Posts Tagged ‘windows’

VirtualBox – Disable Date and Time synchronization for a VirtualBox Guest system

Thursday, April 26, 2012 16:24 No Comments

The following command will disable the date/time synchronization for a Guest operating system. Assuming the host is running Windows OS. Open the command prompt. (Run -> cmd) Enter command: C:\Users\User>”c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe” setextradata ENTER_MACHINE_NAME_HERE “VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled” “1″ * Replace ENTER_MACHINE_NAME_HERE with Guest system name * This command will add an extra line to the “C:\Users\User\VirtualBox VMs\MACHINE_NAME\MACHINE_NAME.vbox” file. [...]

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Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image – Windows XP Username and Password

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 20:56 No Comments

Microsoft provides Windows Virtual PC images for download. The virtual images are preinstalled with Internet Explorer 6 and IE7 which web developers can use to test their web sites. Windows XP may request the login username which is not stated on Microsoft’s website. Windows XP username: IE User password: Password1 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575

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WordPress running on IIS and ugly permalinks starting with index.php

Wednesday, November 3, 2010 12:27 No Comments

You may have experienced when running WordPress on IIS that the permalinks have that ugly index.php included. Pretty way: www.mysite.com/2010/11/mypost IIS way: www.mysite.com/index.php/2010/11/mypost By tweaking the .htaccess and using some rewrite rules this can be fixed. (ISAPI_Rewrite required)

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VC++ .net2 application doesn’t run on Windows 2000?

Monday, September 15, 2008 1:59 No Comments

Quite often there is a problem that VC++ applications won’t run on a Windows system that doesn’t have Visual Studio installed. The two most common reasons for that are: – Missing VC++ runtime libraries You can get them directly fromo Microsoft – The application is compiled in “Debug” mode. Some application require to be build [...]

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