Use CSS to create smooth transitional effects. Move and change elements without the need of plugins like Adobe Flash or Java. Using lightweight, simple and efficient code. However all these advantages of Cascading Style Sheets do have one main noticeable disadvantage, in order to see these effects, the end client must be using a web browser with supports such effects. See the search bar above for an example – this works smoothly in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera. Internet … Continue reading →

Ever get stuck with the screen below? Where you want to install a printer but can’t find the driver .inf only an executable bundled with various vendor software you don’t want installing or perhaps the bundled software won’t detect your printer so you need to enter these manually. 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 … Continue reading →

Here’s a quick and simple guide to creating a short script to backup your MYSQL databases for your WAMP server. 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 … Continue reading →

If you must access a file or a folder that you do not have rights to, you must first take ownership of that file or folder. When you do this, you replace the security permissions that were originally created for the file or folder. 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 … Continue reading →

In Windows I would normally be driven to either format a drive through the Disk Management console or by right-clicking on a drive in Windows Explorer and selecting the “Format…” option, but there can be advantages to formatting a driver through Command Prompt. For example if you are reformatting a drive which previously had an Operating System on the drive you can find there are System Partitions on the drive which can’t be seen in Windows Explorer and refuse to … Continue reading →