9-22-04

o “A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug?” or “Internet Explorer Script Error. An error has occurred in the script on line 1. Do you wish to continue running scripts on this page?"

There are three reasons why these problems occur. The first is that the web page author made some programming error. The second reason may be that you are running a pop-up killer that closes pop-up windows so fast that the script on the web page fails. The third is that you might have some adware or spyware installed on your computer that opens the script error pop-ups.

How to disable script and runtime errors
You can configure Internet Explorer to ignore these script and runtime errors. Please follow this step-by-step guide:

1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Click on Tools, then on Internet Options.

3. Click on the Advanced tab.

4. Look for the "Disable script debugging" line and put a check mark in the box.

5. Now look for the "Display a notification about every script error" line and remove the check mark in the box.

9-16-04

o To create a boot disk for Windows XP:

From the Command Prompt, run FORMAT A:

Copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from the I386 folder to the floppy

Copy BOOT.INI from the C:\ Root to the floppy

BOOT.INI must match the machine’s configuration (e.g. single IDE system drive, SCSI system drive, RAID 0 SATA drives, etc.)

If other than non-RAID IDE drives, the DOS drivers for the drive adapter must be on the floppy as NTBOOTDD.SYS

o To map a shared network printer that is available to DOS applications, create a text file called STARTUP.BAT in the C:\ Root with the command:

NET USE LPT1: \\MachineName\PrinterShareName /YES

9-14-04

• Various IE problems http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/

• Modify setup.ini file in the Windows 2000 installer I386 directory so that the Pid=51873XXX line becomes Pid=51873270 to eliminate the need to enter the Product Key when installing Windows 2000 – http://www.petri.co.il

• Go to %SystemDrive%\documents and settings\%username%\sendto

Right-click in the right hand panel and select New > Shortcut

Create a new shortcut to Notepad.exe in the sendto folder.

Now if you right-click any TXT, VBS, CMD, DAT, NFO etc. file, you can choose the Send To menu and send the file to Notepad which will immediately open it for editing.

9-13-04

• To Delete / Remove all index.dat files: Start in Safe Mode with Command prompt – Logon as Administrator -

Type CD\

Del index.dat /s

Restart

• To uninstall Internet Explore 6 in Windows 2000, Go to the Start Menu Run line – enter or Browse to: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IE Uninstall\w2kexcp.exe -

run it as w2kexcp.exe /u

9-10-04

• Samsung SPH-i330 Palm Smartphone driver uses a USB-Serial Port driver that appears only as a serial port – Comm 3 in this case. Palm Hotsync needs to be configured to use serial port for sync.

9-9-04

• Citrix Client for OSI ica32t70.exe will not work if there are too many files in the Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files folder
• Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files folder can be limited in size by going to Tools / Internet Options – On the General Tab - Temporary Internet Files section - Settings
• Problem in Microsoft MS Word “One or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page. Choose the fix button to increase the appropriate margins.” is caused by HP printer driver problem. Common in HP 2100 and 2200 series printers. Using the printer driver supplied by Microsoft with Windows 2000 solved problem.

9-8-04

• www.windowsxpatoz.com
• Right-Click on Recycle Bin for options to limit size of Recycle Bin and disable confirmation of delete. Windows 98 2000 XP
• MS DOS Prompt CMD program can be re-sized by Left-Clicking in the C: icon in the upper left-hand corner of the window and choosing Properties – Go to the Layout Tab
• Windows Explorer can be made to open to the contents of the C: drive by modifying its shortcut to point to C:\Windows\Explorer /n,/e,c:\ Windows 98 2000 XP
• Windows Key + E will open Windows Explorer to My Computer rather than My Documents – Windows 98 2000 XP
• Windows XP Search – Find Files can be made to act – look like Windows 2000 with a registry patch that contains:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState]

"Settings"=hex:0c,00,02,00,1a,01,e7,77,60,00,00,00

"FullPath"=dword:00000000

"FullPathAddress"=dword:00000001

"Use Search Asst"="no"