Archive for March, 2012
Sleeping in a batch script, the timeout command
Quick tip. When you need to pause in a batch script for a few seconds you can use the timeout command You could combine this with a loop if you want to repeatedly run a command with a timed pause between each run @echo off cls :start SendMailConsole.exe timeout 15 goto start
PNG Images showing as a red cross in Windows XP Internet Explorer
Recently had a problem where certain images in internet explorer were failing to display. With a bit of investigation it turned out that the images in question were all PNG types. Clearing the internet cache was the first suggestion which had no results so after a deeper dig I found the following solution worked [...]
Progress Bar Lag on Windows Vista, 7
I’m sure if you have been using VB throughout the various releases of Windows you will have combated several issues that arise when Microsoft’s latest and greatest release hits the market. My latest niggle was the animation to the progress bar bought into effect from Windows Vista, to make the progress bar value change look [...]