Croudsourcing logo creation

As we are currently internally developing a new product, we needed a logo for it. Beside the many sites that offer you to design a logo in less than three days I also came across the site Wilogo.

What it does: you fill a request for a logo there and several (hundreds) of designs will then design a logo for you. After one to four days you simply select the one you like and pay the price. Normal rates are about 800 EURO up to 1500 EURO (plus VAT).

Great idea!

Nice mouse tool - Pitaschio

I just stumbled upon a nice mouse tool: Pitaschio

Basically, it allows you to configure mouse action to several functions. For example, you can configure that a wheel click on the title bar of a window minimizes it. Or, if you use the wheel on the title bar the window becomes transparent so you can view what is behind.

Beside this, it can also lock several keys like Caps Lock or the Windows key (good for Crysis :-).

"Security", "Sharing" and "Quotas" tabs missing in Windows XP

Today I came across a machine that had no "Security", no "Sharing" and no "Quotas" tab inside the Explorer for folders or drives (especially for the C: drive this is annoying).

Searching on the web for a solution just brought up the usual "You need to disable Simple folder sharing inside Folder options" that did not help at all.

Several hours of searching in very obscure forum systems and stumbling across ShellExView (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html) finally revealed the solution: Several system DLLs were not correctly registered inside the registry and thus the tabs were missing.

Using ProcessMonitor I was able to identify the dlls that were missing and created the following batch file:

REM Security tab
regsvr32 rshx32.dll

REM Quota tab
regsvr32 dskquoui.dll

REM Offline Files
regsvr32 cscui.dll

REM Previous Versions
regsvr32 twext.dll

REM Remote Storage
regsvr32 rsshell.dll

REM Distributed File System
regsvr32 dfsshlex.dll

Please note: This simply includes all extensions (Context Menu Handler and Property Sheets) I was able to identify. Some of them might not exist on your system and thus you might get a "File not found" error.

Once this script has run inside a command shell the tabs magically appeared again.