Removal of Dead Links on a Web Site using Webmasters tools

"404 Not Found"

"Error 404"
 

"The requested URL [URL] was not found on this server."
 

"HTTP 404"
 

"Error 404 Not Found"
 

"404 File or Directory Not Found"
 

"HTTP 404 Not Found"
 

"404 Page Not Found"

One of most serious problems plaguing the World Wide Web (WWW)
today is that of broken hypertext links, which are a major annoyance to
browsing user.
The root of the problemlies in the current Web architecture’s lack of support for referential
integrity
If you delete a web page of information on your site or rename a whole site it will take a long time before the WebBots that index all the information on the WWW get round to cleaning up the 404 Errors.
You can speed up the process on Google by requesting the pages be removed from the search engine.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Sign in to Webmasters Tools
Enter your Gmail address and Password and log in
Enter the URLyou want removing for the web page
It will confirm it is not linked and then add to the pending removal list.
Check after 90 days to see if it has gone,
 

How to set up email account for me.com in Microsoft Outlook

After hours of fiddling around I have found that Outlook 2003 is not supported and access is via https://www.icloud.com/#mail after installing the icloud app on your Windows PC.


So if you are on Outlook 2007 or later and want to add an email account this is what you do.

Add new email account as IMAP, then

Settings are
incoming server: p01-imap.mail.me.com
outgoing server: p01-smtp.mail.me.com
leave SPA unchecked

More Settings; Advanced
Server Port Settings:
Incoming server IMAP: 993
Check This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)
Outgoing Server SMTP: 587 (or 25 if unchecked )
Uncheck  This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)

 

At present it creates an account and receives Emails and Notes created on an iPad but trying to reply gives an error message and will not send.

Still trying to resolve.

 

Mail server settings

Refer to your email app's documentation for information about how to use these settings. iCloud Mail uses the IMAP and SMTP standards supported by most modern email apps. iCloud does not support POP.

IMAP information for the incoming mail server

• Server name: imap.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
  If you receive errors when using SSL, try using TLS instead.
• Port: 993
• Username: example@icloud.com (use your @icloud.com address from your iCloud account)
• Password: Your iCloud password

SMTP information for the outgoing mail server

• Server name: smtp.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
  If you receive errors when using SSL, try using TLS instead.
• Port: 587
• SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
• Username: example@icloud.com (use your @icloud.com address from your iCloud account)
• Password: Your iCloud password

FrontPage 2003 Sharepoint Error Message "An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files"

Error Message

In FrontPage, when you point to Security on the Tools menu and then click Permissions, or if you try to create a new subweb, you may receive the following error message:

An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files. Authors - if authoring against a web server, please contact the webmaster for this server's site.

 WebMasters - please see the server's system log for more details.

In the Event Viewer on the server, the following error messages appear:

Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions:
(OS Error #-1073741795 Message: exception occurred at 0x00c00982)

-and-

Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions:
http://servername - Error #80002 Message: Unrecognized Windows exception (0xc000001d)

-and-

Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions:
Received empty response from Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions

You may also receive the following error message when you try to create a new project in Microsoft Visual InterDev:

An unexpected error occurs, accessing your web files.

See the server's System Event log for more information.

Workaround

If you cannot rejoin the domain, you must work around this problem by removing the accounts from the permissions. This usually involves resetting the permissions for the entire site. To do that, follow these steps.

NOTE: Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.

1. Right-click Start and then click Explore.
2. Locate the folder that contains your Web content, and then right-click that folder.
3. Click Properties.
4. Click the Security tab.
5. Look for accounts that do not display a friendly name but instead display something like the following:
   S-1-5-21-124525095-708259637-1543119021-15767
6. Select the unresolved accounts or groups, and then click Remove.
   
   Usually it is best to remove all accounts but leave the SYSTEM account with Full Control and the local Administrators group with Full Control.
7. Select the Apply to all subfolders and files check box, and then click OK.
8. Open the Web in FrontPage and re-add the accounts that you want to use. To do this, point to Security on the Tools menu, and then click Permissions.
9. On the Users tab, set the browse access by selecting the appropriate button at the bottom of the dialog box.
10. Click OK.

NOTE: If the preceding workaround does not resolve this problem, locate and delete unresolved SIDs in Users and Groups:

1. Open Users and Groups as follows:
   • On a Microsoft Windows NT 4.0-based computer, from the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Users and Groups.
   • On a Windows 2000-based computer, from the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Computer Management. Users and Groups appears as a node under System Tools.
2. Open each group to see the list of its members, and delete any unresolved SIDs.

Microsoft FrontPage Error Messages under Windows 8.1

When trying to Edit a WebPage using Microsoft Office 2003 Frontpage.

"There was an error when trying to run Frontpage (open as HTML) the command: failed"

Tried just about everything suggested on Forums.


Close FrontPage.
> > Click Start > Run and type in: regedit and click OK
> >
> > Click the plus signs until you are here:
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\FrontPage\Explorer\FrontPage
> > Explorer\Mappings
> >
> > Click the plus by Mappings and scroll down to and click once on the key
> > labeled:
> > htm dhtml dwt jhtml pht ssi
> >
> > Note: if you aren't using FP2003 it will read: htm dhtml jhtml pht
> > ssi
> >
> > In the right panel, the Data for the value name 0 should read similar to
> > this
> > for FrontPage 3003:
> > FrontPage (Open as HTML),C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\FRONTPG.EXE,html
> >
> > and this for FrontPage 2002:
> >
> > FrontPage (Open as HTML),C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE10\FRONTPG.EXE,html
> >
This didn't work

Only solution was to reinstall from Microsoft Office CD and select repair installation.
Reboot and repair was completed.

