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Can’t Cancel Print Job in Windows Vista?
The other day I ran into an odd problem–one which actually seems not uncommon in Windows Vista, to judge from some Googling I did. For some reason, a print job I was trying wouldn’t print. Not only would it not print, but when I opened the print queue that job was still in there, and would refuse to be canceled or delete. When I would try to print anything else, it would not print until the hung print job would complete. It took a while to figure out what to do about this. I discovered that if I restarted the “Print...
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Frequently, when I am debugging or which to make a modification to a theme, I am trying to find a particular reference somewhere in the PHP files. The obvious solution is to go to Windows Explorer and search the theme directory for the word I’m looking for–that particular identifier. After all, it searches files contents, right? Sometimes. Windows Explorer searches contents of some files, but not others. To fix this, follow these instructions. Note that these instructions are for Windows Vista Home Edition. Here are instructions...
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