Tag: Windows XP

Firefox 3.0 freezes waiting to resolve safebrowsing-cache.google.com in DNS

My current daytime setup is for various reasons a Windows XP installation with Ubuntu Jaunty running inside VirtualBox. I use Microsoft Windows for Outlook, SQL Navigator and some web browsing while using the Linux installation for development. This morning I started Firefox in Windows XP, changed focus to VirtualBox or some other window, and when… Continue reading Firefox 3.0 freezes waiting to resolve safebrowsing-cache.google.com in DNS

The case of the failing ant copy filterset

I wanted to set a couple of Windows environment variables from Ant. The environment key-value pairs are stored on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerEnvironment key in the registry. As a starting point I used the registry editor to export all keys. I called the file environment.reg.template and modified it to look something like this: Windows Registry Editor… Continue reading The case of the failing ant copy filterset

Using F-Secure Health Check to save hard disk space

After my struggle to install Flash I finally managed to run F-Secure Health Check on the only computer running Windows in the house, my gaming computer with with 512 megabytes of RAM and only 40 gigabytes hard disk drive. It is almost ancient by today’s standards and I had old versions of numerous softwares. At… Continue reading Using F-Secure Health Check to save hard disk space

Installing Adobe Flash Player on Windows XP: Problems and solution

Yesterday I wanted to run the excellent F-Secure Health Check web application on my gaming computer. The health check only runs in Internet Explorer, but I don’t use IE if I can avoid it and apparently I had no Flash Player working with Internet Explorer 7. When I tried to install the Flash Player from… Continue reading Installing Adobe Flash Player on Windows XP: Problems and solution