So you need to restore a MySQL database from the files which were on a server and don’t have a proper SQL dump which you can just easily import, d’oh! Below is a brief example from a WAMP server of how this can be done. Before starting you should stop the WAMP services, or at least restart the services when prompted to start them. On the old server instance navigate to the MySQL data folder by default this should look something similar to “C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.53\data\” … Continue reading →

Microsoft Outlook generates and maintains a nickname list that is used by both the automatic name checking and the automatic completion features. If the autocomplete cache is corrupted, Outlook may be unable to recognise recipients, offer incorrect recipients when automatically completing the e-mail address, send the message to the wrong person or not send the message at all replying with an instant bounce back “None of your e-mail accounts could send to this recipient”. Unlike earlier versions of Outlook that … Continue reading →

Like me, you may have run into the problem that when you go to Start > Run and type in “cmd”, you are getting prompted with an “Open With” dialog which is asking what program you would like to open cmd with. This problem can occur when there is another file named CMD on your system, typically in your profile folder. To help locate the rouge file causing the issue you can run the following command in the Run dialog … Continue reading →

Mobile browsers often have no scroll bars or resize buttons, instead the user pans around a webpage by moving their finger across the screen and zooms by double-tapping or pinching the screen. The way users interact with web content on the desktop and mobile are not the same. The viewport on a desktop is the visible area of the webpage, the user resizes the viewport by resizing the window. If the webpage is larger than the viewport, then the user … Continue reading →

To save yourself the manual work of installing printers on client pc you could write a short bit of code to get this to happen automatically on login, with the use of a simple VBScript, particularly useful in a large company or organisation such as a school where there could be 100′s of PCs to setup. The process will consist of 2 stages. Firstly we want to run the VBScript on login. If you already use a login bat on … Continue reading →