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\” where “mysql5.1.53″ will be the version number of the previously installed MySQL database.

Inside this folder you should see a few files and folders. The folders are the actual MySQL databases, and contain a bunch of .frm files which we will require. You should recognise the folder names as the database names. These folder and all their contents can be copied directly to your MySQL data folder, you can neglect the default databases mysql, performance_schema, test.

If you started the server now you will see the databases are picked up, however the databases will contain none of the tables which were copied across. In order for the contents of the database to be picked up, back in the data folder you should see a file “ibdata1″, this is the data file for tables, copy this directly into the data folder, you should already have a file in your new data folder called “ibdata1″ so you may wish to rename this to “ibdata1.bak” before copying across the “ibdata1″ from the old MySQL data folder.

Once this has been done Restart all the WAMP services. You can use PhpMyAdmin to check if your databases have been successfully restored.

Unlike earlier versions of Outlook that store the nickname cache in a NK2 file on your hard drive, Outlook 2010 stores the nickname cache in your primary message store. If you are using a Microsoft Exchange Server account, your nickname cache is stored in a hidden message in your mailbox. This allows the autocomplete feature to be retrieved from any computer you may use your email from.

If you are receiving the bounce back like the one shown below and your autocomplete cached has become corrupt we can clean it, unlike earlier versions of Outlook simply renaming the autocomplete file won’t fix the issue as the list will be downloaded again next time you open Outlook.

From: System Administrator
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
'name@domain' on 17/09/2011 12:30
None of your e-mail accounts could send to this recipient.

Before clearing the autocomplete cache you may wish to backup the file. The autocomplete file can be found in the following location C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\RoamCache\Stream_Autocomplete*.dat. You can quickly locate this folder by pasting %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook into Windows Explorer or the Run dialog. Now copy and rename this file for safe keeping.

You can now safely clear the autocomplete cache by following one of the methods listed below:

Method 1

• With Outlook 2010 open, click File > Options
• Click the Mail tab
• Under Send Messages, click Empty Auto-Complete List

Outlook will generate a new nickname cache.

Method 2

•     Click Start > Run.
•     Launch Outlook with the clean autocomplete switch – Outlook.exe /CleanAutoCompleteCache

Note If Outlook is not installed in the default location, you must point to the path of Outlook.exe.

Outlook will generate a new nickname cache.

To help locate the rouge file causing the issue you can run the following command in the Run dialog
%comspec% /k dir "%userprofile%\cmd*" /s

This line will open cmd and run the dir command on your profile searching for any files with word “cmd” in their title, and display them accordingly.

Now we want to remove the offending file using the list of files we have just created. You could delete the file, however, I would suggest renaming or moving the file to a alterative location. Using the list navigate to the paths provided rename/move/delete the file in question. You may want to do one file at a time and try entering “cmd” in the Run dialog again to determine which of the files was causing the problem.

When you type a program name into the Run dialog, Windows searches for the file in the following locations and executes the first one it finds:

1. User Profile folder
2. App Paths registry key
3. Folders included in the PATH variable

If you haven’t managed to fix the problem by working through the user profile, you could next try looking through the App Paths with regedit. Enter “regedit” into the Run dialog and then navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths”. We want to delete any key which may have been created for cmd.exe. Warning: you should first backup the registry before making any changes! To do this you can select the key you are going to change, right-click the key and select export, browsing to a location you would like to save the backup. When using regedit don’t delete anything you are unsure of, as you could cause damage to your system.

If you haven’t managed to fix the issue then you have another place we can still check! Go to the PATH environmental variables by right-clicking “Computer” or “My Computer” depending upon your Operating System, select “Advanced System Settings” or “System Properties”, select the “Advanced” tab and press the “Environmental Variables” button. You should see a dialog similar to that of below. Warning: becareful not to delete any part of the PATH as you may cause damage to your system.

PATH Enviromental Variable

Much like the first step we tried earlier you can sift through the different file locations provided in the Path variable and check to see if you can find any stray “cmd” titled files. Again rename/move/delete the offending file, and test “cmd” in the Run diaglog.

Finally if you believe the files appeared on your system without your assistance, then it’s highly recommended that you run a scan for Viruses and Malware. If you have no anti-virus or anti-malware software then you could try using one of the following Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, SUPERAntiSpyware, Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware, Microsoft Security Essentials, Combofix.

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 scrolls to see more of the webpage. When the viewport is resized the web browser may change the document’s layout.

Following Apple Safari’s lead many mobile browsers use the viewport as the area that determines how content is laid out and where text wraps on the webpage. The viewport can be larger or smaller than the visible area.

Using the double tap and pinch gestures, users can change the scale of the viewport but not the size. The only exception is when the user changes from portrait to landscape orientation, under certain circumstances change the webpage layout.

You can set the viewport size and other properties of your webpage, to help improve the presentation of the webpage, with just a single line of meta code in the header of your website.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=0.5,user-scalable=yes" />

In this example code snippet above we have set the content of the website to be equal to the width of the device. The initial scale to 50% and to allow the user to scale the webpage of their own accord.

