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From this Newsgroup post: Are you tired of clicking on activex controls on webpages since MS has lost its battle against Eolas? Then this is for you. The restrictions reside in the file mshtml.dll. So you need an older version of this file without the restrictions. It's located here: http://support....

Three bogus accounts were created in under 8 hours. I'm not going to spend all of my time deleting these things. I've disabled account activation altogether. If you want an account, please just send me a personal email with the username and password you'd like, along with some more descriptive messa...

Right. So - over the past several months, multiple "spam" accounts have been created on this board. Mostly with usernames that never post anything, but which are obviously fake - since they called themselves "free online poker" and "Crackhead". Additionally, some joker ...

I recently installed PHP 5.1 to my server. After that, when sending an email via SquirrelMail 1.4.5, I'd get the following: ERROR: Bad or malformed request. Server responded: Missing message to APPEND The email would actually be sent, despite this, but it wouldn't be stored in the Sent folder. Some ...

This only affects Windows hosts. The series of steps comes from discussion of the 1.4 beta. (It still hasn't been fixed in 1.4.2.) In include/functions.inc.php, FIND (around line 2681): $filename = ltrim(strrchr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], '/'), '/'); REPLACE WITH: $filename = ltrim(strrchr('/' . $_SERVER...

I recently removed McAfee from my computer at work. (I discovered that it was showing symptoms of a rootkit - per Sysinternals' RootkitRevealer - API information was being hidden / misrepresented. I replaced it with Avast! which doesn't perform any similary questionable activities.) After having don...

In searchnew.php, look for the first:

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        return <<<EOT

and replace with:

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    if ($checked == 'checked') {
        return <<<EOT

Immediately after, look for:

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EOT;

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EOT;
}

To get rid of the Album / Page count footer at the bottom of each category, edit include/themes.inc.php , line 1137, and replace: $template_tab_display = array('left_text' => 'td width="100%%" align="left" valign="middle" class="tableh1_compact" style="wh...

I've always just found this annoying, so here's how to get rid of it in Coppermine 1.4.2. At line 220 of include/themes.inc.php , replace: <td class="tableh1" width="80%" align="left"><b>{CATEGORY}</b></td> <td class="tableh1" width="10%" align="...

If running Coppermine 1.4.1 beta, the code to alter begins at line 189, and "db_query($sql)" should be replaced with "cpg_db_query($sql)": $link = "<a href=\"index.php?cat={$subcat['cid']}\">{$subcat['name']}</a>"; with: if ($album_count==1) { $sql = "SEL...

I've been annoyed by this for a while and finally found the solution after a bit of Googling. (I swear that I'd looked for this earlier but was unable to find any information on it at the time.) In any case, you can modify the defaults of any snapin by working with the .msc file for it in a certain ...

In Linux, you'd write an image file to a floppy using the following syntax: dd if=floppyimage of=/dev/fd0 With the GNU port of Linux under Windows, the first thing I tried was: dd if=floppyimage of=a: That didn't work. So, how do you refer to the floppy drive in Windows? It took me a bit to figure i...

This just happened to me. I don't know if it's related to a recent series of Microsoft Windows updates I applied or not. 1. I verified that the drives were being seen by the Bios, so it wasn't a hardware issue. 2. Devices Manager had exclamation points on the drive entries and said that the hardware...

Here's how to reconfigure Coppermine so that if there's only a single album in a category, when you click on the category link it will take you directly to it - rather than requiring you to click on the category and then also on the album: Find the file index.php in your coppermine folder. then repl...

Some time ago, I wrote a mod for phpBB that lets you encrypt and decrypt private messages (it's currently in use here on Ask Virgil) - you can get it here . A couple of days ago, somebody wrote to me to say that they liked using it - except for the phpBB warning messages that are thrown up on the sc...

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Bypassing Microsoft's new ActiveX behaviour.

Ask Virgil hacked / change in policy.

PHP 5.1 breaks SquirrelMail send function.

Coppermine: Batch upload says you have no files.

Removing McAfee causes error from Outlook about missing DLL.

Coppermine: Show only new files in 'Batch upload files'.

Coppermine: Get rid of Album / Page count for categories.

Coppermine: Get rid of Category / Files information.

Make control panel Services use Standard tab by default.

Using GNU port of DD in Windows.

CD-ROM drives missing from Explorer.

Coppermine: Category -> album if there is only one.

Warning when using encrypted PM mod.