Category Archives: troubleshoot

Troubleshoot: Solve Windows ink Wacom pen scrolling instead of selecting issue

Posted on May 22, 2018 by admin

Pen tablet scrolling instead of behaving as normal. Issue happened after routine Windows update. Open Wacom Tablet Properties, selecting Mapping, uncheck Windows Ink option. As a safe-guard, open Pen & Windows Ink Settings Disable related items as well.

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Prestashop 1.7: Smarty error blank page on front end if adding new language manually

Posted on March 7, 2018 by admin

http://forge.prestashop.com/browse/BOOM-3486 Error: When adding a new language in the backend (localization->languages), there is no option to enter the locale, resulting in an empty locale field in the table ps_lang. This results in a smarty error on frontend when selecting the … Continue reading →

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Prestaship 1.6 Fix for Contact form invulnerable to spam bots

Posted on March 1, 2018 by admin

Contact form is vulnerable to spam bot. Captcha does not help in this case. Fix here – https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/pull/8168/files Useful information on how to build an anti spam bot contact form without captcha http://www.nfriedly.com/techblog/2009/11/how-to-build-a-spam-free-contact-forms-without-captchas/ Update: Doesn’t work well against some automated … Continue reading →

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How to fix Sony Vegas Black Screen rendering error

Posted on September 1, 2017 by admin

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QVPSOBj3sQ In timeline Right click affected video, propeties > Switches > Disable Resample File menu Options> Preferences > uncheck close media files when not the active application Restart the application and try. Should work.

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Troubleshoot: Reclaim Disk Space from Drive C By Clearing iTunes Backups and Data

Posted on August 10, 2017 by admin

Drive C disk space went critically low to almost 0 Gig! Uninstalled many programs which didn’t help much. Initially I thought Adobe software cache was the culprit based on this link… but mine was only taking up around 200MB http://marcschultz.com/blog/adobes-abuse-of-hard-drive-storage-space/ … Continue reading →

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Troubleshoot: Fix Internet Explorer 8 mess up WordPress themes

Posted on August 1, 2017 by admin

Use this service to test the pages https://netrenderer.com https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/ https://ckon.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/how-to-fix-internet-explorer-8/ Download virtual machines Test Microsoft Edge and versions of IE8 through IE11 using free virtual machines you download and manage locally. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/screenshots/

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Easy Fancybox: Solution for Iframe no-scroll issue in mobile

Posted on September 9, 2016 by admin

Source: https://alucard-blog.blogspot.sg/2016/06/how-to-fix-fancy-boxeasy-fancybox.html How to fix fancy box scroll not working in mobile. Using wordpress plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-fancybox/ In Easy Fancybox, you will see these 2 lines in the jquery.fancybox-1.3.7.js: (do a folder search for id=”fancybox-content” to get better idea of how … Continue reading →

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WAMP: Troubleshooting tips

Posted on June 20, 2016 by admin

After fresh install wampserver, some configurations need to be changed, or you’ll get 403 Forbidden error for setting up virtual directories (url links for local machine) C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.17\conf\httpd.conf <Directory /> AllowOverride none Require all denied </Directory> change to: <Directory /> # … Continue reading →

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Prestashop: Editing orders from customers or after delivered status

Posted on June 12, 2016 by admin

Source: https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/276384-solvedunable-to-modify-customer-order-from-backoffice/?tab=comments#comment-1388383 Back Office—->Orders—>Statuses—>Preparation in Progress(Or any status which is set as default), I unchecked “Show Delivery PDF.” Status should not have “delivered” option. In table ps_order_history remove this order’s “Delivered” state https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/276384-solvedunable-to-modify-customer-order-from-backoffice/#entry1388383 (Not sure if necessary, should test) In … Continue reading →

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phpmyadmin: mysql export Simplified Chinese utf csv gibberish text issue

Posted on May 19, 2016 by admin

The database collation is utf8_unicode_ci but can’t guarantee the Chinese text encoding was 100% correct during data entry (may have mixed with Traditional Chinese?) When we use the usual route in phpmyadmin to export the data to .csv, the generated … Continue reading →

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