Archive - March 2013

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

Index

Web Page to PDF
Bing Desktop Images
Flash Player mms.cfg File
Disable Shockwave Player Update
Shake Image Effect
Drag Objects in Web Pages
Custom Opacity Settings

Disable System Restore
Runas Windows 7
Rename Computer with Input Box
Join Domain
Chrome 1722 Error

Δ Sunday, March 31st, 2013

Δ Web Page to PDF

How to convert basic web pages to pdf format

Demo

Using the HTMLTools.exe, I was able to easily capture and convert a website to a PDF document.

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Δ Friday, March 29th, 2013

Δ Bing Desktop Images

Where are the Bing Desktop themes stored?

The Bing Desktop gives you a high def wallpaper everyday; where are they stored?
The reason I wanted to know this was because I wanted to use the wallpapers in other html applications.

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Δ Monday, March 25th, 2013

Δ Flash Player mms.cfg File

How to stop the flash player from updating automatically

How exactly do you create the mms.cfg file that is used in flash player setup?
The system location is "%windir%\system32\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg" or
here "%windir%\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg" respectively.

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Δ Friday, March 22nd, 2013

Δ Disable Shockwave Player Update

How to stop shockwave from auto updating

Demo
pic

The simplest way to stop the shockwave player from auto updating is to edit the MSI using ORCA.

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Δ Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Δ Shake Image Effect

How to add a shake image effect to html/hta

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Demo

This is a cool effect you can use in your webpages or HTML apps to add a shaking like effect
on hover. I used it as a selection feature on hover; it let's the user know which object is being
selected by shaking.

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Δ Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

Δ Drag Objects in Web Pages

How to move objects around in your HTML/HTA

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Demo

This is a nice feature that can be added to your webpage or HTML apps. It allows the user to
drag around objects on the screen. This could be used for puzzles, customizing onscreen
content location, or something completely dynamic in nature.

.drag1{
position:relative;
cursor:hand;
z-index: 100;
padding:10px;
display:inline-block;

}

.drag2{
position:relative;
cursor:hand;
z-index: 100;
padding:10px;
display:inline-block;

}

.showme{ 
display: none;
}
.showhim:hover .showme{
display : block;
}
.auto-style12 {
	font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";
	font-size: medium;
}
</style>

var dragobject={
z: 0, x: 0, y: 0, offsetx : null, offsety : null, targetobj : null, dragapproved : 0,
initialize:function(){
document.onmousedown=this.drag
document.onmouseup=function(){this.dragapproved=0}
},
drag:function(e){
var evtobj=window.event? window.event : e
this.targetobj=window.event? event.srcElement : e.target
if (this.targetobj.className=="drag1"){
this.dragapproved=1
if (isNaN(parseInt(this.targetobj.style.left))){this.targetobj.style.left=0}
if (isNaN(parseInt(this.targetobj.style.top))){this.targetobj.style.top=0}
this.offsetx=parseInt(this.targetobj.style.left)
this.offsety=parseInt(this.targetobj.style.top)
this.x=evtobj.clientX
this.y=evtobj.clientY
if (evtobj.preventDefault)
evtobj.preventDefault()
document.onmousemove=dragobject.moveit1
}
if (this.targetobj.className=="drag2"){
this.dragapproved=1
if (isNaN(parseInt(this.targetobj.style.top))){this.targetobj.style.top=0}
this.offsety=parseInt(this.targetobj.style.top)
this.y=evtobj.clientY
if (evtobj.preventDefault)
evtobj.preventDefault()
document.onmousemove=dragobject.moveit2
}
},
moveit1:function(e){
var evtobj=window.event? window.event : e
if (this.dragapproved==1){
this.targetobj.style.left=this.offsetx+evtobj.clientX-this.x+"px"
this.targetobj.style.top=this.offsety+evtobj.clientY-this.y+"px"
return false
}
},
moveit2:function(e){
var evtobj=window.event? window.event : e
if (this.dragapproved==1){
this.targetobj.style.top=this.offsety+evtobj.clientY-this.y+"px"
return false
}
}
}

dragobject.initialize()

</script>
</head>

<body>
<div class="drag1" id="layer3" class="auto-style16" style="position: absolute; width: 34px; height: 416px; z-index: 3; left: -12px; top: 273px"><br>xxxxx</span></div>
<br>
<div class="drag2" id="layer3" class="auto-style16" style="position: absolute; width: 34px; height: 416px; z-index: 3; left: -12px; top: 273px"><br><br>xxxxx</span></div>
</body>

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Δ Friday, March 15th, 2013

Δ Custom Opacity Settings

How to create on hover custom opacity css styles

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This is a nice on hover effect that allows you to keep content faded until on hover...and then
it brightens up. I use it to make it appear like there are many less objects on screen than
there actually are; reduces mess.

<head> <style> .myimg { opacity:0.4; filter:alpha(opacity=30); /* For IE8 and earlier */ } img:hover { opacity:1.0; filter:alpha(opacity=100); /* For IE8 and earlier */ } .myimg2 { opacity:0.4; filter:alpha(opacity=35); /* For IE8 and earlier */ } img:hover { opacity:1.0; filter:alpha(opacity=100); /* For IE8 and earlier */ } textarea { opacity:0.4; filter:alpha(opacity=40); /* For IE8 and earlier */ } textarea:hover { opacity:1.0; filter:alpha(opacity=100); /* For IE8 and earlier */ } input { opacity:0.4; filter:alpha(opacity=80); /* For IE8 and earlier */ } input:hover { opacity:1.0; filter:alpha(opacity=100); /* For IE8 and earlier */ } </style> </head> <body> <img class="myimg" src="image.png" onclick="" title="volume up" height="30" width="30"> </body>

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Δ Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

Δ Disable System Restore

How to disable system restore

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This is a simple vbscript to disable system restore. It uses objWMIService.Get to configure the setting.

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Δ Monday, March 11th, 2013

Δ Runas Windows 7

How to run elevated explorer.exe

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There is always the need to launch or execute apps in an elevated. Well, every new
Microsoft OS release it gets harder and harder. Here is the latest method to launch
elevated explorer.exe (usually quite difficult).

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Δ Friday, March 8th, 2013

Δ Rename Computer with Input Box

How to rename computer with input box

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This uses a simple vbscript with an input box to rename a computer. This uses the
Win32_ComputerSystem class and WMI to rename the machine.

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Δ Thursday, March 7th, 2013

Δ Join Domain

How to join workstation to domain

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Have you ever needed a script that would join a machine it to a domain? That's exactly what
this does. Using the class Win32_ComputerSystem and JoinDomainOrWorkGroup, it
automates the process of joining machines to a domain.

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Δ Friday, March 1st, 2013

Δ Chrome 1722 Error

How to resolve the 1722 error

Okay, so the fix was removing the Google Chrome keys in Wow6432Node. You can automate
this by adding a reg.exe DELETE command to your script.

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