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How To Rotate Your Screen Display

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 Jun 2011 | Tagged as: How To

Every once in a while, I see someone who accidentally rotates the display output on their monitor. Its typically upside down, but it could also be rotated to the left or right. There are no obvious key sequences in Windows that can do this and it would have the average person contacting their IT department [...]

How to Edit an Outlook 2010 E-mail

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Jun 2011 | Tagged as: How To

Editing a received e-mail is useful if want to add notes to it and save it. Outlook 2010 changed the way that e-mails get edited from the 2003 version. The earlier version had pull down menus which had the edit function, but the latest version doesn’t have these menus and instead uses a ribbon bar [...]

How to Redirect a WordPress Page to a URL

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Jun 2011 | Tagged as: How To

A page in WordPress can be easily redirected to a URL without using a plugn. It just requires a little knowledge of HTML. In the Title of the page, add <a href …> code which points to the URL that you want to display. On my blog, I created a Forums page which has the [...]

Visual Studio 2010 Build Error: Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 09 Jun 2011 | Tagged as: How To

This error can appear during a project build in Visual Studio if you decide to create a stand alone installer when the project was initially set to use ClickOnce technology. The error message can occur when the signing certificate (.pfx) is deleted or the project is moved to another computer. To prevent this message from [...]

A More Powerful Way to Administer Passwords (control userpasswords2)

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 01 Jun 2011 | Tagged as: How To

Windows users typically modify their login accounts through the User Accounts or Computer Management apps in the Control Panel. This would typically be sufficient for performing the most common tasks, such as changing your password. I recently activated an Administrator account through a registry hack in Windows XP. This was done by adding Administrator as [...]

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