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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 […]

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 […]

Error When Printing Other Users Calendar In Outlook

Client got this error:

The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook.

Found this on Microsoft website.

Method 1: Disable the TaskPad option

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On the File menu, click Print. Click Page Setup. On the Format tab, click to clear the TaskPad check box. Click OK to close […]

Slow Opening and Saving Office 2007 Files

This had been driving me nuts. My situation is I run Windows 7 Pro. Office 2007. Connected to a SBS 2008 Server. When I open an Excel document from the server the first time it would take minutes and sometimes would time out. After this it was fine usually for the rest of […]

About 1 Day

I just love the way Microsoft estimates when copying files on how long it will take. Usually at the very beginning its extreamly high and then as it gets closer to the end its closer to the actual time. Here is an example. I was backing up my 16 GIG USB drive that […]

Upgrading XP To Windows 7 At Work

Well I decided to change my 3 year Windows XP installation to Windows 7. My XP was getting very SLOWWWWW!!! The usual bit rot!! I switched from Office 2003 to 2007. Installed the new MS Search. Installing and uninstalling applications. It would take like minutes for it too boot and have Outlook to […]

Upgrade To Windows 7

Well I decided to upgrade my Vista Ultimate 64-bit to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. ( I only went with Ultimate because my MAPS included 1 license. If I was going to purchase a license I would go with Windows 7 Pro).Everyone says you really should do a fresh install rather than upgrade. I […]