Chris TH's Articles In Personal Computing
February 11, 2007 by Chris TH
Hoping to draw on the vast expertise of the WinCustomise userbase    ... I'm looking for a task scheduler to run under WinXp or later that you can setup exceptions to the rule. To clarify: I want to setup task(s) that run every Mon-Fri at certain times - this is easy and can be done in one line of crontab or windows scheduler, but for my needs there are certain days or more correctly dates (eg public/school holidays) on which these tasks musn't run. To my mind it...
August 1, 2006 by Chris TH
I thought this made a nice contrast to Jafo's HDD thread How would you go with more that one of these?
May 27, 2005 by Chris TH
This one is really stumping me... I run a laptop with XP Pro. Up until a few months ago it's only ever been connected to workgroup LAN environments. Then at work we installed a Win2003 server machine (to run some special business software) - it is NOT configured as a domain controller - i.e the workgroup environment is unchanged. Since that time, my login takes anywhere up to 1.5 minutes regardless of whether it's connected to the LAN or not. I verified this using Microsoft BootVis....
March 28, 2005 by Chris TH
Some interesting display effects that Mac users seem to be fond of, as an example: http://files.macbidouille.com/transparent/pages/gallery_29767_11_13892.html There're more here: http://files.macbidouille.com/transparent/