I realize that many have already migrated to another program for email (instead of Netscape 7.2). However, I was asked to solve the problem of getting Netscape 7.2 email to open links in IE 7 that required a non-obvious answer (and some googling). I am documenting it here, incase someone else wants to do the…
How to remove “Nero Scout” from “My Computer” [Link] This command worked for me: regsvr32 /u “%commonprogramfiles%\Ahead\Lib\MediaLibraryNSE.dll” How to remove “My Sharing Folders” from “My Computer” [Link] This command worked for me: regsvr32 /u “C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\fsshext.8.5.1302.1018.dll”
If you have been annoyed by this following dialog when you open PDF files in Adobe Acrobat v8, here are the two different ways is the way you can disable it. Rename the Accessibility.api and ReadOutLoud.api to Accessibility.old and ReadOutLoud.old (or you can move them to a different folder). These files are found in C:\Program…
I have been experiencing this problem more and more, as the proliferation of non-routable ip networks increases. Basically, I am at an airport, hotel, customer site, or other location and they happen to be using the same ip address range as we do at the corporate offices. For example: Corporate uses 10.1.x.x network range (mail…
I have been researching and trying to resolve this error for the past couple of weeks (off and on). It only happens on Windows 2000 machines, and seems to have started sometime in Aug-2007. Other items, it only happens if the machine is left on over night, and rebooting will fix the problem. The “Details:…
I recently had to help someone restore the “Show Desktop” icon, after theyaccidentally deleted it from their Quick Launch bar in Windows XP. I foundthis handy little utility, and wanted to pass it along to those that mayneed it. http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_showdesktop.htm
If you are using Outlook 2003, or possibly Outlook 2007, and are getting a message about your Personal Folder (.pst file) being full, you can fix it using the details below: If you have upgraded from a version Office before 2003, the PST files that are being created are in a Office97-2002 format, and those…
This weekend, I was asked to look at a system that wouldn’t allow the owner to use a USB External Harddrive (Maxtor Personal Storage 3200, 160GB). It was correctly seen by the machine and available in device manager, and the disk management utilities. However, it wasn’t assigned a drive letter by default, and attempts to…
If you install Microsoft Virtual Server on a “server” machine and after starting a virtual host on the machine you lose all network connectivity to the “host” machine you should read the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888750 It indicates that VS2005R2 has an issue with TCP segmentation offloading or other “offloading” to the NIC … so you have…