Drewcorp Coding and Technology

I wrote recently about some correspondence I had with UPEK support to remove the “Encrypted Archive” menu items from the context menu of the whole file system. I thought it was a bit of a nuisance and wanted it removed, so UPEK immediately provided me with a registry key to delete that would solve my [...]

It didn’t bug me until today but alas, it eventually got to me. Windows Live Messenger on Windows 7 has a new home in the quicklaunch area and I’m not the only one who has found it annoying. Want to put it back in the system tray (at the bottom right where other notifications show [...]

A fairly specific title, to be sure. I recently wiped my laptop and used this opportunity to streamline much of my system as well as to officially upgrade to Windows 7. One of my favorite features of my laptop – the Dell XPS 1530 – is the built-in UPEK biometrics fingerprint scanner. Unfortunately, the dell-supplied [...]

A miracle of modern technology came up a while ago under the optional updates section of my Vista Laptop. Most of the components Windows Live offered were uninteresting to me. Family Safety (Parental Controls), Live Call, Live Mail, Photo Gallery (similar to Picasa), Toolbar (I absolutely hate toolbars), Outlook Connector, etc… Live Messenger I’ve used [...]

I’ve lived with this issue for some time, but I hadn’t seriously considered it a real issue since I actually like Office Live and I often forget to use it when I have opportunity. But eventually I came to the point where I got the picture, and don’t need the constant reminders every time I [...]

Ok I just have to vent here. I’m doing some tech work fixing this nice woman’s problematic computer. The problem itself is easy to explain – she downloads viruses from Limewire like millions of other people and pays the price. That, and her CD-reader is buggy. But that’s not the issue I bring you today. [...]

I stumbled across a strange problem today. I was called to a home where I was told that Adobe Flash Player was giving errors. Easy fix, I thought. The problem presented when the user was forwarded a link to a YouTube video and gave the error message: “Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or [...]