Mike Williams

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Name: Mike Williams
Date registered: 28-Mar-2012

Latest posts

  1. Fix WLM after Windows 10 2004 Update — 06-Oct-2020
  2. Tell both NuGet and TFS to ignore the packages folder — 11-Dec-2015
  3. Completely clear All event logs — 09-Mar-2015
  4. Recursively delete all .svn folders — 09-Mar-2015
  5. Browser Info — 16-Sep-2014

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Oct 06

Fix WLM after Windows 10 2004 Update

Windows Live Mail Error 0X800C013E After Update 2004 – Solved I recently updated my main Windows 10 machine to the latest 2004 feature update and all seemed to go well until I opened my email client, Windows Live Mail (WLM), and was unable to send or receive new messages due to an error marked 0X800C013E. …

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Dec 11

Tell both NuGet and TFS to ignore the packages folder

Here’s the deal: We have to tell both NuGet and TFS to ignore the packages, because NuGet is trying to do source-control related stuff that it absolutely shouldn’t be doing (bad form, Microsoft!). So you have to do two things. First, add a file named .tfignore to the solution folder (note the lack of s …

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Mar 09

Completely clear All event logs

Open an elevated PowerShell console wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {Write-Host “Clearing $_”; wevtutil cl “$_”}

Mar 09

Recursively delete all .svn folders

Direct in CMD Prompt FOR /F “tokens=*” %G IN (‘DIR /B /AD /S *.svn*’) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%G” In Batch file FOR /F “tokens=*” %%G IN (‘DIR /B /AD /S *.svn*’) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%%G”

Sep 16

Browser Info

Chose a browser Browse Happy HTML5 Test here Acid Test here

Sep 15

Enable Hidden Administrator

Enable net user administrator /active:yes Disable net user administrator /active:no

Sep 01

How to enable the F8 key to start Safe Mode in Windows 8

To enable the F8 key in Windows 8; Open an elevated command prompt and enter the following command: bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy   If you would like to disable the F8 key and go back to the original Windows 8 setting; Open an elevated command prompt and enter the following command: bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy …

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Aug 05

Office 2010 Direct Download Links

http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/18-office-2010-direct-download-links    

Aug 05

Take Ownership of Folder and Files

Take Ownership takeown /f {folder} /r /d y icacls {folder} /grant administrators:f /t Prevent S.V.I. from being used on External HDD rmdir “System Volume information” /S /Q echo placeholder > “System Volume Information” Source

Apr 09

BIOS Recovery Keys

Starting a recovery via the BIOS recovery partition usually means that you have to press one of the “F” keys (such as F1-F12) the moment after you hit the power button. These should be: Acer – Alt + F10 Asus – F9 Dell/Alienware – F8 HP – F11 Lenovo – F11 MSI – F3 Samsung …

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