Mr N

Under Vista 7-Zip's context menu extensions don't work, everything else about 7-Zip works as normal. There seems to be something funny about the i368 version of 7-Zip when running under Windows Vista. To make the context menus work: Uninstall… more »

A customer of mine had their own root server with 1and1. I got a call to investigate why none of their websites were working. After a bit of investigation, I realised I was looking at a half re-installed machine.It turned out that there had been a me… more »

I am writing this article because it seems to take me ages to find out where the magic switches are in the wizard to let you select "burn iso". ULeadBurn.Now's documentation is appalling, so I'm writing this to keep it in my mind so I don't have to make… more »

There are several ways of sharing files between 2 (or more) PCs. The simplest is some sort of removable media such as a memory stick or DVD. You might run into problems if your file is bigger than the size of the memory stick. The trouble with copying fi… more »

I had a problem with renaming a properties file. Java's File.renameTo() always failed and returned false. There was no explanation as to why it failed, so it left me stuck with no idea what to do. Windows has a different file locking policy to Unix (a… more »