Typically, you set the viewport width to match your web content. If your webpage is narrower than the default width then set the viewport width to the width of your webpage. E.g. width=720

You can adjust the initial scale of the website, where 1.0 = 100%. You may wish to do this if mobile devices aren’t seeing the entire width of a page or the text is so small it has become unreadable. E.g. initial-scale=0.5

If desired you can prevent the end user the ability to scale the webpage themselves. E.g. user-scalable=no

See below for examples of how the initial scale value effects the presentation of the webpage.

Viewport Default

Viewport Scale 1.0

Viewport Scale 1.5

Viewport Scale 0.5

Other CSS properties worth noting down when developing more mobile friendly sites include the min-width and max-width properties. These properties are useful when dealing with floating elements where you want elements to remain on the same line as one another. Providing enough width for two elements to fit side-by-side without any overlap.

The process will consist of 2 stages. Firstly we want to run the VBScript on login. If you already use a login bat on login to perform tasks such as mapping network drives then you could do this by adding the following line to the login bat file to call the VBScript.

WScript.exe "\\SERVERNAME\SYSVOL\DOMAINNAME\scripts\SCRIPTNAME.vbs"

Where you would replace the SERVERNAME, DOMAINNAME and SCRIPTNAME with your own configuration.

If you don’t run a login.bat then you could set the VBScript to be called in the Active Directory, as shown below. This option is under the profile tab of a users account.

The second stage is the VBScript itself.

On Error Resume Next
Set netPrinter = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
netPrinter.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\SERVERNAME\PRINTERNAME"
netPrinter.SetDefaultPrinter "\\SERVERNAME\PRINTERNAME"

Lets go into a little more detail. The first line pretty much explains itself, if there are any problems the script won’t simply holt but jump onto the next line and attempt to continue running. The second line is creating an object of type WScript.Network. The third line is where you will want to begin tailoring it to your own scenario, this is adding a connection for the printer, here you should add the hostname or IP address of the machine the printer is installed upon, followed by the name of the printer itself. Finally if you are adding multiple printers, using the fourth line of code, you could set which printer you would like to be the default printer.

See the search bar above for an example – this works smoothly in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera. Internet explorer will only display the before and after goal, none of the effects to transition from one stage to another.

To use the effects you must have a before and after goal. In the example below we will set a default width property and a different width property on hover.

The next stage is to add a duration property (-transition-duration) for the effect, the larger the number the slower and more gradual the effect. We can name which properties we would like this transition to affect, separated by commas for multiple properties such as width and background or you can put all to effect all differing properties (-transition-property). Finally set the timing function (-transition-timing-function) to select the type of transition. Unfortunately this will have to be done for each of the main engines.

#search {
-webkit-transition-duration: 600ms;
-webkit-transition-property: width;
-webkit-transition-timing-function: ease;
-moz-transition-duration: 600ms;
-moz-transition-property: width;
-moz-transition-timing-function: ease;
-o-transition-duration: 600ms;
-o-transition-property: width;
-o-transition-timing-function: ease;
width: 50px;
}
#search:hover{
width: 200px;
}

Installing Your Printer Driver

Not a problem. Like a .zip file an .exe is a compressed file containing several other files and whats more we can open an executable, with a program such as 7-zip, to extract individual files. In our case we will want to extract the driver for the printer.

The first task is to locate and download the required driver from the vendors website.

A printer may have various different flavours of Printer Control Language drivers available. It’s important to select the correct driver to prevent issues down the line. Some common types include PCL5, PCL6 and PS.

PCL5 comes in various flavours of Printer Control Languages PCL5 is the oldest printer language, used only in Networks that are UNIX-based. PCL5C are also an older printer language, but written for Colour Printers. PCL5E is the latest release of this printer language and allows for a greater DPI (Dots per Inch). PCL5 may be required for some older applications to print correctly.

PCL6 is a relatively new printer language and is becoming more popular.

PS (PostScript) drivers are used for high quality printing.

After we have downloaded our executable file containing the driver we need the next step is to open the file with 7-zip. You can do this either by launching the software and opening the archive or right-click on your file and select: 7-zip > Open archive.

Extract the .inf file to a location of your choice, I tend to settle for a self-explanatory location such as C:\drivers\printers\ simply encase I want to use the driver again at a later date.

Now select the driver within the windows printer installer and continue your installation

To do this we will create a .bat file using notepad, or your favourite text editor, you can then even go onto automating the execution of this script using the in-built Windows Task Scheduler. I won’t bother going into detail, if you’ve already setup a WAMP server I assume you’re pretty capable with a computer already and the script is only a basic example for you to tailor and play with, but can be a lifesaver in nasty situations!

