Some Notes on the Machines

These folks:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

are offering an applet called “ProduKey”, which recovers keys for Office 2010, Windows 7, and lots of other things.

This morning for the first time, I found that AVG exceptions for StorageCraft files are required.  I’m excepting *.spi, *.spf, and *.spk.

For some reason, StorageCraft ShadowProtect 4.0 often comes bundled with ImageManager 3.  For the non-Enterprise ImageManager 4, go here:

http://www.storagecraft.com/downloads/imedownload.php

Here is a valid command line:

gswin32c -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=output.tif input.pdf -c quit

A good place to get Ghostscript for Windows is here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/

There are quite a few posts containing this information on the WWW now, I’m not sure to whom deserves credit.  Go to Tools/Options/General, Memory section, and:

Number of steps: 30
Use for Open Office: 128
Memory per Object: 20
Number of Objects: 20

Recently, a Windows 7 PC was experiencing reboots right in the middle, no warning, no errors.  A large CAD package with its own built-in Explorer analogue was kept running all the time.  I finally turned off Offline Files on the PC:  under 7, it turns out that offline files is default turned on for everyone, and every five minutes it checks to see if the network has become slow.  Apparently this detection is faulty, and not only is it faulty, but it can conflict with a file explorer subsystem badly enough to cause a system reboot!

Doug Knox has an excellent collection of fixes:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Just learned this:  in scripted Web applications, there are sometimes incompatibilities between XPSP3 and Adobe Reader 9.  Sometimes both SP3 and Reader 9 have had to be rolled back to previous versions, sometimes just one of the two.

Here are some interesting items, including a good list of registry entries:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218

MSNIM can be done from a web 2.0 client:

http://people.live.com