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Fix File Association

Have some clients that gets infected with a virus and after cleaning it the .exe file association’s are corrupt. Here are 3 links to download .reg files to fix file associations.

Fix XP File Association

Fix Vista File Association

Fix Windows 7 File Association

Here is an article on regarding the .EXE file association

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MS Outlook Command-line Switches

Outlook 2007 comes with a tone of command-line switches for Outlook to customize things to fix issues. A lot will also work with 2003 version.

Here is a link from Microsoft that lists all the switches.

One of the switches I have to use the most it to reset the view […]

BESX Application Server Service Terminated

Setup a Blackberry Enterprise Server Express on a SBS 2003 client. Install went fine and could connect to the Blackberry Administrator Console fine. Did a restart of the server and then could not connect to the Blackberry Administrator Console. Server log indicated the Blackberry Administrator Service kept trying to start and then fail […]

OWA saves .docx as .zip

Found this on the Internet

Have a client that has an issue on when they try and open a .docx file in OWA (Outlook Web Access). It asks to save and by default it wants to save as a .zip file. Here is the solution:

The problem: When any Office 2007 […]

Change my HD and Windows 7 Made My Laptop Fast

My Acer 5720 Laptop is a decent laptop (well a few years ago but still is not bad). Its Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz, 250 Gig Sata, 3 Gig RAM. It came with XP. When I got it, it was fast. As the year or so have gone it has gotten really slow […]

Send As Permission for Exchange 2003

Found this on the Internet.

Thanks Brian.

“Send As” allows one user to send an email as though it came from another user. The recipient will not be given any indication that the email was composed by someone other than the stated sender.

“Send As” can only be granted by a system administrator. “Send on […]

Simply Or Sage 50 Accounting User Locked Out

A client using Simply 2010 in multi user mode has someone logged in under multi mode and the hydro goes out (on the workstation only). The user tries to log back in after restart and says it won’t allow into Simply because that user is already logged in.

I tried just […]

Network Drive Can’t Access

On a couple of networks I maintain I have been getting various PC’s that have issues accessing mapped drive letters to a Windows 2003 Server. The Internet works and the Exchange/Outlook is fine its when the access a network drive they might get an error: “insufficient resources to complete task”. If they reboot […]

Prevent Windows Restart After Updates

Here is a great article from Paul Thurrott on adding a registry entry to prevent Windows from restarting automatically when updates are done.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Polices\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers REG_DWORD 1

Windows Live Messenger Crashes On Startup

I had a client that when he tried and start Windows Live Messenger it would crash and give an error:

“Windows Live Messenger has encountered a problem and needs to close.”

I tried reinstalling but that did not cure the problem. I searched on line and found this solution:

Start the regedit and goto the […]