Monthly Archives: July 2008

Unknown's avatar illiniguy 2:43 pm on July 9, 2008
Tags: iis, windowsxp   

Hiding Windows Components in Windows XP

Something that could really come in handy for those involved in setting up PCs.  I was working on a laptop here and noticed the list of Windows Components on the Add/Remove Components menu was missing every component except the basic networking ones.  I was looking in particular for IIS, as I need to install it for some ASP.NET work.

Sure enough, there’s a ‘config’ file that controls which options are available in the Add/Remove window.  See the file c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf (note that ‘inf’ is a hidden Windows folder).  Credit to this forum post.

Unknown's avatar illiniguy 7:16 pm on July 5, 2008  

Font Issue – Firefox 3 on Mac OS X

Just upgraded the wife’s Mac to Firefox 3, seemed to be painless and straightforward.  Until she went to use it the first time herself and some sites would show garbled text, what looked like squished fractions for certain text on web pages.  Only certain sites, only certain text.  Wikipedia is one that is usually affected.

Unfortunately not much information can be found on MozillaZine or most support forums.  Mainly because it’s kind of hard to describe or find the right search terms for.  But I did find a support post finally that pointed me to the true fix: disable the Helvetica Fractions font in Font Book.

Hope this helps save an hour of someone else’s time 😉