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It may happen that the option to display hidden files and folder is disabled or is not working. You can try either one of the following tricks to fix this problem:

1. • Click Start, then click Run and type regedit
   • Navigate to folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL
   • Double click the key CheckedValue and enter the value 1
   • Close the registry editor.
2. • Click Start, then click Run and type cmd
   • Type regsvr32 /i browseui.dll and press OK in the confirmation windows
   • Type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll and press OK in the confirmation windows

Sometimes you might notice problems opening the Network connections. For example all connections have disappeared, or when you create an Internet connection you might find the options Network Connection Dial Up Modem and broadband connection with user name and password are grayed out.
In order to troubleshoot this you have first to check if the service Remote Access Connection Manager is enabled, so do the following these steps:

1. Open Control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
2. Scroll down to Remote Access Connection Manager anche check if it's enabled
3. If it's not enabled, double click it and then click Start

If you got the error message Error 126: specified module could not be found when starting the service, do the follwing steps:

1. Click Start and then Run...
2. Type cmd and press Enter
3. Type regsvr32 netshell.dll and press Enter
4. Type regsvr32 netcfgx.dll and press Enter
5. Type regsvr32 netman.dll and press Enter

If you get the error message specified module could not be found for any of those commands, those files might be missing from the \Windows\System32 directory. Just copy those files from another PC having the same operating system, or restore them from the XP Setup CD doing the following steps:

1. Insert the Windows XP Setup CD in the CD player
2. Click Start, type cmd and press Enter
3. In the General tab click Expand file...
4. In the File to restore box enter the filename you want to expand, i.e. netcfgx.dll
5. In the Restore from box enter the path of the compressed file in the Setup CD, i.e. H:\i386\netcfgx.dl_ (or just click Browse and search for the file in the CD)
6. In the Save file to box enter C:\Windows\System32 (assuming C: is the drive where Windows XP is installed)
7. Click Expand

Now you can redo the regsvr32 commands for the expanded files, and then try to enabled the Remote Access Connection Manager service. When enabled, you will be able to browse the Netword connections page and create all kind of connections.

Since PHP 5.2.x it may happen to find unexpected empty output on regular expressions (preg_replace, preg_match, etc...) when parsing very long strings. This bug is caused by a restrictive limit of pcre.backtrack_limit directive. The default value is 100000, so it can handle strings up to 100000 characters. It would make more sense to change the limit to a higher value, even 20MB. The same change can be applied to the pcre.recursion_limit directive.

Both directives can be changed in the php.ini file:

pcre.backtrack_limit=20971520
pcre.recursion_limit=20971520

or by ini_set():

ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', 20971520);
ini_set('pcre.recursion_limit', 20971520);

Iconlook is a very good search engine for icons. All you need to do is enter a keyword, and you'll see all the icons associated to that keywords. You can also browse icons by tags and choose the image size (12z12, 16x16, 22x22, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 128x128).

Styleneat is a free web service to organize and optimize CSS. You can sort selectors and properties, format the code on a single line or multiple lines. You can paste the CSS in a textarea, or upload it as file, or enter the URL.