The Browser Wars

It is interesting to know that even though it's been publicized and claimed that Firefox/Chrome are gaining, or have gained for that matter, a lot of market over Internet Explorer, is that actually true or just some myth made up by the competition?

Let us see what the visitors stats of a sister blog say about this.

I'll post some info from the stats:

Last Month Operating System views:

2,255 from Windows OS, any kind of Windows OS, which represented 83% of the viewers

328 from Macintosh which represented 12%

5% was just a bunch of random OS ranging from Linux/Unix to iPhones, Blackberries and Symbian based phones.

There is no surprise there as we all know that Microsoft is the owner of the market and that ain't changing anytime soon from what we can see, unless cloud computing takes on sooner than expected if ever.

Now, here comes the important part.

Pageview by browser:

930 views came from IE which represent a 34%

898 from Firefox which represent a 33%

490 from Chrome which represent 18%

304 from Safari which represent 11%

54 from Opera which represented 2%

And the rest are the rest.

From this we can see that even though IE is still reigning it is no longer doing so supreme in the field. Firefox is still the better choice for Windows users, from what we can understand from the stats, and Chrome is a little way too behind the competition in third place but I'll put my money over the latter since I trust Google more than Microsoft.

Greetings... and some Windows Bug you can easily fix!

Welcome to The Surge Tech Blog!

The purpose here is to talk a little bit about technology and also give out some useful tips to fix really, REALLY, awkward Windows Errors, some interesting projects, Linux and tips, or "pro-tips" and some other random curiosities.

To start this blog I'll post some awkward errors that I've found during my time working at a Medical Disposables Factory. These were a pain to fix but with time and dedication, AKA Google, we easily removed/fixed all the issues.

As a quick side note remember that you MUST be an Administrator to run this commands, no guarantee on power users or limited users here.

Error 0x000022:

This, from what I recall, was caused by not having enough permissions or because the Read/Write permissions on the Windows DLL/OCX files is incorrect for a designated user/group.

CACLS %systemroot%\System32\*.dll /E /G BUILTIN\Users:R

CACLS %systemroot%\System32\*.ocx /E /G BUILTIN\Users:R

shutdown -r

Error 0x80004015:

This error can be the result of a security decriptor error on Windows when trying to use the Windows Updater, usually happens in Windows XP but I recall seeing this on 2000 also though I don't know if it works or not.

Windows Batch:

sc sdset bits "D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)"

sc sdset wuauserv "D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)"

Windows VBS:

Option Explicit

on error resume next

dim oAU, oBITS, oComputer

dim oCommand, oFSO, oShell

do while lcase(oComputer) <> "quit"

' gather input

oComputer = InputBox("Enter the workstation's name, or type quit to exit")

' stop services

set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

set oBITS = GetObject("WinNT://" & oComputer & "/BITS")

oBITS.stop

set oAU = GetObject("WinNT://" & oComputer & "/wuauserv")

oAU.stop

' delete old jobs

set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting,Filesystemobject")

oFso.DeleteFile("\\" & oComputer & "\c$\Documents and Settings\All Users\application data\microsoft\network\downloader\*.*" & chr(34)), DeleteReadOnly

' set security descriptors on services

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.shell")

oCommand = "sc \\" & oComputer & " sdset bits " & chr(34) &"D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)" & chr(34)

oShell.RunoCommand

oCommand = "sc \\" & oComputer & " sdsetwuauserv " & chr(34) & "D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)" & chr(34)

oShell.RunoCommand

' start services

oBITS.start

oAU.start

loop

Rebuilding the TCP/IP Stack:

Yes, from time to time every solar/lunar eclipse, you may need to use this. Be warned that this should only be used when you've discarded hardware issues and you know Windows is still not a lost cause... heh, right.

@echo off

echo Resetting...

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt

echo Dumping...

netsh dump

exit