3CX 11 Fails to Start after Build 30295 Update
Today I installed 3CX version 11 with SP4 on a new, virtualized Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. The installer downloaded and installed the Visual C++ 2010 SP1 x64 redistributable. The …
Windows Update Operation 4913 of 11629
Usually Windows Updates shows you a percentage complete as the machine is rebooting. Yesterday for some reason, on one Windows 7 machine, I got a count of the “operations”: The …
Aspire R11 R3-131T and the 32GB Limit
Recently I purchased an Acer Aspire R3-131T-C28S from Walmart. I wanted to see how far I could get with a $199 computer. The answer? Pretty far, but not far enough. …
HitmanPro.Alert Crashes Windows 10 Upgrade
I was running HitmanPro.Alert 2.6.5.77 on a domain-joined Windows 8.1 Pro laptop. When I tried to upgrade to Windows 10 (using the online update or a USB key), it repeatedly …
Open Word 5 File in Word 2013
I have some Microsoft Word 5 files from 1990 that were not opening properly in Word 2013. I could see some text but not all, and the formatting was wrong. …
Changing the Passenger Standalone Log Level
I’m trying to debug an issue with Passenger Standalone 4.0.53 and had a hard time figuring out how to increase the log level. It turns out you have to create …
Configure WordPress on OpenShift without Git: Part 2
In the Part 1 of this article, I explained how to set up an “empty” PHP app on OpenShift and how to connect to it using Putty, WinSCP, and FileZilla. …
Configure WordPress on OpenShift without Git: Part 1
I wanted to move a WordPress site from a shared host to a OpenShift, the PaaS offering from RedHat. This should be a faster setup since the OpenShift gears will …
PowerShell Command to List Users and Password Expiration Dates
Here from TechNet is a quick PowerShell script to list enabled Active Directory Accounts and their password expiration dates:
PowerShell Script to Change Windows Update Settings
I’ve already posted a script to show Windows Update settings. What if you want to change the settings? In particular, I needed to be able to use MAXfocus Site Automated …