Archive for the ‘windows’ tag
Hosts file on Windows Vista
Getting hosts file (for DNS resolution) to work on Windows vista could be aggravating because of all the security and access control that it has in place. In my case, I couldn’t get it to honor the entries in my hosts file. Commonly proposed solutions modifying UAC, and flushing DNS cache didn’t work for me.
Today I found this. stopping/restarting dns cache service worked. Not sure how this is different from flushing-dns but it worked for me.
> net stop dnscache
> net start dnscache
Blogging using Zoundry Raven
Now that I have started blogging regularly, I started looking for a blog client that would allow me greater flexibility and efficiency. Without much research, I decided to try Windows Live Writer thinking that it is from Microsoft.
The installation took 25 minutes and finally failed on my Windows Vista. I was flabber ghasted that a simple client to write blog would take that long to install. I didn’t try it again.
Quick search on internet and I found Zoundry Raven. And yes, this is my first post using zRaven 