Tooltip: Clover2 – Windows Explorer Tabs!

Came across a great application that gives you a multi-tabbed Explorer experience. First read about this from a LifeHacker post. Note:  I am running this on Windows 8 and noticed that if you have Explorer pinned, open it up and then create a new tab and minimize Explorer, when you activate it again, it adds a new tab to the end.  I haven't tested, but you can probably unpin Explorer to work around this or find the setting in the registry to disable open last folder.  If I figure it out, I'll update Continue reading →

MS-DOS 6.22 Screenshots

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Windows 8 Power User Shortcut Menu

You can access the Windows 8 Power User Shortcut Menu by moving mouse to lower left corner of screen and right-clicking.
Here's the menu:

Here's a video demonstration of accessing this menu:
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Hardware Monitoring on This Host is Not Responding

I received the following error this morning on my vCenter server after a brief reboot for a few Windows updates:
Hardware Monitoring on This Host is Not Responding
This error is generated when I click on the Hardware Status tab on each Host. I went to Plugins -> Manage Plugins disabled and re-enabled to no avail.
Came across this post at VMware Communities:
Looked at half the suggestions and came to one indicating to restart the VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices.
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Winamp issue playing Shoutcast stream in Windows 8

The Problem
I can't play my Jazz! I found after installing Winamp in Windows 8 that it appears the Shoutcast browser control isn't handling (what I think to be) a lightbox advertisement and it prevents you from playing the stream.
[stextbox id="info" caption="Update" collapsing="false" collapsed="false"]I have installed IE10 on a Windows 7 system to confirm if it was specific to IE10 and after installing IE10, Winamp indeed reproduces the "black screen" advertisement problem... The workaround, however, Continue reading →