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Fierr adds a more helpful "server not found" page to Firefox
Fierr is a Firefox add-on (compatible up to 4.0b8pre) that replaces the default "Unable to connect" page with a more beautiful, functional page.
As Ghacks reports, Fierr adds several buttons to the default page:
Back takes you to the previous page (assuming there is one).
Reload starts a periodic reloading of the page; it's like "redial" for the page – it keeps trying to load it again ...
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Over at The Windows Club, a user has contributed a handy little utility, which takes care of some common problems that affect Internet Explorer.
IE Restorator can reset Internet Explorer to its default settings, re-register both 32 and 64-bit version of IE, and perform Winsock resets and flush the DNS cache.
It's also totally portable and makes an excellent addition to your flash drive or ...
Just yesterday I wrote about FixWin, a free program which helps fix a number of Windows Vista and Windows 7 errors. It's a lot like Microsoft's web-based FixIt solutions. Today, there's another option and it comes straight from Microsoft.
Their new Fix It Center is a program you can download for free which provides automatic fixes for a wide range of bugs and annoyances. Choose the issue you ...
Microsoft's FixIt solutions generally work well, but sometimes they just take way too long to run -- especially on Vista and Windows 7. Some of them also require a little more interaction than I'd prefer: I know where the registry key is to fix that stupid bug where DVD drives disappear from My Computer, I just want a point-and-click way to do it!
Fortunately, The Windows Club has a nice ...
Even though it's getting a little long in the tooth, plenty of PC users are still perfectly happy with Windows XP. Of course, that doesn't mean running Windows XP is always a trouble-free experience. It's got its fair share of issues. Thankfully, though, there are loads of great programs out there which make fixing little annoyances as simple as point-and-click.
Programs like XP Quick Fix ...
Earlier today, reports were flying all around the blogosphere about a critical, holy-crap-its-the-apocalypse bug that had been uncovered in the Windows 7 RTM. The bug happens when running chkdsk - which becomes RAM-hungry under certain specific circumstances, gets all crazy-like, then causes a BSOD (which I argue is more like a feature of Windows than a bug). Chris123NT posted the news yesterday ...