Superspeed USB 3.0

 

 

The third generation of the USB interface introduced in 2008. Called "SuperSpeed USB 3.0" (SS USB), it provides a 10x increase from 480 Mbps to 4.8 Gbps and also reduces CPU overhead by no longer continuously polling attached devices. In practice, USB 3.0 devices do not achieve a 1000% speed increase. For example, a USB 3.0 external hard drive may provide only a 50% improvement over its USB 2.0 counterpart, because the drive's latency and circuitry are limiting factors.

Plugs and Sockets Are Different
Although additional pins were added to 3.0, older USB 2.0 plugs insert into 3.0 sockets for backward compatibility. Type A 3.0 plugs can be inserted into 2.0 sockets, but only Type A. That is not the case with Type B 3.0 and Micro-B 3.0 plugs, because they have a larger footprint .

SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1) from the USB-IF
The SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1) Specification adds a 10 Gbps speed mode that uses a more efficient data encoding and will deliver more than twice the effective data through-put performance of existing SuperSpeed USB over enhanced, fully backward compatible USB connectors and cables. The specification extends the existing SuperSpeed mechanical, electrical, protocol and hub definition while maintaining compatibility with existing USB 3.0 software stacks and device class protocols as well as with existing 5 Gbps hubs and devices and USB 2.0 products.
•Delivers 10 Gbps USB data rate
     *  2x improvement over current SuperSpeed USB 5 Gbps data rate
•Improved data encoding for more efficient data transfer leading to higher through-put and improved I/O power efficiency
•Compatible with existing USB 3.0 software stacks and device protocols
•Works with both existing 5 Gbps and new 10 Gbps USB 3.0 hubs and devices, as well as USB 2.0 products


As technology innovation marches forward, new kinds of devices, media formats, and large inexpensive storage are converging. They require significantly more bus bandwidth to maintain the interactive experience users have come to expect. In addition, user applications demand a higher performance connection between the PC and these increasingly sophisticated peripherals. USB 3.0 addresses this need by adding an even higher transfer rate to match these new usages and devices.
USB continues to be the answer to connectivity for PC, Consumer Electronics, and Mobile architectures. It is a fast, bidirectional, low-cost, dynamically attachable interface that is consistent with the requirements of the PC platforms of today and tomorrow.
SuperSpeed USB brings significant performance enhancements to the ubiquitous USB standard, while remaining compatible with the billions of USB enabled devices currently deployed in the market. SuperSpeed USB will deliver 10x the data transfer rate of Hi-Speed USB, as well as improved power efficiency.
•SuperSpeed USB has a 5 Gbps signaling rate offering 10x performance increase over Hi-Speed USB.
•SuperSpeed USB is a Sync-N-Go technology that minimizes user wait-time.
•SuperSpeed USB will provide Optimized Power Efficiency. No device polling and lower active and idle power requirements.
•SuperSpeed USB is backwards compatible with USB 2.0. Devices interoperate with USB 2.0 platforms. Hosts support USB 2.0 legacy devices.

Disk Alignment Software. MiniTool Partition Wizard

I have used with success as detailed below but with some caution needed.

This is freeware, www.PartitionWizard.com .
I used this on a Samsung SSD 256GB drive which had my OS Windows 7 installed on it.
In case things went wrong I had done a backup of Windows 7 using Acronis True Image 2013.
Once I had selected the option to Align Partition the utility exits Windows and reboots.

 

 

Oddly once started in a DOS screen I noticed the partition being created was LBA 2048 but the size of the 256GB drive was being partitioned as  164500MB (160 GB).

After about 30 minutes the system rebooted and there were no problems apart from the partition size.

This was corrected using the Disk Management in Control Panel to extend the volume into the unallocated space as below.

 

 

After the first shutdown and restart the Chkdsk ran and corrected some orphaned entries.

Western Digital also has an alignment utility but only WD drives can be selected.

Paragon Alignment Tool v4.0 is available for purchase but since Windows 8.1 returns an error message on reboot " Stub Library wasn't initiated" and then opens back up in Windows 8.1 without running the disk alignment but reporting it is completed..

Oddly Aconis Disk Director 11 Home had no alignment option. A suggestion within Acronis Help said that just creating an image and recovering that image would resolve alignment issues but this did not work. The Partition was still not aligned after doing this.

Also many forums say that if you install Windows from any version after XP it is always aligned.

This was not the case on 2  PC's out of 5 that are on my Home Network which were installed from DVD Disk. There is a case for checking and running an alignment tool.



Disk Alignment - Does it Matter ?

In Windows (since XP) If you go START and run msinfo32.exe all the System info for your PC is displayed. It is a long document msinfo32.txt on earlier versions of Windows but about a quarter down you come to  Storage -Disks. Later Versions of windows  are easier to read and tabbed.
There is a line at the bottom of the disk info called Partition Starting Offset and a figure in bytes.
If you take this figure and divide it by 4K (4 x 1024)which is 4096 and end up with a whole number then your disk is "aligned".
example:- 1048576 divide by 4096 gives 256, a whole number.
If you end up with a decimal point your disk is "not aligned"
example:- 32256 divide by 4096 gives 7.875
Why is this important?

 

AS SSD  is a Freeware Utility that will do this much easier and also do a Benchmark test of disk performance. It  also works on conventional  hard drives bit is also a handy tool for SSD owners as it allows them to reveal the performance of their device and detect potential problems in due time/

Here is a SSD drive that is not aligned with RED Text in the top left and an overall  score of 411,due to low readings in the 4K-64 Thrd for read and write

 

 

After using an Alignment tool in another piece of Freeware called MiniTool Partition Wizard the results are improved and the SSD Drive now aligned.