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Improve the slow loading time of “SQL Server Management Studio”

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

A while ago our SQL Server Management Studio’s were loading very slow. Until we found following KB article

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555686

It brought down the loading time from one minute to 2 seconds !

Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

A very handy administration pack for windows server 2003 is this one: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c16ae515-c8f4-47ef-a1e4-a8dcbacff8e3&displaylang=en

ASP.NET 2.0 file extensions mappings missing in IIS

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Quick reminder to myself: http://moldenco.blogspot.com/2005/12/installing-iis-after-net-framework.html

It’s a useful post of an ex-colleague of mine which explains what to do in case you have to install IIS after the .NET-framework.

Cleaning up my hard drive – pagefile.sys | hyberfile.sys

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

This week I noticed some big files on my hard drive, namely pagefile.sys and hyberfile.sys. I had noticed them before, but I wasn’t aware of the fact that they could grow so big.

So I did some googling and found out that the pagefile.sys is actually a hidden file that is a key component of the Virtual Memory Management of Windows. The article I found told me that I could also free up some space on my C: drive by moving it to a different partition or even a totally different hard drive. The performance should benefit from this as well. More on how to change those settings can be found in this article: 
http://windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/04/27/pagefile.html .

The other file I noticed was the hyberfile.sys. Just by switching off the hibernation in the power options of Windows XP, I freed up 3GB of space. I was amazed by my ignorance. The article I used was the following: http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/hiberfil-sys-xp.html .

Full XML error: Warning to complete installation, you must install VBScript runtime version 5.6

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Against all odds I found some other people who were also using FullXML (imho the most crappy cms out there, I can’t even open their website properly) .
Well, when I needed to migrate some of these sites to my new Windows Server 2008 version, I got this strange error. Of course the error had nothing to do with the real reason behind it. Thanks to this blogpost I could easily figure out what was wrong:

http://blog.bracewell.org/2006/02/06/fullxml-warning-to-complete-installation-you-must-install-vbscript-runtime-version-56/

As the blogpost says, it were the permissions on the databasefolder that are needed to be set properly. If the cms is not able to write to the specific folders, the error will pop up.

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Google Dashboard

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Finally I’ve got what I needed and it’s called Google dashboard . Now I get all my Google stuff in one place, in stead of having to open a ton of different urls. Maybe that’s also what you’ve been looking for.

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Meta redirect

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Just a quick reminder of how to redirect using a meta tag:

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”2;url=http://thewebsite.com”>

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