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Hibernate Windows 7 and Vista

Hibernate Windows 7 and Vista

In Windows 7 or Vista, if you want to enable hibernation you can do the following:    Drop to a cmd prompt as administrator, and type: powercfg  -h    on after a reboot you can edit the hibernation settings from the advanced plan settings of the power control panel...
Microsoft Support Scam

Microsoft Support Scam

You receive a call from a weird number, and are greeted with someone with an Indian accent.  They ask you to hit WINDOWS+R to bring up the RUN box, and type in www.support.me, or ask you to type in CMD and then ASSOC and then will read you this number:...
Odd 404 Error with aspx pages

Odd 404 Error with aspx pages

Ran into a situation that took me a little troubleshooting recently where .aspx pages would not show up in a browser, instead would only display a 404 error. Looking in the IIS log I found the following: 127.0.0.1 GET /Default.aspx – 80 – 127.0.0.1 404 2...
MS-DOS is 30 years old today…

MS-DOS is 30 years old today…

Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, Microsoft bought the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000. QDOS, otherwise known as 86-DOS, was designed by SCP to run on the Intel 8086 processor, and was originally...