Enable Administrator account

Posted under Windows. Viewed 14 times.
Created on October 18, 2009. Last modified on January 22, 2010.

windowsEventhough the account used to install Windows 7 is part of the administrators group, you may find the need for a “real” administrator account to get the “old feel of absolute power and administrative control” over your PC back as you were used to in previous Windows versions.

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Disable AutoPlay

Posted under Windows. Viewed 46 times.
Created on September 11, 2009. Last modified on January 22, 2010.

windowsIn order to prevent Windows 7 from asking you each time what you want to do, or worse automatically start running programs, each time you insert a CD or USB key into the PC you will want to disable AutoPlay:

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Sort posts based upon last modification date

Posted under WordPress. Viewed 89 times.
Created on September 11, 2009. Last modified on January 19, 2010.

wordpressBecause I regularly update existing posts instead of writing new ones each time the contents needs to be changed, it would make sense to also show the last modified post first instead of alphabetically or by creation date. In order to do this some source code of the WordPress theme needs to be modified.

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WordPress category & tag policy

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Created on November 3, 2009. Last modified on January 18, 2010.

wordpressWordPress provides the possibility to add both multiple categories and multiple tags to each post. In order to avoid chaos and confusion I decided upon the following usage policy for this site:

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Remove smiley from WordPress footer

Posted under WordPress. Viewed 56 times.
Created on September 26, 2009. Last modified on January 18, 2010.

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After installing the WP-stats plug-in a smiling face or “smiley” suddenly appears in the footer, but with this code that I found on the WordPress forum you can remove it without loosing the functionality of wp_footer.

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