Overview Recently, I began having problems with Virtual Server 2005 R2 on my Windows XP computer.  I was not aware of anything having changed, except suddenly my VPCs couldn't find a network adapter.  Facing the possibility of a complete laptop rebuild, I was scouring the net for a solution... Failed attempts Before finally landing a working solution, I attempted the following: Restarting Virtual Machines (before and after other changes) Restarting Virtual Server (and associated services) Looking for patches (none applicable) Creating new network configurations ... [More]

Overview Having added Flash content support to a website, I was getting this message in Internet Explorer 6.  Internet Explorer 7 and FireFox both worked without any problems.  I knew about the issue of Active Content and Internet Explorer 7, but I didn't know what was causing this problem in IE6. Solution It turns out that the message is caused by exactly the same behaviour that causes the infamous "click here to use this control" message in Internet Explorer 7.  See this article: Activating ActiveX Controls (Microsoft MSDN) I was already using a script to generate the <objec... [More]

Overview I've been importing a live EPiServer site into a development environment for further work.  Normally, this works without problem, but this time I've been getting a POST error, but nothing informative.  What's happening? Solution A quick look at the event logs on the IIS server quickly identifies the problem: the file exceeds the upload limit.  Of course this is less likely to happen in a normal development run, but once there is a fair amount of data it fails.  If I hadn't spotted the error in the event log, I might have been stuck for some time. The default ASP.NET upload limit i... [More]

Overview Do you have problems searching for text in files using Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008?  This problem has been affecting us in our development environment, but how can you fix it? Context From Windows XP, Microsoft changed the default behaviour of the Windows Explorer search feature.  They did this for performance reasons, and from Windows XP Service Pack 2 onwards you can choose to revert to the old behaviour, but the effect was that only certain file types are searched by default. Solutions There are two solutions: Register a handler... [More]

Overview Sometimes you have to manually refresh folders in Windows XP to see changes that have taken place on network servers. Context When you create or delete any file in one or more network folders, you have to refresh the display to see the changes.  This can happen with any folder, but most frequently when you are using Microsoft DFS technology. Solution You need to follow the instructions in File list in the Windows Explorer folder is not refreshed after you create, move, or delete files (Microsoft Support).  This requires two things: Install Windows XP Service Pack 2 M... [More]