The Maximum Log Size specified is not valid when changing Windows Event Viewer log size

When changing Application Windows Event Log maximum size and you are seeing the message below then it is possible that it is set by group policy (local or Active Directory).

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Event Viewer
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The Maximum Log Size specified is not valid. It is too large or too small. The Maximum Log Size will be set to the following:  1028 KB
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OK  
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This behavior can be modified allow changes via Windows Event View application. To do so open Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). Then navigate to Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Event Log Service | Application (for example) then change Maximum Log Size (KB) to Not configured.

Note that you need to be an administrator to make the changes.

Running Python one liner

Running on liner Python is sometimes just fells awesome, practice with caution though. Below spits out uuid4 using Python one liner.

c:\> ipy -c "import uuid; print(uuid.uuid4())"

Reference(s):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2043453/executing-python-multi-line-statements-in-the-one-line-command-line

Enable ClearType using Python

When I remote desktop to Windows machines most of the time the fonts just looks ugly. This can be improved by enabling ClearType and I do this every time I connect to a box which I do several times a day. Below is a Python code that enables ClearType which I shamelessly copied from StackOverflow.

Reference(s):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5676768/enable-disable-cleartype-in-windows7