Your machine was compromised (again!) by malware you caught up somewhere on the web. Sick and tired of it you went looking for a solution and after reading my religious Non-Admin HOWTO you decided to bite the bullet and downgrade yourself to the Users group. To keep all your applications up-to-date you installed Secunia PSI,… Continue reading Running Secunia PSI as non-admin
Category: Windows
XP Service Pack 3 breaks FAST
After slipstreaming Service Pack 3 into my Windows XP Professional CD image, you cannot use FAST (File and Settings Transfer Wizard) to import a backup made with FAST on a XP SP2. Attempting to do so will yield this error: Your migration store was created with a previous version of File and Settings Transfer Wizard.… Continue reading XP Service Pack 3 breaks FAST
Mozilla Marktplaats tralies bug
Sinds jaren bestaat er een bug in de code van Marktplaats.nl, waardoor de boel bij het verwijderen van een advertentie blijft hangen in een soort gevangenis met grijze tralies. Het maakt niet uit wat je doet op de site — uitloggen, inloggen, zoeken, het scherm blijft een traliepatroon. Het enige dat helpt is het venster/tab… Continue reading Mozilla Marktplaats tralies bug
Windows XP for power users
Windows Vista has been released over 18 months ago, and my initial reaction was that this operating system is the most bloated, sluggish crap ever released by Microsoft. Everyone was hoping that Service Pack 1 would relieve some of the pain, but unfortunately Microsoft failed to put any significant performance improvements in. I have come… Continue reading Windows XP for power users