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Error writing the value’s new contents (Windows Registry Editor)

I got this error when trying to change some configuration settings for my anti-virus (TrendMicro WFBS on Windows Server 2003)
‘Cannot edit LocalServerPort:
Error writing the value’s new contents’
As usual, when something I don’t like happens on my computer or on other parts of my life, I ask my friend Google about it, the suggested solutions were [...]

Install Symfony Without PEAR

A lot of web hosts have limited or nonexistent support for PEAR, the pear command will throw errors on most commands or not work at all, in order to install Symfony on such hosts you will need to download the Symfony package, copy Symfony files to your home directory and make them easily accessible from [...]

Firefox crashes: How to detect bogus extensions

Mozilla Crash Reporter

Today, whenever I used the built in Firefox search function and as soon as I typed the first letter of my phrase, Firefox suddenly crashed and displayed the well known Mozilla Crash Reporter window (image below).

Sending a crash report to complain about my issue won’t help me (specially), and won’t help Mozilla people too much, [...]

Clear Firefox cache – the fastest way

Firefox clear cache

Firefox creators made things really user friendly IMO

You can clear Firefox cache by following these three steps:

Press Ctrl+Shift+Del
Choose the time range and tick the part of your history you wanna get rid of (Browsing and Download History, Forms & Search Data, etc…), you may need to click the arrow to show those details
Click “Clear Now”

After [...]

What is the best free PhotoShop alternative?

gimp

The GIMP is the oldest and surely the best free open source image manipulation program, there are many forums that support it an you can find tutorials very easily.

The Gimp is available on UNIX, Windows and Mac OS and can be downloaded for free at http://www.gimp.org/downloads/.