Domain-Cookies

According to various documentation, the cookie domain has to contain at least 2 dots for a browser to accept this as a wildcard cookie (e.g. .google.com) and use this for all sub-domains. So .foo.bar.com should work – should.Opera doesn’t like it and only accepts it domain-wide if there are exactly 2 dots in the domain… Read More »

Max 10 simultaneous SMB-connections

Windows XP Professional only allows 10 simultaneous connections to shares and printer spoolers. The eleventh user gets a System error #71 message. The unused connections get freed after 30 minutes which is a bit late since often you just need a few files or to print some pages but this blocks the connection for 30… Read More »

Dr. Kaiser PcConsole

Homepage: http://www.dr-kaiser.eu/ To make locking the workstation impossible, kill PdsLspSv.exe in Task Manager. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PdsLsp\Flags This value controls locking Internet upon bootup (only, if the LehrerConsole isn’t working).

Swing apps show garbled backgrounds

This may have to do with a damaged OpenGL pipeline. Play around with the following parameters: If you found the correct combination, set it as environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS.

Lighten up whitespace characters

If you enable the checkbox Show whitespace characters under General → Editors → Text Editors, the characters are a bit too offensive. Sadly, there’s no option to change the transparency of them. The default (and fixed) value is 64h/FFh = 100d/255d (ca. 40% visible / 60% transparency). You can only change the value using a… Read More »

HD uses PIO instead of DMA

If Windows uses PIO mode instead of DMA, it probably have slowed down due to reading errors. To fix the slow-down, find the registry key: This contains the subfolders 0000, 0001 and 0002. 0001 is the primary IDE port and 0002 is the secondary. But watch the entries in there and you’ll get the idea.… Read More »

Device Manager Hacks

To show a ‘Details’ tab in device’s properties, add the system environment variable DevMgr_Show_Details and set itto “1”. To also show non-active devices, add DevMgr_Show_NonPresent_Devices and also set it to “1”.

SrvAny vs. WinServ

SrvAny.exe doesn’t recognize when the launched application exits. Windows still thinks that the service (SrvAny.exe)is running and so error handling (restart app, restart windows, etc.) doesn’t occur. Winserv doesn’t have this problem. Get it from http://sw4me.com/wiki/Winserv?v=qw0.