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August 2008 Entries

How to create dynamic Encrypted Website Payments (EWP) PayPal buttons

If you want to sell something on your website, perhaps something like a personalized kid's storybook, you can add a PayPal buy-button that will send the user to PayPal to make a payment to your PayPal account. You will get an email and then you can create and send the book to the buyer. The Html code that makes up the button (created manually or from the PayPal button factory) contains things like your PayPal account email, the item description and price and perhaps a few other parameters. However, someone knowledgeable could view the...

posted @ Friday, August 29, 2008 11:53 AM | Feedback (1) |

How I solved a Windows Update failure

I installed Windows XP SP2 on a Virtual PC drive and ran Windows Update. It wanted to immediately update to SP3 but the update failed so I downloaded SP3 and installed it manually. Then Windows Update wanted to do 18 more updates but they also failed. The error was: Problem: A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed There was no error code number. I ran across a posting with a solution. I copied these statements into the clipboard and then pasted them into a command prompt window. A bunch of "Succeeded" popups displayed and I OK'd them....

posted @ Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:39 PM | Feedback (0) |

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