The Web site you seek

Cannot be located, but

Countless more exist.

*

Chaos reigns within.

Reflect, repent, and reboot.

Order shall return.

*

Windows NT crashed.

I am the Blue Screen of Death.

No one hears your screams.

*

Stay the patient course.

Of little worth is your ire.

The network is down.

*

A crash reduces

Your expensive computer

To a simple stone.

*

Serious error.

All shortcuts have disappeared.

Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

USE dbname –Enter the name of the database you want to reindex

DECLARE @TblName varchar(255)
Declare @Indexname varchar(50)

DECLARE TableCursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_type = ‘base table’

OPEN TableCursor

FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TblName
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN

DECLARE INdexCursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT     i.name AS IndexName
FROM         sysobjects o, sysindexes i
WHERE   (o.id = i.id and o.name = @tblName) AND (i.status = 18450 OR   i.status = 2097152)

OPEN IndexCursor

FETCH NEXT FROM INdexCursor INTO @IndexName
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN

DBCC INDEXDEFRAG (dbname, @tblname, @Indexname)

FETCH NEXT FROM INDexcursor INTO @Indexname
END

CLOSE IndexCursor

DEALLOCATE IndexCursor

FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @TblName
END

CLOSE TableCursor

DEALLOCATE TableCursor

It’s easy to configure and runs pretty much by itself, and comes with 2GB. If you fancy using it, use my referral code and we both get an extra 256MB of storage.

Several ways to do this on the internet involve editing the registry, this is something that doesn’t appear to work any more.

The only way I’ve found that works is to edit the computers group policy (start > run > gpedit.msc). Under Administrative Templates and Windows components, you’ll find Windows Messenger. Simply set “Do not allow windows messenger to be run” to enabled.
Thats it.

Update: This doesn’t work for Live Messenger, one method I have found that uninstalls WLM completely is to run a command prompt (as administrator), and simply type: msiexec /x {B1403D7D-C725-4858-AACC-7E5FA2D72859}.

I recently upgraded to Windows Vista Home Premium. “Why?!” I hear you all cry. Well, it was simply to take advantage of being able to use more then ~3GB of ram. Which I am now doing, having wacked in 8GB of some rather shiny OCZ pc8500 memory.

A few issues abounded once I’d installed, one rather annoying one being that my 500GB second hard drive (I run a 74GB Raptor as my main disk) had been marked as ‘Invalid’ in disk management. Not being willing to switch the disk to another machine, copy the data, format, copy the data back and then reinstall the disk in my windows computer, I needed another solution.

Which was found in the rather excellent disk utility TestDisk.

After extracting the TestDisk archive to a folder, run the program, select the relevant disk, analyse it, set it as a primary partition and then reboot.

Thats it.