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Yes, Microsofts web site has some interesting content, such as this article. As I like to print stuff to PDF to read on my PDA, I will usually search all over for a “printer-friendly” link immediately. Alas, while MS pages have one in IE (Internet Explorer),

no such luck in Firefox:

nor the weirdo of browsers, Opera:

So, to print the page, simply add “?pf=true” to the end of the URL so http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/gps.mspx becomes http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/gps.mspx?pf=true
Beat MS at their own game. Hope it helps.

Goheer has created a very nifty utility to greatly improve on the windows task switcher (Ctrl + T) with clickable icons and thumbnails of the open windows. There is also a power toy doing something similar but why use MS when you can avoid it? One more reason not to upgrade to Vista. 

More soon on flickr.

When running gpupdate (XP and above) and event ID 1091 (”The Group Policy client-side extension Security failed to log RSOP (Resultant Set of Policy) data. Please look for any errors reported earlier by that extension.”) is logged, you might get rid of this error by typing in succession the following commands at the command prompt in the %windir%\system32 directory:

regsvr32 /n /i userenv.dll
regsvr32 /u scecli.dll
regsvr32 scecli.dll

Then run gpundate again and check the application log to see if the issue persist.

Having bought a Honda Jazz in Thailand I was looking all over the web for an owner’s manual in English (the supplied version is in Thai which is tedious for me to read). Here I finally found it.