Good article about scraping the website

 

http://www.timvasil.com/blog14/post/2010/12/Screenscraping-authenticated-HTTPS-ASPNET-web-pages-with-viewstate-and-ScriptManager.aspx

Startup Manager and Service on Windows 7 that Can be stopped

Just clearing my windows 7 desktop and find 2 useful software+link to speed up the performance of the windows 7 desktop system.

Windows Service That can be stopped: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tr/downloads/home/windows_xp_services_that_can_be_disabled.pdf

Startup Manager: http://codestuff.tripod.com/products_starter.html

Defragment: http://download.cnet.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html

Countries/States/City list for development

I have just needed the countries/states/city list for the development purpose. After searching a bit, I found 2 good sites for the same.

http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

Another is for many used lists

http://www.toolsjar.com/list_generator.php

IIS on Windows 7 Home Edition

Today, I have tried a lot to install IIS on windows 7 home edition. I have option to install IIS but got no selection for installing the IIS console. It seems that we need to use the Ultimate edition of windows for IIS to work fully on Windows 7. 

If there are any workaround or if I am missing something, please post me answer 🙂

At least, for now, I believe that Ultimate Windows 7 is needed to install IIS Console.

Website link checker

We are just finalizing updates on our website IntelliPro Solutions and there are some broken links. Rather than manually searching for broken links, I found a useful freeware which can check all broken links (including external) in all pages of our site.

It’s http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html (XenuLink)

Such tool really saves time.

Could not login into Live Messenger from windows 7

 

There are problems with live messenger from windows 7 ultimate sometimes. I have tried following and it works like charm 🙂

a.  Click Start , click All Programs, click Accessories, click Run, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
%windir%\system32\regsvr32 softpub.dll 

b.  Click Start , click All Programs, click Accessories, click Run, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
%windir%\system32\Regsvr32 wintrust.dll 

c. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click Run, type the following command and press ENTER:
ipconfig /flushdns

Start the messenger and wait for sometime to login into the messenger.

If it still don’t work, go and play FIFA or CRICKET. Might be some other games, rather than chatting 😉

Uninstall any kind of windows/live messenger

This is small utility which removes and uninstall any kind of live messenger or windows messenger installed in your system.

http://messengergeek.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E3785B1281BBDA1!1118.entry

Dell laptop – FN function keys problem resolved

As one of the problem I found with the laptop now a days is the keys those are with the Function keys. As a developer, we require to setup function key as priority instead of other keys. But by default, we need to press FN+Function key.

To change this behavior

1. First Solution:-

You can use the Function Key Behaviour setting in the System Setup (BIOS) utility to configure the media control keys. The options in the Function Key Behaviour setting are:

Multimedia Key First – This is the default option. Press any multimedia key directly. For function key, press <Fn> + the required function key.

Function Key First – Press any function key directly. For multimedia key, press <Fn> + the required multimedia key.

NOTE: Multimedia Key First option is active only in the operating system. During POST, press <F2> or <F12> directly.

2. Second Solution:-

Just go to Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Adjust commonly used mobility settings -> Fn Key Behavior

Change it to "Function key"

Source: http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19281847.aspx

Google’s Big ones in 2010 : Nexus One looks nice

 

Google Voice

Google Wave

Google Chrome OS

Google Nexus One.

"No such interface supported" + Log could not be created in SMTP Server

While configuring SMTP server, I got the errors while clicking on Current Sessions. That error is “No Such Interface supported.”

Looking at that in detail and some blogs, I found that there are 2 problems:

1) Log is not created in SMTP log folder
2) We could not view current session as we got the error message “No Such Interface supported.”

Both problem is resolved by taking following steps:

1) Go to Server Manager and Install ODBC Logging module (You can search on net how to install Role Services Feature)

2) Stop and Start SMTP Server service. Enable logging in SMTP server.

3) connect SMTP server by telnet

4) Now, see if log is created in the respected log folder. If not, you can try the command to flush the log buffer

netsh http flush logbuffer

5) See if now log is created. It must be there. Else god will help you :).

Now for another part, you need to register the following dll.

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>regsvr32 smtpsnap.dll
C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>regsvr32 smtpadm.dll

Stop and Start SMTP Service.

And, Voila the message is gone. If not, then Nobody can help you. Format the PC and install new OS. Just kidding guys. Enjoy!!! :P.