Windows 7

Bypass Adobe Illustrator’s 4GB Memory Limit

Type ‘bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072’ into command prompt and reboot* In cmd prompt CD to ‘%VC2010 install folder%\VC\bin’ and run vcvars32.bat Cd to ‘%Illustrator install folder%\Support Files\Contents\Windows\’ and run ‘editbin /LARGEADDRESSAWARE Illustrator.exe’ * Can cause some instability issues on some PCs, run ‘bcdedit /deletevalue IncreaseUserVa’ afterwards and reboot to revert Brad FettesA seasoned Senior Solutions […]

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Windows

SABnzbd – Change Base Folder

This one really frustrated me, I switched from HellaNZB to SABnzbd (after many years of loyalty) so that I could start using SickBeard. When it came time to configure where my downloaded files end up I found I could only change the last part of the file path and the root, or the base folder, […]

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Windows

Close Skype

As much as I love Skype, it does have it’s annoyances on virtually every platform I’ve used it on. The newest Windows 7 version of Skype hides the option to exit. The big X at the top right only minimizes it and there’s no File menu but rather a Skype menu which does not have […]

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