Do you have a process that won’t die? Tired of searchindexer.exe calling you at home to harrass you for the rent? Do you have credit card debt?

Your solution is here! OK, what you want to do to prevent searchindexer.exe (searchprotocolhost.exe) from spawning everytime some MS product loads, just follow these simple steps:

1. Start > Run
2. Enter ’services.msc’ and hit Enter.
3. Find ‘Windows Search’
4. Punch the screen (just kidding)
5. Double-click (on the Win Search item)
6. Set ‘Start-up type’ to ‘Manual’.
7. Click the ‘Stop’ button if it is enabled (because that means the service is running)
8. Click the ‘Log On’ tab
9. Select each hardware profile item on the list, one at a time, and click ‘Disable’ for each one.

That should stop it from running without hacking your system to bits. Now, I have to say that I have NO IDEA what this is going to do to the searchability of your MS products. I mean, if Outlook is firing it up, it must be indexing your e-mail with it or something, so who knows what effects it could have ultimately. But in the mean time, enjoy the CPU time you’ll save, which I believe translates to energy savings as well. It must, right?

If I’m wrong, educate me.

I finally got the Zonet ZEW2501 USB Wifi dongle working with the 2.6.22 kernel in Ubuntu. It was quite a hassle. If you can, shop around for something which linux plugs ‘n’ plays with, rather than going through all this. But I would guess that if you found this post, it’s probably too late.

So on to the guide (I posted it on the ubuntu forums): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3191237#post3191237

I have released a kit which aims to make life a little easier for those of you who want to spruce up the SWFUpload interface with some style. An example using the tango desktop project theme:

DISCLAIMER: I know this page could use some work. Please offer constructive criticism.

What is Condiments for SWFUpload?

It’s a kit that can help you get started with SWFUpload by providing a pretty good HTML sample, initialization script that could be customized, callback script, and css to make things look nice.

The picture above shows how the thing will look if you use the base style + the tango desktop project override styles and icons (icons are included).

Instructions

Here’s my first stab at some directions for this kit:

1. Download Condiments for SWFUpload v1. It was built to work with SWFUpload 1.0.2.
2. Unzip the package to a temporary directory.
3. Open the ‘base’ folder. Copy the files in here to your web root.
4. Optional but recommended: Open the ‘tango’ folder. Copy the files in there to your web root.
5. Open /js/swfupload/init.js and configure the flash_path and upload_script properties.
6. Open /upload_template.html and copy that code to the location where you want the uploader to show up on your site. Fix the paths to the scripts and css while you’re there.
7. See if things are working (at least as far as styling goes).

Unless I forgot something, that should take care of it. This is my first release, so I’m looking for feedback and/or contributions.

Other Information

Tested and looked good on FF 2.0.0.3 and IE7.

Tango Desktop Project icons are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.

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