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If you don't want the Reminders window to pop up for every event, here's how to turn it off completely.

In Outlook 2003, Click the Tools Menu, Options, Other tab, Advanced button and remove the check to
display the reminder.

Note, this is not the same thing as turning off the default reminder for new events.

From http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20041130.htm

Just found two cool Drupal modules. Browscap and Advanced Statistics Settings module. Between the two of them, they filter out search engine robots and your own user(s) activity from the view count on nodes, blogs, etc.

I always suspected that I didn't really have hundreds of people reading my articles, and now I reset the view counts, and I'll see if anybody besides Google and me read my site.

Advanced Statistics Settings doesn't provide new reports, instead, you'll find its settings under Reports - Access Log Settings - Advanced Settings.

Just set up a Terminal Server, and when users of the "domain users" group attempted to log on, they received this error:

Over the last couple of months, I have spent a lot of time trying to improve the performance of file transfers across the LAN. Try as I might, I could not isolate the bottleneck. This is on a small network, a large RAID array, plenty of RAM and CPU power, 100 megabit switches. File transfers to and from the file server were topping off at less than 5 megabytes per second, but client-to-client transfers faired better, near 10 MB/s. WHY?!

I was going crazy trying to figure out why rsync would not transfer faster than about 64 or 80 kbps... Turns out, Cygwin, the linux 'emulator' that allows rsync to run in Windows, is probably the culprit. Check out the last post on this thread.

The freeware system utility CCLeaner has dramatically improved system responsiveness and overall performance for a couple of desktop PCs that I administer. I saw the option to clean "Old Prefetch data" under the Advanced menu. According to this link, there is never a need to clean Windows' prefetch data, and in fact, doing so will temporarily reduce system performance.

If you want to use WDS on your WRT54g router, or other OpenWRT Kamikaze router, you MUST use the 2.4 broadcom version. If you do not see the WDS mode as an option in your wireless radio settings, double check that you are not running the 2.6 version of OpenWRT. The 2.6 version of OpenWRT Kamikaze is not yet compatible with WDS.

It's easy to create one of those really cool "tag clouds" in drupal 6.

I needed to watch a directory for incoming files, then rename the files sequentially and move them. Here's how I did it.

 int i

for i = 1 to 10000
    strComputer = "."

    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

    Set colFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From CIM_DataFile Where Path = '\\scripts\\' and Extension = 'pdf'")

To extract files from an MSI package, run this in a command prompt:

msiexec /a setup.msi /qb targetdir=c:\target_dir