Windows is a family of client, server, and mobile operating systems, developed by Microsoft.
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Why are Win7 IE browers running in IE7 mode?
On our site we currently have approx. 50% of our IE7 users running Windows 7. However, Win7 was released with IE8 meaning that something is not right. Based on this, we made the assumption that the ...
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Why do some user agents have spam urls in them (and why are they always Opera/Presto User-Agents)?
If you go to (say) the last 100 entries (visits) to the botsvsbrowsers.com website (exact link, feel free to take a look: http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html ), you'd notice that ...
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Login Prompts in mod_auth_sspi showing up for aliased sites only
I've been trying to figure this out off and on for a few days now, and I think I just have a fundamental lack of understanding :)
I have Apache2 running in a windows environment serving up our ...
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Hosting a Website with Windows Azure
I may be completely misunderstanding what Azure is, but is it possible for me to host a basic website on Windows Azure?
I have a site that I've built in HTML and CSS that I'd like to upload to Azure, ...
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What is a generalized form creator that runs on .NET / Windows?
At the institution that I'm at, we've been looking for web applications that enable users to create and deploy their own forms. Similar applications are Wufoo, and google forms. Unfortunately, those ...
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Running Microsoft's IE VPCs on Windows 8
I am trying to run Microsoft's VPC VMs on Windows 8 but no luck.
As you may know, Microsoft's Virtual PC software doesn't work on Windows 8. They are recommended to use their new virtualisation ...
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What's the best body text font for Windows XP? [closed]
For my Windows testing, I am using XP, since that is what I have, and I am testing with Firefox and IE. I noticed that the Times, Georgia and Utopia fonts all look pretty bad in Firefox. I've noticed ...
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Unchecked read permissions for folder to password protect but now get 500(Internal Server Error)
I unchecked the read permissions for a folder I have on a Godaddy Windows shared host that I want password protected and it worked first time but since going back I get 500 (Internal Server) Error. ...
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.htaccess issue (500 - Internal Server Error) error
I was trying to learn how to edit and make a .htaccess file using a tutorial found at corz.org, I copied an existing .htaccess file from another site on my localhost and pasted the following content ...
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import.php parameter missing?
Whenever I try to delete or update any of my tables in phpMyAdmin I receive the following error:
1.import.php: Missing parameter: import_type.
2.tbl-alter.php missing parameters:field
I have ...
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Has Microsoft stopped offering the free Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image for IE 6 testing?
For some time now, Microsoft has made available free, stripped-down, time-limited Virtual PC images for testing web apps in older versions of IE. The most recent version is here:
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Website migration is not working for all computers
We got 2 servers on same network, Server-A and Server-B.
On Server-A (widows server 2003), we have IIS 5.2 and our website was hosted on it few month ago (about 7-8 months).
We bought a new server, ...
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Windows 7 - traceroute hop with high latency! [closed]
I've been experiencing this problem for quite a while, and it's quite frustrating. I'll do a traceroute, to www.l.google.com, for example. This is the result (please note: I will replace some parts of ...
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How to redirect a old URL using web.config (IIS)
I'm still very new to using URL rewrites and redirects and I'm having some problems on something I thought was quite simple...
I've just rebuilt a website and want to redirect the old URLs to the new ...
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Sending many email notification to users of website [closed]
Consider a website with many transaction in day. for each transaction (i.e: sending message from user A to user B) we must send notification email to the recipient.
suppose we must send 500,000 email ...
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Firefox renders differently on Linux and Windows [closed]
I know font rendering is very tricky and it will be different between browsers and operating systems (eg. Firefox and Chrome will render differently on Windows) but what I puzzled about is how the ...
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What is the difference of running WAMP or XAMPP between the different versions of windows? [closed]
I am going to run a small web server using WAMP or XAMPP apache. What is the difference between installing on Windows XP, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 2008 Web Edition, and ...
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How does Windows 8 appear on Google Analytics?
I'm trying to figure out how many Windows 8 users are using my website. On Google Analytics, I don't explicitly see the number 8 anywhere in the top 10 Windows operating system versions. I don't ...
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How do I install PHP 5.4.8 on a Win XP workstation?
I am trying to create a MediaWiki site on my WinXP workstation, and need to install PHP 5.4.8. I have downloaded and unpacked the binaries for PHP, but the install instructions are telling me to "Run ...
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Why does windows 7 takes 100MB from hard disk after partition? [closed]
Why does windows 7 takes 100MB from hard disk after partition?
Whenever I try to upgrade my operating system from windows XP to Windows 7, I get this thing after partition, whereas windows XP doesn't ...
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IIS throws HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable after installation of windows 8 [closed]
I was using IIS7.5 on Windows 7. Everything worked great.
I then installed Windows 8.
The shortcut link to my IIS7.5 stopped working, because all this was apparently moved to a windows.old folder.
I ...
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Can web applications running on IIS7 Windows Server 2008 R2 be forced to immediately detect changes to hosts file?
We have several web applications running on several load-balanced servers. We want to have our web applications communicate with each other without first traversing outside the load balancer.
For ...
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Unknown CSS font-family oddity with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8
I am seeing the following "oddity" with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8:
When declaring font-family: serif; I am seeing an old bitmapped serif font that I can't identify (see screenshot below) instead ...
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Are there any snippet software app for windows user?
I'm a web designer, and I'm used to collect snippets of code I find in the internet.
