How-to: Bypass a WSUS server

17 03 2011

As long as you have administrative access on your work computer, all you have to do is change the following key to ‘0’ (from ‘1’): UseWUServer under the following location in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Hope this helps someone out there.



How to enable or disable Quick Launch in Windows 7

17 03 2011

Just adding this for archival purposes…

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html



Web Service Reference in Visual Studio 2010

4 03 2011

If you’ve used Visual Studio 2008 or 2010, you’ll notice that Web Reference is no longer there (like in VS 2005 and previous), instead, you see Service Reference –- actually, it’s STILL there, just hidden!

So, what’s the difference?  Well, according to this post:

Add Web Reference is the old-style, deprecated ASP.NET webservices (ASMX) technology (using only the XmlSerializer for your stuff) – if you do this, you get an ASMX client for an ASMX web service. You can do this in just about any project (Web App, Web Site, Console App, Winforms – you name it).

Add Service Reference is the new way of doing it, adding a WCF service reference, which gives you a much more advanced, much more flexible service model than just plain old ASMX stuff.

So, how do you access it?  Simple — right-click on Service References in the Solution Explorer window and…

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Click on “Advanced…”

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Then click on “Add Web Reference…”

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Voila!  You can now consume the web service like you did pre-Visual Studio 2008 era.  Happy coding!



How to configure source control for Visual Studio

19 11 2010

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How to fix a corrupted Windows 7 profile

14 06 2010
  1. Log on with newly created administrative account.
  2. Delete C:\Users\%username%
  3. Delete C:\Users\TEMP
  4. Delete the registry key matching your SID from: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
  5. Check the value of ProfileImagePath so the system will your correct profile.
  6. Restart once again and login with your own account.