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Network drives going offline, but showing online – Windows 7 (64-bit, SP1)

by on Dec.30, 2013, under Techie

I ran into a problem after reloading my new SSD and directly mapping my Documents, Videos, Music, etc. to my unRAID network shares. The share where these folders are is listed as “Always available offline” so I can ensure I have a local cache in case of a network or unRAID failure. The They would show online everywhere EXCEPT when I was playing a game (Bioshock 2 in this case) that put it’s save files in Documents\…\… it would error as it had trouble creating the save or reading current saves. I would also see issues with GameSave Manager when it would try to backup my saves, but if I would click on “Open Archives” and then scroll down to where my Computer listed all my network drives I would see the red X next to them and simply clicking on them would make it all work again.

So far most articles I fine relate to Windows 7 using a DFS network share, but in my case it’s a stand-alone network. I am testing the below Solutions (#2) that I found at http://www.syswow64.co.uk/2012/09/windows-7-offline-files-will-not-go.html

Option 2 Configure Forced silent auto reconnection

1. Click Start, type REGEDIT in search bar, and then click OK.

2. Locate and click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache

3. Click Edit, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.

4. Type SilentForcedAutoReconnect, and then press ENTER to name the value.

5. Double-click SilentForcedAutoReconnect.

6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.

Will see if this helps or not.

NOTE: In my Network Adapter settings I have all options that are default enable. I also removed IPv6 support though since my LAN doesn’t need IPv6.

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Non-UAC friendly apps annoying you in Windows 7/8? ElevatedShortcut!

by on Dec.20, 2013, under Techie

(Search) Everything! and RealTemp were annoying me since they aren’t UAC friendly. A bit of search and I found ElevatedShortcut which works great for Windows 7 (at least) and is suppose to be just as good on Windows 8. Perfect way to keep from being annoyed by commonly used (non-UAC friendly) apps while keeping the notification level set at defaults.

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Problem with Reviews in WooCommerce 2.0.20 not showing

by on Dec.14, 2013, under Techie

Currently I’ve been working on a new site for JoeFrank.com and with the help of a designer it is almost ready to launch, but the problem is now that I can not see (if I add via Admin) nor Add (as a customer would) any Reviews. After a lot of hunting around I found that the following was missing from my “../wp-content/themes/canvas/functions.php”:

add_action('woocommerce_product_tabs', 'woocommerce_product_reviews_tab', 30);
add_action('woocommerce_product_tab_panels', 'woocommerce_product_reviews_panel', 30);

I add those lines in and got an error about “../wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/single-product/tabs/reviews.php” missing (basically) and when I looked there was no file. I downloaded a new copy of WooCommerce and that file is not there at all. After a fair bit of hunting I found the following code from a GitHub post (when I find the post I’ll link to it):

<?php
/**
* Reviews tab
*
* @author WooThemes
* @package WooCommerce/Templates
* @version 1.6.4
*/

global $woocommerce, $post;

if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<div class="panel entry-content" id="tab-reviews">

<?php comments_template(); ?>
</br>

</div>
<?php endif; ?>

This works just fine for my needs with the custom theme and the version of WooCommerce we are using.
Finally after all of this I was still getting 1 error. The error was “uasotrt() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in…” and was in the “../wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/woocommerce-template.php” file on line 795. I just went in and commented out LINE 795: uasort( $tabs, '_sort_priority_callback' ); since I have no other tabs the way it is setup.

Now Reviews show perfectly and people can add them! Hope some one else finds this post and saves themselves a few days of research and random troubleshooting to figure out a fix.

..or maybe it’s just me and everyone already knows.

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