elated ideas or principles.
Came across a very strange error message in Excel 2003 - "Your entry cannot be used. An integer or decimal number may be required" This message appeared whenever I tried changing font size in a cell/sheet or when tried moving from one tab to any other tab in Options window.
Eventually, it turned out that this issue was the result of missing Decimal symbol in Regional Settings. As soon the decimal symbol (.) was restored, this issue was resolved.
Feedburner now offers feeds integration for Blogger.com blogs. Gone are the days when one had to fiddle with the blogger template to replace blogger's default feed source with feedburner's feed link! Just go to the template page now and enter you feedburner feed source. Mind you, this configuration will not replace your default blooger feed source; it'll only redirect that link to feedburner's feed link. Also note that, apparently this configuration redirects only Atom feeds, and not RSS feeds.
This is just the begining of the services users will start to get with feedburner's acquisition by Google. Like, few days ago, feedburner announced two of its previously PRO (paid) services as freely available now - FeedBurner Stats PRO & MyBrand.
When querying for disk space sizes using WMI, it returns the numbers in bytes. These large numbers in bytes do not make much sense until they are converted into Kilobytes (KB), Megabyte (MB), Gigabyte (GB), or Terabyte (TB) and so on. Quite frequently I need to convert these sizes in bytes to KB/MB/GB/TB for better interpretation. I therefore created a quick VBScript function which I call inside VBScript code whenever I need to convert numbers in bytes to KB/MB/GB/TB.
I have been seeing couple of queries in few tech forums for uninstalling Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) 6.0, or how to revert to original version of XP SP2 RDP client (mstsc.exe version 5.1.2600.2180).
RDP 6.0 was released as a patch (KB925876), therefore, by default it doesn't appears as a seperate entry in Add/Remove list. To uninstall it, you'll have to click on the check box of "Show updates" in Add/Remove window, select "Update for Windows XP (KB925876)", and remove it.
Alternatively, you can also browse to the folder C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB925876$\spuninst\ and run spuninst.exe from there, which will uninstall RDP 6.0 client and revert to the older version.
Friday, January 15, 2010
How applications run without using PATH variable
Ever wondered how some applications, for example Winword, Excel, Outlook, start automatically when called from 'Run' window without providing their complete path even though the system PATH variable doesn't have these applications' locations? The answer is in this registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\
So the next time any of the applications do not start without the complete path but you are sure that it exists on the system, check that the registry should have the right information.
Thanks to Mohit Sharma for discovering this info! :)
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\
So the next time any of the applications do not start without the complete path but you are sure that it exists on the system, check that the registry should have the right information.
Thanks to Mohit Sharma for discovering this info! :)
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Strange Errors in Excel
Came across a very strange error message in Excel 2003 - "Your entry cannot be used. An integer or decimal number may be required" This message appeared whenever I tried changing font size in a cell/sheet or when tried moving from one tab to any other tab in Options window.
Eventually, it turned out that this issue was the result of missing Decimal symbol in Regional Settings. As soon the decimal symbol (.) was restored, this issue was resolved.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Feedburner integrated with Blogger.com feeds
Feedburner now offers feeds integration for Blogger.com blogs. Gone are the days when one had to fiddle with the blogger template to replace blogger's default feed source with feedburner's feed link! Just go to the template page now and enter you feedburner feed source. Mind you, this configuration will not replace your default blooger feed source; it'll only redirect that link to feedburner's feed link. Also note that, apparently this configuration redirects only Atom feeds, and not RSS feeds.
This is just the begining of the services users will start to get with feedburner's acquisition by Google. Like, few days ago, feedburner announced two of its previously PRO (paid) services as freely available now - FeedBurner Stats PRO & MyBrand.
Active Directory Explorer v1.0 by Sysinternals
Sysinternals released a new tool for Active Diretory administrators called Active Directory Explorer v1.0
Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can use AD Explorer to easily navigate an AD database, define favorite locations, view object properties and attributes without having to open dialog boxes, edit permissions, view an object's schema, and execute sophisticated searches that you can save and re-execute.Download page: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/adexplorer.mspx
AD Explorer also includes the ability to save snapshots of an AD database for off-line viewing and comparisons. When you load a saved snapshot, you can navigate and explorer it as you would a live database. If you have two snapshots of an AD database you can use AD Explorer's comparison functionality to see what objects, attributes and security permissions changed between them.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
VBScript: Function Code to Convert Bytes to KB/MB/GB/TB
When querying for disk space sizes using WMI, it returns the numbers in bytes. These large numbers in bytes do not make much sense until they are converted into Kilobytes (KB), Megabyte (MB), Gigabyte (GB), or Terabyte (TB) and so on. Quite frequently I need to convert these sizes in bytes to KB/MB/GB/TB for better interpretation. I therefore created a quick VBScript function which I call inside VBScript code whenever I need to convert numbers in bytes to KB/MB/GB/TB.
Function ConvertSize(Size) Do While InStr(Size,",") 'Remove commas from size CommaLocate = InStr(Size,",") Size = Mid(Size,1,CommaLocate - 1) & _ Mid(Size,CommaLocate + 1,Len(Size) - CommaLocate) Loop
Suffix = " Bytes" If Size >= 1024 Then suffix = " KB" If Size >= 1048576 Then suffix = " MB" If Size >= 1073741824 Then suffix = " GB"
If Size >= 1099511627776 Then suffix = " TB" Select Case Suffix Case " KB" Size = Round(Size / 1024, 1) Case " MB" Size = Round(Size / 1048576, 1) Case " GB" Size = Round(Size / 1073741824, 1)
Case " TB" Size = Round(Size / 1099511627776, 1) End Select
ConvertSize = Size & Suffix End Function
Saturday, April 14, 2007
How To Uninstall RDP 6.0
I have been seeing couple of queries in few tech forums for uninstalling Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) 6.0, or how to revert to original version of XP SP2 RDP client (mstsc.exe version 5.1.2600.2180).
RDP 6.0 was released as a patch (KB925876), therefore, by default it doesn't appears as a seperate entry in Add/Remove list. To uninstall it, you'll have to click on the check box of "Show updates" in Add/Remove window, select "Update for Windows XP (KB925876)", and remove it.
Alternatively, you can also browse to the folder C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB925876$\spuninst\ and run spuninst.exe from there, which will uninstall RDP 6.0 client and revert to the older version.
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