Thomas Freudenberg

Confessions of a caffeine addict

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All Firefox Extensions Gone after upgrading to 2.0.7
Today I upgraded Firefox to 2.0.7, which fixes a flaw in the QuickTime plugin . However, after the upgrade Firefox didn't load any of the extensions I have installed Fortunately I found this thread in the support forum. Simply delete extensions.ini...
Virtual PC 2007 released
Earlier today Microsoft released Virtual PC 2007 . Generally this wouldn't be worthwhile to be mentioned on my blog. However, I'll write this nevertheless because whenever I install Virtual PC, I want to customize the path where the files for the virtual...
Remote Access to SQL Server Express
Today I tried to access a SQL Express server remotely for the first time. Because I'm writing this you may already guess that I had some trouble. In fact, I got several different error messages while playing around with configuration of the SQL server...
Windows Live Messenger FAQ
Thanks to Rich Mercer for inviting me to the Windows Messenger Live Beta program. Today Scobleizer points to LiveSide , which on its parts links to the Windows Live Messenger FAQ . No more annoying tabs...
Setting up exception handling in Visual Studio
Event though Visual Studio 2003 has been released almost two years ago, there are still some features I haven't seen before. Today, Tim Schwallie has posted an article at CodeProject , how to set up exception handling in Visual Studio. Just type Ctrl...
Broken Start Menu
Every now and then my start menu is broken. I.e. the left area normally showing last used applications is black, and sub menus for items such as "All Programs", "Administrative Tools" do not open. Google led me to this forum thread , where they blame...