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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Keyboard-shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts can make it easier to interact with your computer because you don’t need to use the mouse as often.
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If you press SHIFT+F8 in extended selection list boxes, you enable extended selection mode. In this mode, you can use an arrow key to move a cursor without changing the selection. You can press CTRL+SPACEBAR or SHIFT+SPACEBAR to adjust the selection. To cancel extended selection mode, press SHIFT+F8 again. Extended selection mode cancels itself when you move the focus to another control.
After you double-click a character on the grid of characters, you can move through the grid by using the keyboard shortcuts:
Happened to come across this option in the Global Settings for Adobe Flash when I was viewing a video looking for a quality control since my internet connection at home is a meager 768kbps.
Right-click on the flash video and choose Global Options then Advanced. Scroll to the bottom and you’ll see this:
From Adobe (source):
Protected content
Some content on the Internet (such as movies and music) requires that users
first get content licenses from the content provider before playing the content.
These content licenses are automatically downloaded to your computer, for
example, when you rent or purchase protected content. Flash Player saves these
licenses on your computer. Deleting the license files prevents Flash Player from
playing this protected audio or video content, even if the content itself
remains on your computer. This is called deauthorizing your computer. If you
decide to sell, donate, or dispose of your computer, deauthorize it to prevent
unauthorized users from playing protected content later.
Be careful when resetting license files. When you reset license files, Flash
Player resets all existing license files for protected content that plays on
your computer in Flash Player. You cannot access this content from this computer
until you have downloaded new licenses from your content provider.
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After system repair, Windows Activation Wizard won’t run
Find kimsland9 on the page to get to this response:
I was unable to enter safe mode or normal mode without the Activation popup
Why not just give yourself 30 more days of Activation
From Safe Mode or Safe Mode Command Prompt
In the command line enter the following command:rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnkIf it doesn’t work (although has for me every time) you may need to register two files first:
regsvr32 regwizc.dll regsvr32 licdll.dllThen enter the
rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnkagain
Restart, and you have now 30 days to activate online or over the net or just run it again in 30 days (120days max)
This has saved me many times, when a computer just will not activate properly, usually drivers or realtime protection stopping it btw 😉
After this you can then download/re-install Internet Explorer 8 as mentioned (without needing safe-mode):
Download Internet Explorer 8 and Hotfix KB946501,
burn them to disc
Hotfix KB946501 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/946501
Internet Explorer 8 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx
Start your PC and repeatedly hit F8 to get the safe mode menu.
Choose safe mode with command prompt only (if you are unable to enter safe mode otherwise)
When the command prompt appears type “explorer”
Should load the Windows GUI behind the cmd window
Install the KB946501 hotfixfrom your disc(may not need if you’re not multicore)
Install IE8
Rebootnormally in to Windows, you should be able to activate as usual.
Apparently the activation Window is dependant upon IE.
So I have an Informix Dynamic Server (7) and I want to setup a Microsoft Windows ODBC system profile and then connect to it using VBScript.
I will go the easy route and install IConnect 2.90 Informix Driver for Windows.
After installing the driver, I will configure the ODBC connection:
After this is configured, I Apply & Test Connection and it is successful.
Next, I found a piece of VBScript to facilitate a quick check using the my ODBC connection profile; I named this TIGER_v001 for the DSN by the way.
Here’s the VBScript.
Dim objConnection,objRecordset,strSearchCriteria
Const adOpenStatic = 3
Const adLockOptimistic = 3
Const adUseClient = 3
Set objConnection = CreateObject(ADODB.Connection)
Set objRecordset = CreateObject(ADODB.Recordset)
objConnection.Open TIGER_v001
Wscript.echo Connected
objRecordset.Open select * from foo , objConnection, adOpenStatic, adLockOptimistic
If objRecordset.EOF Then
Wscript.Echo Record cannot be found.
Else
Wscript.Echo Record found.
Wscript.echo id -:- &objRecordset(id)
End If
objRecordset.Close
objConnection.Close
If all goes well, the output I receive is 1 since I only have one id in the table ‘foo’.