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 CMD console, then start Power Shell pwsh Open an elevated PowerShell console (you may need to run this more than once) 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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