I often get asked how to speed up a website. Here are 2 of the easiest and quickest ways to dramatically improve the performance of your website. I am assuming you have root access to either your VPS or CentOS installation. Let's begin: Edit the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Find: KeepAliveTimeout Change To: KeepAliveTimeout 100 Close and…
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Windows 7 Can’t Start Print Spooler
This fixed the issue and credit to the following MS Answers Discussion: Click Here... This behaviour occurs if existing printer drivers are corrupt. I'd suggest that you remove all the installed printers and reinstall the Windows 7 printer drivers if available. To remove a printer: 1. Click the "Start" button, type PRINTER in the search…
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Force Shut Down of Windows Service
Sometimes when you are trying to stop or restart a Windows service you get the dreaded Status of "Stopping" and through the Services GUI you are stranded with no further options. There is a command line work around that I will outline here that forces the termination of a service. First we need to identify…
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Office 365 Winmail.dat Fix
You're here because you're sending email to people with an attachment but they're receiving the attachment as a winmail.dat file. This is because Office 365 uses Exchange as the mail server and this is how it manages attachments and is used to preserve Rich Text formatting. Common receivers of your email with this issue are…
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