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Periodically hit a url with Windows Scheduler

Sometimes you have a task that you want to run every x minutes i.e. updating order statuses or sending abandoned cart emails. There are a few ways you can do this but our preferred method at The Site Doctor is to setup a Powershell Task in Windows Task Scheduler

IIS Url Rewrite appends trailing slash after page extension

I’m a big fan of IIS’s built in Url rewriting module, if you’re not using it, you should be to lowercase urls, set canonical urls and all sorts it’s great. One thing that caught me out when we started using it though was the fact that

Quick Tip: Quickly uninstall or change a program in Windows

I remembered a useful feature today in Windows, you can quickly get to the "Uninstall or change a program" window by: 1. Open a new Windows Explorer Window (Start > File Explorer): 2. Click "This PC" (if it's not already selected) 3. Click "

Stop windows lowering the music volume when a call starts

We've started using Sqwiggle to aid remote working which is awesome. The only issue is recently I've noticed that when someone starts a conversation or sends an instant message Spotify and Windows Media player reduced their volume and wouldn't come back up. Turns out

Quick Pro Tip: Running low on disk space? Delete your hiberfil.sys

I freed up about 10GB of space on my C drive this afternoon by simply disabling Hibernation: Before After Step 1: Open Command Prompt as an Administrator Step 2: Type powercfg -h off and hit enter -if nothing else is output then you've done it right: Step 3:

Native client cannot be found while installing SQL Server 64

We're having fun and games with the new internal dev server. We've got for Windows Server 2008 x64 for a laugh and today was a corker, while trying to install SQL Server 2005 x64 onto the box we repeatedly got an error along the lines of

Microsoft Expression Web and CSS -is it all it's cracked up to be?

After a number of months of hearing how great Microsoft's latest web development environment is -Microsoft Expression Web- I thought I would install it in place of Dreamweaver on my new laptop. I was -until today- pretty impressed with some of it's features, how well it

Automatically delete old IIS log files

This is a really useful little VBS script that I’ve been meaning to post for a while now (along with a couple of other little applications I’ve written for log file analysis). I don’t think I wrote this script but at the same time can’t recall

Free copies of the released versions of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007

This is still unconfirmed and somewhat word-of-mouth etc atm but if you check out Ian Moulster's blog you'll see his post about Microsoft giving away free copies of the release version of Vista and Office 2007 check out his blog post to find out more. Hopefully