Archive for the ‘Windows’ tag
Quickly Disable Windows Vista’s User Account Control
If Vista’s incessant UAC dialogs begin to annoy you they can be quickly nuked by doing the following…
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Fix Redeployment of Webapps to Tomcat in Windows
I came across an annoying bug today where I was able to deploy a webapp to Tomcat once, but subsequent redeployments resulted in an exception when attempting to write to the server.
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Speed Up Windows Disk Cleanup
Much to the annoyance of almost everyone who’s ever used Windows, it has a nasty habit of requiring a deal of maintenance to keep it running smoothly. While this may be great fun for tinkerers, it becomes a lot less fun once you’ve used operating systems that don’t require constant hand-holding! If you do nothing else, it’s advisable to defragment your hard disk and run disk cleanup on a semi-regular basis.
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