After upgrading my server with the latest patch, one of the problems was that my ASP.NET website properties was greyed out. I was unable to change 1.1 to 2.0.

The simple fix on sub directories is:

go into IIS -> Right Clicking on the sub-directory in question and selecting Properties -> clicking on the directory tab -> Clicking Create under the application settings section. You will then be able to change the ASP NET version on the sub-directory.

To ge the whole site into 2.0, i just recreated the site.

Thanks to the EeePC and other laptops in the up-and-coming ultra portable mobile laptop market, Microsoft has reconsidered its deadline to phase out Windows XP this coming June. It looks like Windows XP will be here to stay… until 2010 at least. Microsoft said that they will continue to sell Windows XP Home Edition until a year after Windows 7, Vista’s successor, gets released, which could mean that Windows XP might be around until 2012 if all goes according to plan.

If you didn’t want to change other users’ passwords on Windows using the method covered in this post because it would have been too obvious, there is a better more subtle way to do it with some good old password cracking software. Now assuming you actually have an account on the computer that you’re going to infiltrate like the hack in the previous post requires, password cracking is a simple matter of installing the right tool: and that would be ophcrack, a freeware, open source password cracker. Read more »

A Home Theater PC, or HTPC, is a computer used to watch movies, television, or other video in a home entertainment setting, usually connected to a television and home theater receiver.

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Ever plug in a 21-in-1 USB flash card reader with a couple of USB external hard drives and USB drives? I do. And when I do, I get a whole mess of random drive letter assignments. My USB flash card reader alone gives me four drives, and the hard drives add another two. Add the fact that I have internal hard drives and two optical drives and the letter assignment starts from H: on Windows. I mean H:??? Who can remember anything past E:??? Well I got fed up and found this awesome hack to always map each USB drive to a particular folder regardless of what order I plugged it in. This hack requires no external software and can be done completely through Windows. Read more »

For the 12 year anniversay, Electronic Arts has released the classic Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn RTS (real time strategy) game for free online.

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Simple way to change other user passwords with limited accounts on Windows XP home or Pro.
1. Go to the Start Menu
2. Hit “Run”
3. Type in “cmd” (This will take you to the windows command prompt)
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Linux users out there are probably accustomed to the wonderful virtual desktop support in their desktop environments but Windows users don’t get to enjoy this luxury. In my past efforts to Linux-ize Windows, I’ve tried using a few virtual desktop tools before… all of which get immediately uninstalled by the next day. If you’re familiar with Power Toys, there’s a virtual desktop tool that you can use, but it’s super buggy and just isn’t very slick. I’ve also tried the virtual desktop tool that came with my ATI graphics card software, and it screws your taskbar order, as well as the application ordering on the screen. Neither of these virtual desktop tools have the seamless integration found in GNOME or KDE. Read more »

In an earlier post we discussed a few registry hacks to speed up your Windows shutdown sequence. Today we’re going to talk about how to fix Windows XP if your shutdown is broken. If this has ever happened to you, it’s because some programs don’t release their Windows registry connections when you log off, causing the shutdown time to increase and sometimes causing problems when you try to log on to a different machine on the same network. There’s a great free program called User Profile Hive Cleanup Service (it will require you to validate your Windows copy) that fixes these problems. Read more »

To keep the introduction short, Microsoft denies that booting Windows off a USB drive works.

See this page for example. It says:

Q: Can a USB storage device be the primary (and only) means of storage?
No. USB-based mass storage devices cannot be the primary hard disk storage solution on a regular system … Read more »