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Out Of Office for Outlook and POP3

The Out Of Office option in Outlook only works when you have an exchange server and the server does all the external Email. It will work if you are using SBS with the POP3 connector on the server but it will not work if you are using POP3 in Outlook. There is an […]

Excel 2003 Files Slow To Open after Windows Update

One of my clients has this issue. Windows XP PC access a Windows 2003 SBS server. After a Windows update in June the time to open an Excel file on the server takes 30 sec to 2 min. Other PC’s that have not updated work fine. After searching online it looks like MS […]

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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Windows 7 SP1 Review

Well SP1 is out and for most Windows 7 users it will not really do a lot for you. Most of the updates is the normal updates since 7 has been out. One of the fixes that it does actually did worked for me is the HDMI sound issue. My PC attached to […]

Windows 7 Chkdsk, The Memory Hog

What program built into Windows 7 will eat almost all your RAM no matter how much you have. Chkdsk. Running it from a command prompt or even the GUI it will eat the RAM (at least from the command prompt you can kill it easily. The GUI you have to log off or […]

Convert IDE to AHCI on SATA Drives

Here is a great article by TechRepublic in changing your Sata configuration from IDE compatible mode to AHCI (As long as your BIOS has this option).

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 […]

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 […]