Windows 8 Extended Attributes Are Inconsistant Error - Solved/Fix

If you have upgraded to Windows 8 from Windows 7 then you will be seeing this error frequently.

Pretty quickly I found every program that tried to elevate to Administrative privileges had this problem. The UAC prompt to click Yes/No appeared very briefly then was rapidly replaced with this error message.

So I restarted the PC and pressed F8 to enter safe mode. I then logged in with a local administrator account and as safe mode is free of UAC prompts could happily set User Account Control Settings to Never Notify

Warning! Using this setting is not recommended.

Restarting back into regular Windows I could now launch programs as admin. I launched a command prompt as Admin and reset UAC back to the previous setting.

Speed up the Javascript file loading in your site

There is a nice technique to reduce the amount of calls your browsers has to make to the server. This will be every image, every css and every JavaScript file included in the webpage. Each time you want to load in one of these elements you will be sending a request to the server which will return the requested object known as a HTTP request.

Reduce Page Loading Time With PHP

Each one of these uses up time on your page loading, so to reduce page load all you have to do is reduce the amount of calls being made. But what if you want to organise you JavaScript files, jquery file, general file, application file and page file. There could be upto 4 requests for some javascript for the page.

It is possible in PHP to combine these JavaScript files together and trick the browser into thinking they are just one JavaScript file, therefore reducing the amount of calls being made to the server. This is done by reading the JavaScript with PHP then changing the header to JavaScript like the example below.

Create a PHP file and use the readfile function to bring in your Javascript files then change the header to Javascript and the server will treat this page as Javascript.

readfile(jquery.js’);

readfile(general.js’);

readfile(jquery-ui.js’);

readfile(page.js’);

header(‘Content-type: text/javascript’);