Windows 7 failing to copy large files through network

I have faced problems copying large files (several hundreds megs) over a Windows Network between two Windows 7 boxes. During the copy, the process just freeze forever, and when trying to cancel it, it just tries forever without success.

At first I tough it was a antivirus/firewall issue, but disabling the software on both machines [...]

October 13th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Windows | Leave a comment

Two ways to check if a Registry Key exists using VBScript

The first one is using the method RegRead from WScript.Shell.

If the given key is not found, it will rise an error, so we need to use an On Error Resume Next (which I don’t really like).

We would need to pass to the function a string like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ (note the trailing \) if [...]

October 5th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Programming | 2 comments