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I changed from Windows 2000 to Vista some time ago, and low and behold Vista uses a wee bit more disk space. Sadly enough the system partition is only 15 GByte, so it is a "daily" struggle to keep disk usage down (Especially when SP1 had to be installed). Right now there is 2 GByte [...]

Microsoft have made Vista even more stable with SP1 (though the major contributor is probably Vista ready drivers), and have at the same time given XP some love by collecting all patches released since SP2 into a single tested SP3 package. Vista SP1 introduces a new Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol service, which allows VPN over SSL [...]

Windows Vista includes support of several new network features if they are available on the network interface card (also possible with Win2k3 SP2). One of the new features is the Receive-side Scaling (RSS), which actually solves the issue of MMCSS needing to throttle network traffic, as it offloads the handling of interrupts and DPC to [...]

Seems a lot of people like to save hard-disk space using NTFS compression, but accidently also compresses the boot manager files so it fails to boot. Have added some articles about the Vista Boot Manager and system recovery: Configuration of the boot manager entries which also includes two free utilities that are easier to use than BCDEdit. Windows [...]

Have now upgraded the bbPress forum to ver. 0.83, eventhough it is marked as an update to be compatible with Wordpress 2.3 then it still works fine with WP 2.0. Have also modified the Wordpress blog search, so now it displays the categories which contains matching posts (This is also used when showing posts with a [...]

Wordpress 2.3 is about to be released and introduces new features, and I have (like many) been looking forward to the new flexible taxonomy system, which should properly handle post-categories, link-categories and tags all together. Therefore I made a test upgrade to see if I had to make any changes to adapt my WP 2.0 [...]

Yesterday this website was taken down because it was accused of hosting files, which violated copyright restrictions. The program that triggered this situation was TweakNT, which allows one to change a Workstation-edition of Windows into a Server-edition. Dritte haben uns mitgeteilt, dass auf Ihrem Server http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/files/tweaknt.zip unautorisiertes Angebot zum Download vorgehalten wird. In dem Angebot sind [...]

Was looking at the possibility of mounting a FTP drive as a network drive, and found that there was several things in this area I didn't know. Mapping FTP server as a network drive letter Mapping WebDAV folder as a network drive letter Adding FTP server / WebDAV folder as a network place Note if using a Gmail account, [...]

Have now configured a news feed which is a mashup of different news sources about Microsoft Windows. It is now much easier to follow multiple news sites without needing to shovel through advertisements. Added Ext2 / Ext3 file system driver to Windows Utilities. Added Changing the font of the command prompt to Command Prompt Tips. Credits Duffblog. Added [...]

The initial list of Windows Vista services is now ready. Have been borrowing a lot from the following places: ITsVista.com - Good description of the services beyond the one-liner from Microsoft, but doesn't have description for all the services yet. BlackViper.com - Complete list of all services with serveral configuration recommendations, but not much description of why. The [...]

Discovered how to activate gzip compression for WP-Cache in IIS, so now the pages should be quicker to load. Updated Internet Explorer Tip about how Reset Internet Explorer Settings can be used to remove branding for IE7. Added Vista Netwok Tip about how to configure the MTU size. Added Vista Security Tip about how to restrict access to [...]

Have been checking the 404 errors, and have fixed a few redirects. Also confirmed my fear of performance problems when using shared web-hosting, as there was a short moment of 5 minutes where all page request took 15 secs. or more to load (WP-Cache or not). Added some new articles that have been lying in my [...]

Have been playing around with the blog software Wordpress, and have become so impressed by its functionality, that I have now converted the entire site into a blog. It was quite easy to use this blogging system as a Content Management System (CMS). For me it gives the following benefits: Can re-design / optimize the entire site [...]

Have started working on a blog here at smallvoid.com, and I'm now slowly working on moving all the contents to the blog. Take a sneak peek if you can guess the URL to the blog. Updated WinNT+ Command Prompt Tip with details of how to start a command prompt with administrator rights. Credits Winhelponline.com Added Windows Tweak [...]

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone, and hopefully you will enter the new year with a full stomach. Added new theme Zune signed by Microsoft. Credits Microsoft Added Internet Explorer Tip about how to increase the HTTP upload speeds. Credits jsifaq.com Added WinNT Install Tip about how to open a command prompt during the install. Added [...]