Open up notepad and write the script as shown below – changing any options to suit your own circumstances.

echo off
cd C:wampbinmysqlmysql5.1.53bin
cls
mysqldump -u user -p password database1_name > C:sql_dumpsdatabase1_name.sql
echo database1 sql dump created
mysqldump -u root database2_name > C:sql_dumpsdatabase2_name.sql
echo database2 sql dump created
echo ——————————–
echo All SQL Database Backups Completed
echo ——————————–
pause

Save the file as backup.bat. This script will now be executable and can be run to backup and take dumps of your databases.

A further look into what each line of the script is doing…

echo off
Turns off command-echoing
cd C:wampbinmysqlmysql5.1.53bin
Change directory to where your mysqldump.exe executable is installed
cls
Clears the screen. The user doesn’t need to see what we’ve been doing yet.
mysqldump -u user -p password database1_name > C:sql_dumpsdatabase1_name.sql
Creates a dump of the database called database1_name to the location C:sql_dumps as a file named database1_name.sql, using the MYSQL account details of username user and password password.
echo database1 sql dump created
Displays a message to say this step has been completed
mysqldump -u root database2_name > C:sql_dumpsdatabase2_name.sql
Creates a second dump for a second database called database2_name to the location C:sql_dumps as a file named database2_name.sql, using the MYSQL root account.
echo database2 sql dump created
Displays a message to say this step has been completed
echo ——————————–
echo All SQL Database Backups Completed
echo ——————————–
Displays a message to say all steps have been completed
pause
Suspends processing of the batch file displaying “Press any key to continue…”. I have simply added a pause to the end of the script to allow the user to see that the script has run and the messages which have been displayed.

Just a quick note you should notice I change directory to where the mysqldump.exe lives, the path for this maybe slightly different for yourself depending on where you placed your WAMP installation. To prevent you from having to take this step you could add the directory to the Windows Enviroment Variables… Path (Right-Click Computer – Advanced system properties), however this is only an optional extra step.

To do this via Command Prompt you can use the “takeown” command.

A simple example would be:

takeown /f test.txt -  which would take ownership of the file test.txt as the current user

In the example below – takeown /f * /r /d y – I have navigated into the parent folder TestFolder to take owner ship of all files and folders (including sub-directories) as the current user, and have specified that I would like to take ownership when prompted.

Takeown Command

You should get a message of success for each object this is carried out upon.

There are several useful arguments which can be used with the “takeown” command as demonstrated above.

/s <Computer> – Specifies the hostname or IP address of a remote computer (do not use backslashes). The default value is the local computer. This parameter applies to all of the files and folders specified in the command.

/u [<Domain>]<User name> – Runs the script with the permissions of the specified user account. The default value is system permissions.

/p [<Password>] – Specifies the password of the user account that is specified in the /u parameter.

/f <File name> – Specifies the file name or directory name pattern. You can use the wildcard character * when specifying the pattern. You can also use the syntax ShareNameFileName.

/a – Gives ownership to the Administrators group instead of the current user.

/r – Performs a recursive operation on all files in the specified directory and subdirectories.

/d {Y | N} – Suppresses the confirmation prompt that is displayed when the current user does not have the “List Folder” permission on a specified directory, and instead uses the specified default value.

Y: Take ownership of the directory.
N: Skip the directory.

Note that you must use this option in conjunction with the /r option.

Note this is only a quick guide for Formatting Drives from Command Line, there are many more options available at your disposal. For a detailed insight to the options available for the DiskPart tool visit Microsofts Technet. In the example I have formatted an external hard drive for use of file storage in a Windows Operating System environment.

In order to format a drive through Command Prompt firstly lets open the prompt.

Click Start > Run and type “CMD”, pressing Enter should open a new terminal.

Start CMD

We need to next start the Disk Part tool, type “DISK PART” into the Command Line and press Enter.

Start Disk Part

Next let’s display and identify which volume we would like to format. Type “list volume” and press Enter. You should see a list of available volumes. Identify the one which you wish to format, be careful selecting the wrong volume will spell disaster!

List Volume

Type “select volume <x>” and press Enter, where <x> is the volume you wish to focus on.

Select Volume

Type “clean” and press Enter. This removes any and all partition or volume formatting from the disk in focus.

Clean

Type “create partition primary” and press Enter. This creates a primary partition on the current disk. After you create the partition, the focus automatically shifts to the new partition. It is possible to create multiple partitions if you like. To do this you would add the option size=<x> where <x> is the size in megabytes (MB) you would like the partition to be. If no size is specified, like in my example, the partition continues until there is no more unallocated space.

Create Partition

Type “format fs=ntfs quick label=test” and press Enter. This will now perform a quick format, using a ntfs file system and labelling the drive “test”. You may wish to use the file system fat32 in place of ntfs if you would like to use the drive with other operating systems.

Format

Lastly type “assign letter <x>” and press Enter, where <x> is the letter you would like to assign the drive.

Assign Drive Letter

You can close the Disk Part tool and Command Prompt using the “exit” command. You should now see your freshly formatted drive in My Computer, ready to use.