I found snippely as a great snippet app but it doesn't have export or import features when I'm going to different ...
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Is MochaHost as good as it sounds?
It's time for me to find a new web host, and I'm a bit overwhelmed by the selection. I need a Windows host. One provider that seems to stand out is MochaHost. Here are a few of the things that look ...
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prevent IIS from executing scripts in a specific directory
I have a php web application that allows file uploads to a specific directory.
I would like to prevent the execution of any file that is uploaded into that directory whether it is ASP, PHP, or ...
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How to create a cloud server based website? [closed]
i have bought a domain from go daddy. i have bought a cloud hosting windows 2008 server from rack space. how do i link my domain to my host server and how do i utilize Dreamweaver/fireworks to create ...
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How can I choose between Linux and Windows hosting? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I am a relative beginner when it comes to choosing web servers and hosting plans. I'm about to signup for a hosting ...
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2 domains 1 host package
I have a windows web hosting package.
I have 2 different domain names.
Can i point my first domain to the the hosting package and then run BlogEngine.NET and then point the second domain to the ...
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Free vector graphics package for Windows OR Linux
What is the most popular and/or feature complete vector graphics package for Windows and/or Ubuntu Linux? I keep finding 'Vector Art' sites but nothing about the software used to create it. Adobe must ...
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Huge difference in visits/hits between IIS logs and google analytics
I use google analytics to monitor visitors access, and I am very happy with it, easy to use blabla, you name it :)
Few days ago I copied IIS logs from website and used free/evaluation commercial log ...
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Is there anyway way to transfer .psd files from a windows machine to a mac without exposing other files? [closed]
I need to transfer photoshop files back and forth from my computer (mac) to a girls computer (windows) that I'm working with. The only problem with FTP is whoever is it exposes other files on the ...
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How can I hide my domain name or ip from users
I'm developing a windows application in C# along with an accompanying asp.net website. Both are hosted on a web server. I wish to disguise my server ip address and/or domain name so they are not ...
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Better to get a host with more CPUs or less but more powerful
I'm evaluating some dedicated servers with the aim of possibly moving to them.
One thing that is confusing to me is that there's a big price difference between servers with more CPU's compared to one ...
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Host your own website and dns server
I pay yearly big money for my websites' hostings, domain registrars .. etc.
My ip is dynamic and provider allows http port. In my local webserver, I can access to my websites like that: localhost:80 ...
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Impact of search engine optimization with hosting plan
I want to know is there a direct impact on the hosting plan.
Why i am saying is, most linux hosting plan gives us modules for search engine optimization but not in windows plans. I have couple of ...
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IIS 7 Still Serving old SSL Certificate [closed]
I installed a new SSL certificate into IIS7, removed the old certificate and setup the bindings for the new certificate - so https is now bound to the new certificate only.
I restarted IIS7 (and the ...
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Is there any recommended windows web hosting? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
My plan is to deploy a web site based on Asp.net + MS SQL server. I am not familiar with the windows web hosting ...
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Looking for recommendations for Windows Web hosting companies [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I've always used Linux web hosting companies such as Dreamhost and Media Temple. I have been asked to host a website ...
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Looking for Windows shared web hosting with PHP support [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I'm looking for Windows based shared web hosting which supports multiple hosted web sites (multiple domains). ...
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How can a website survive an untrusted environment?
Let's say I have an internal website that holds pretty important data (well, contest strategies for stuff like FIRST), which I am bound to host on a Windows server with literally no security. I can't ...
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Is it possible to install joomla on a windows server?
Is it possible to install joomla on a windows server and what might be the difficulties of going about and doing so. Our client has a windows dedicated box and they want joomla placed on their ...
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Migration from Windows to Linux hosting
I'm looking forward installing a CMS for my sites - most likely Joomla - but apparently Windows hosting doesn't support it. I was wondering what kind of changes I'd have to perform if I changed to ...
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font-weight on Windows
I've the following code:
p{
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-weight:100;}
It works on Mac OSX on Safari and Firefox, but the font-weight don't work on Windows in any browser.
Why? ...
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What Happen To Uploaded files in Windows Azure
I only started to use Windows Azure yesterday so I think this question is a Newbie question.
Lets say I use the deployed application that I have for a month, during this period I upload a lots of ...
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Tips on hosting a non-web framework based application on a Windows host (i.e. - not IIS, Apache, etc.)?
I've tried to research this question on the web using Google but anything related to hosting almost invariably brings up a ton of pseudo-review/affiliate sites.
I need to host a Windows application ...
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Are there any Shared Web Hosts that provide access to run Windows Services? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I'd like to be able to have a very lightweight Windows Service call some code on the Web Server at regular intervals. ...
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Are there huge differences between Safari versions on Windows and Mac OS?
I have recently engaged in a conversation where were people defending that you should test your websites on Safari for Windows and on Safari for Mac, because they're very different.
As a webmaster, ...
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Does GoDaddy support Microsoft Chart Controls
Does anyone know (or have running) if Chart Controls will work on GoDaddy's Windows Servers. They have ASP.NET 4.0 but is that enough?
Thanks!
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Archive of historic Firefox builds for Windows?
For testing web content in Firefox I'm searching for old versions of Firefox Windows installers. Evolt is not up to date with historic Firefox builds. I'm looking for just the main point releases. ...
