John's Blog and Stuff

Sometimes, a Windows printer will print multi-page documents in the 'wrong' order...so you end up with a stack of papers with the last page on top. One possible reason is a configuration problem in the Printer Settings:

1. Open the Printer Settings dialog for the printer:
   • Click Start>Printers and Faxes, or Start>Control Panel>Printers and Faxes
   • Right-click the printer's icon, then click 'Properties' from the bottom of the context menu
2. Open the Printing Preferences dialog window:

While trying to test a web site on a local (development) machine, I ran into this error from ASP.NET:

unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred

Simple dialog, "OK" button is the only option.

I found this blog post, where Lorin Thwaits suggests that some other program is already controlling port 80, and then gives an easy way to find the culprit and kill it.