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Remove Essential Cleaner

Got a couple of computers infected with a fake antivirus called Essential Cleaner. One was on an XP PC, the other Windows 7 64-Bit. My normal malware removers could not detect it so I searched it on the Internet and found this article.

Basically it describe how to remove in manually. […]

NTLDR is Missing

Got this on a machine the other day. Have not seen it for sometime. I ran the usual chkdsk /r on the drive and that did not fix it. Backed up the drive and was going to do a Windows repair (Windows XP Home PC) but did not give me the option to […]

Repair Windows Updates After Removing Fake Anti-Virus in XP

After removing a fake Anti-virus the XP PC would not do any Window’s Updates. Found this on the web:

Open C:\Windows

Show hidden files and folders

Open C:\Windows\inf

Right click au and select install (extension hidden by default, should be only file named au)

After install complete may ask for restart, if not restart anyway

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Outlook 2010 POP Email To Go Into Exchange

MS made Outlook 2010 to act like the rest of the suite but one of the BIGGEST complaint I have is clients that use MS Exchange and have POP accounts. 2010 decided to keep everything separated! I did find this on the Internet to help those who would like all the email to […]

Fix MBR For Windows 7

When I had to fix the MBR for XP I used MS command FIXMBR.EXE. Well Vista and Windows 7 have changed to BOOTREC.EXE Here is an article from MS that describes how to use bootrec.exe

The main commands to run at the dos prompt are

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

bootrec.exe /fixboot

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 […]

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 […]