Monthly Archives: October 2008

My C Drive is filling up, can you help?

I was asked today if there is anything you can do if the C: drive of your Windows computer is filling up. In some situations there is. The two main bits of advice I could offer were (1) Reducing the amount of space System restore takes and (2) Moving your pagefile.sys. (1) Reducing System Restore… Read More »

Ever needed your Windows Install Key….

Picture the situation, you’re about to kick of a rebuild of you’re PC, but the Microsoft Genuine Certificate has been rubbed off on the back of your computer. How do you find that key the enables you to re-install Windows. An easy piece of software which I’ve used for many years comes to the rescue…Keyfinder… Read More »

How do I make my server visible on the ‘net?

So you’ve created your new all encompassing server, but you’re not sure how to be able to let it loose on the internet. This article is for you. I’m assuming that you’ve setup any router port forwarding, opened up network ports and have a proper listening server (e.g. a web server) listening on the other… Read More »

Oracle OUI silent install/deinstalls

I’ve been working on this all week and I finally made a breakthrough for this today. The task at hand was to automate the install of the Oracle Data Access Components for OLE DB for 10g. At my work we prefer to script everything so if anyone gets knocked down by a bus, someone else… Read More »