Remove smiley from WordPress footer

Posted under Wordpress.
Created on September 26, 2009. Last modified on February 17, 2011.

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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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Enable Administrator account

Posted under Windows.
Created on October 18, 2009. Last modified on February 17, 2011.

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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Firefox add-ons do not work after upgrade

Posted under Freeware.
Created on November 11, 2009. Last modified on February 17, 2011.

firefoxAfter upgrading Mozilla Firefox to a newer version, the previously installed add-ons do not work anymore.

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Sharing a user folder

Posted under Windows.
Created on November 11, 2009. Last modified on February 17, 2011.

windowsWhen trying to share only a single subfolder in [drive]:\Users\[user] (for instance C:\Users\JohnDoe\Downloads) the entire Users folder actually gets shared.

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mailto link to Hotmail in Firefox

Posted under Freeware.
Created on December 22, 2009. Last modified on February 17, 2011.

firefoxFollow the next steps to configure Firefox to use Microsoft Live Mail or Hotmail as default application for mailto links.

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