some thoughts

Hit by that annoying “Automatic Updates has encountered a problem and needs to close” loop when you start up your rig? Try the following:

Create a new text document on your desktop, title it fixmyrig.bat, and drop the following code in it:
net stop WuAuServ
cd %windir%
rd /s /q %windir%\SDold
ren %windir%\SoftwareDistribution SDold
net start WuAuServ

Save it, close it, then […]

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Ever wanted to fall asleep to your mp3 playlist? Now you can.
Here’s how:
1. create a new text file and type ’shutdown -s -f -t 2000′
2. save it as ’shutdown.bat’ (no .txt file extentsion) somewhere convenient
3. click it to shutdown!
Notes:
- the -s means to shutdown the local pc
- the -f means to force processes to […]

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Many people have problems with getting duplicate emails in Outlook 2002/2003. I don’t know why this happens, and I don’t know how to stop it from happening.
However, I have modified some code I found (somewhere) that will loop through your Inbox (and subfolders) and delete any duplicate emails it finds.
If you have a lot of […]

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[UPDATE: This is no longer available for distribution–sorry. -AG 7.14.05]
Just developed this little tool - “TimeSheet” - for a friend of mine. It loops through your calendar for a selected date range and outputs the total hours by category (or subject, company, location, whatever–I could change it for whatever you need).
If you put a […]

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Ever get an email with 24 pictures attached?
Now you can click a button and save them all to the directory of your choice AND remove them from your inbox. This little VBA code will save the pictures to the directory you choose, remove the pictures from the email, append a permanent link to the […]

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Sick of seeing fax numbers as valid email addresses in Outlook 2003?
This code will prepend “fax: ” to all of the fax numbers in Outlook (BusinessFax, HomeFax, and OtherFax) so it won’t be recognized as a valid email address.
To do this:
1. Copy the text from this file: fixfax.txt
2. Open Outlook and hit ALT-F11 to […]

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