webserver was running as a virtual server instance on the free VMWare Virtualserver. Meanwhile Microsoft also offers its Virtualserver solution (MS Virtualserver 2005 R2) for free and most of my test machines are installed via MS Virtualserver. Now I also wanted to run my webserver as a MS Virtualserver instance and I [...]

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Windows live safety center is a free service designed to help protect and improve the performance of your PC. Try this tool if you want a free online virus and protection scan. http://safety.live.com/

The new beta release of Microsoft’s antispyware solution is now called Windows Defender. Improvements: Improved detection and removal. Redesigned and simplified user interface. Protection features for all users (whether they have administrator-level privileges or not). Definition updates delivered through Automatic Updates. Voting network statistics. More info on: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

After cleaning a family member ‘s pc from a bunch a spyware I had some problems getting Microsoft Update (or Windows Update) to install new updates. The workstation also had some problems starting up MS Antispyware (critical error). Windows update reported following error when trying to install a new update (the download succeeded): “A problem [...]

Keep fighting malware and spyware to prevent bandwidth waste and to improve system and employee performance: Microsoft antispyware beta (No charge) Lavasoft Ad-Aware (No charge) Spybot Search & Destroy (S&D) (No charge ) See also: a previous blog post about malware control.

The HOSTS file is a simple text file on your Windows machine that is used to perform name resolution to IP addresses. This happens before the DNS name resolution. If the HOSTS file can resolve a given domain name then DNS will not be used. With that in mind the HOSTS file can be used [...]

My apologies: During my leave for MS ITForum, my home hosted website got disconnected from the internet several times (on 16/11 and 17/11). This was not a webserver related issue. The explanation from my ISP (EDPNet): Yesterday’s and today’s disconnections are caused by a general failure on the Broba II ADSL network in the Brussels [...]

When you browse to a web page that offers RSS feeds, IE7 will notify you with the orange icon lightening up (RSS autodiscovery): Clicking the icon wil show you a list of all available feeds. Since I’m testing IE7 in beta I wanted to add this functionality to my own page. To enable your site [...]