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Exclude categories from sidebar in WordPress 2.6

Lancelhoff — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:57:11 +0000

How to Exclude specific categories from being displayed in the sidebar in WordPress 2.6. In the following simple solution, I show you How to keep select categories from displaying in your sidebar on your WordPress pages and posts. This is very useful if you have a lot of categories, or have changed the content of [...]

How to remove Ultimate Tag Warrior MySQL Tables

Lancelhoff — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:30:52 +0000

Ultimate Tag Warrior is pretty much obsolete (at least if your using the latest WordPress version). However, if you used to use UTW, and have since migrated to another tagging system such as the WordPress default tagging system or Simple Tags, you may want to completely remove the old Ultimate Tag Warrior tagging structure from [...]

Integrating Highslide with WordPress Nextgen Gallery

Lancelhoff — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:48:19 +0000

Getting Highslide Working with Nextgen Gallery for WordPress is not complicated. Highslide is even supported by NextGen Gallery. However, the support in NextGen Gallery will only get the basic functions of Highslide to work. By default, the Highslide controlbar navigation and captions do not work when used in conjunction with NextGen Gallery. To get the Highslide [...]

Fixing the Operation Aborted error when using the Lightbox WordPress Plugin

Lancelhoff — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:17:05 +0000

The following tutorial explains how to fix the "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site. Operation Aborted" error that is often encountered just after implementing either the Lightbox, Lightbox 2, Thickbox or Slimbox WordPress plugins. This problem effects Internet Explorer only and causes the page to partially load and then ultimately crash, resulting in an [...]

Freeze a clicking hard drive to recover data

Lancelhoff — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:12:25 +0000

Freeze your hard drive to recover data: Recovering data from a clicking hard drive can be a touch and go task. In most cases, a clicking hard drive signifies that the drive is stuck in seek mode and is a sign that your drive is failing. In most cases, if the clicking hard drive contains [...]

WordPress - Set the maximum width of an uploaded image

Lancelhoff — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:48:11 +0000

In the following tutorial, I show you how to change the maximum size of an uploaded image in WordPress 2.5 and beyond. By default, when you upload an image in WordPress using the "full size" image option, the image is automatically resized to a maximum width of 500px. This works fine in most cases, [...]

How to make Windows Vista admin account act like XP

Lancelhoff — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:22:47 +0000

How to make your Windows Vista administrative account act like an XP admin account: As we all know, with the introduction of Windows Vista has come the inclusion of many new security features. We might even consider some of these features overkill. If you are using good real time protection antivirus software and real [...]

Disabling UAC (User Account Control) prompt in Vista

Lancelhoff — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:33:42 +0000

If you've used Windows Vista for any great amount of time, you have most likely seen UAC (User Account Control). UAC is that annoying, nagging, "Windows Needs your permission to continue" popup window that seems to appear whenever you attempt to run just about any program. The UAC prompt typically occurs when attempting to run [...]

How to totally uninstall Windows Messenger

Lancelhoff — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:46:52 +0000

How to uninstall Windows Messenger: There are four different Messenger applications available from Microsoft. "Windows Messenger", "MSN Messenger", "Windows Live Messenger" and the "Messenger Service". In the following tutorial, I'll show you how to remove any one of the them from your computer. Those who have installed MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger might want [...]

Microsoft Messenger keeps logging me off

Lancelhoff — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:35:12 +0000

If your having issues with Microsoft Messenger logging you off constantly, your not alone. I have personally encountered this issue on many occasions. Knowing that I have a solid wired internet connection with plenty of bandwidth and my firewall and router were not blocking the Microsoft Messenger service, I knew the problem had to be [...]

How to find the MAC address of a PC or device on the LAN

Lancelhoff — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:11:00 +0000

How to find the MAC address of a PC or device on the LAN: Have you ever needed to find the MAC address of a computer or device connected to your network? Finding the MAC address of a PC or or device on your LAN is easy if you know at least the IP address [...]

Microsoft Windows Updates fail to install

Lancelhoff — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:17:54 +0000

Microsoft Windows Update failure: Are you having problems getting your Microsoft Windows Updates downloaded, are the Updates repeatedly failing to install? Recently after having upgraded to Serice Pack 3 for Windows XP, we had experienced the same issue. It appeared that the updates would continually fail to install on this particular machine. We tried stopping [...]

BitDefender Real-time protection is unavailable

Lancelhoff — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:52:22 +0000

BitDefender Real-time protection is unavailable problem: BitDefender Total Security 2008 is one of the best antivirus solutions available. However, just like any antivirus software can have it's hiccups. Recently, I have encountered one such hiccup. One day upon logging in to my work PC, I had noticed that my BitDefender antivirus Real-time protection and Firewall [...]

Make Windows see any USB flash drive as local disk

Lancelhoff — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:49:43 +0000

How to make Windows XP see any USB flash drive as a local disk rather than a removable disk: By default a USB flash drive is detected by Windows XP as a removable disk. This poses a couple of limitations. You cannot setup or create multiple partitions on a removable disk from Windows [...]

An interesting viewpoint on Terrorism

Lancelhoff — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:05:29 +0000

An interesting viewpoint on terrorism: Let me start by stating that I do not prefer to discuss politics. This is mainly because I am open minded enough to find reason in just about every point of view. After all, there must be some reason behind a particular point of view otherwise it wouldn't be worth [...]