This is cool article regarding the workings of underwater Internet cables.
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Sometimes you select the wrong network location on a Windows PC (Public,Private,Domain). Sometimes it switches by itself. Every version of Windows (XP,7,8,10, Server 2008R2,2012, etc) have different locations or ways of switching the network location. Usually for me I have a PC or Server that is sharing a folder or something. If it gets changed to Public then the share will not work. Its frustrating to find out where to change it. Some are easy with a click of a location. Others are more difficult. The easiest way to change it no matter what version of OS you are using is modifying the registry. Here is the info: You can do it thru the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles\ You might need to reboot afterwards to have the setting change. Have 3 clients that have similar issues just recently. Not sure if its related to latest Windows updates. 3 computers where Internet Explorer would not open. Firefox or Chrome worked fine. All 3 computers are Windows 7 64-Bit running IE 11 with free AVG installed. The issue is related to AVG. Uninstalled AVG and IE worked fine. Installed an alternate free AV and worked fine. Another reason why I am starting to hate AVG. Have a client that had a fake Ransomware on their PC. Luckily it as a fake one that did not actually encrypt his files it just added extension .crypted on the end of all .doc,.xls,.pdf etc. Looking for a utility that would strip the .crypted extension and came across this website. It has a batch file that will do what I wanted. It does sub folders so its great because the PC has a lot of files all over the hard drive.
Here is a solution to a frustrating problem. Can print to Brother MFC printer but can’t scan. Found a solution might fix issue: After trying the solutions given here and at other sites I came to this solution that worked fine for me: clearing in c:\users\”your own name”\appdata\local\temp the following files:
twain.log, twain001.mtx, twunk001.mtx and twunk002.mtx.
After this all worked again as expected, in Irfanview all my (possible) Twain-devices were given again to select from where before the selection box was empty. Photocopier worked again and of course my Brother (DCP-J752DW) was reacting again with the cc4-control center!
Mind you: I have tried all other solutions inclusive de-installing and re-installing, clearing registry with CCleaner and so on with no succes so in my opinion:
The only thing you need to do is to clear the abovementioned files or anyothers with twain and twunk in the name and or with the mtx extension. The reason for the problem? Probably somehow a security issue but how, why, when I don’t know!
Another solution follow these instructions. There is a Twain_reset app One other thing is I found if I had to change Brother printers or other MFC devices that scan that the best thing to do is uninstall all other none used MFC printer drivers (especially other Brother printers). Then go into the C:\Windows\Twain_32 folder and remove any sub folders. Then reinstall the Brother MFC Software. If the Control Center won’t load (loads with blank white screen)look at other solution A few MS updates have cause BusinessVision to have issues. The first issue is you can’t export to PDF. The cause of of this is Microsoft Update KB3102429. You have to uninstall it. Steps to Uninstall Microsoft KB3102429 Go to the Windows Control Panel. The second problem is the MAPI does not show as an option to export on a Windows 7 PC. There was an update to MAPI that could cause this. The MAPI is used to email out. You have to use Outlook 2010 or less.Outlook 2013-2016 does not work for me. To resolve the problem, first you need to install SP1 for Windows 7, then you need to find the new driver to make MAPI compliant with the older software apps like BV. Try and find a Crystal driver called U2DMAPI.DLL and install (copy) it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.5\Bin. Here is my copy of U2DMAPI.DLL that you can try. Have a few clients that run Deep Freeze. Issue is sometimes the PC will loop reboot during a windows update if the PC is in frozen state. Found this article that basically helped me rather than a new image. Basically you need to boot from a media (CD etc) not the Windows drive. I used a Windows XP Mini CD. Great for stuff like this. You then backup the files in question and then copy the Deep Freeze files into Windows\System32\drivers folder so that on next boot it will be thawed so it will finishing installing the Windows updates. What I did after this was then once system is running fine I recopied the backup files back to Windows\System32\drivers and everything was working in the frozen state. The location to download the Deep Freeze files are here. Here is a text file of the instructions Client with Brother printer that uses the Control Center 3 CC3 to scan to PC. Just recently would not start. Would give white screen. Turns out that the latest Flash update causes the problem. To fix this you just need to edit the registry so it uses the classic style and not the modern style that uses flash. (Another reason flash is on its way out!). Here is what you do: Using Regedit, change the key May need to logout/login again after this. Reboot should not be necessary.
Found this on the following article Client came in that had just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. After the upgrade it logged in but with a temporary profile. Checked the Users folder I saw TEMP as the current profile. The main users profile is User. Looking online I saw someone had similar issue and he just had to add the user profile to the Users group. Since this was a Home version that would not work for me. What I did to correct this is I created a new local user with Administrator privileges. Logged into this new user. Went into Registry and looked at the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
In here I saw that the user profile in question had a .bak on the profile. It was the only one there like that. I then backed up the good data users profile just in case. I then renamed the the profile in registry to remove the .bak and then I restarted. I then logged in as the user in question and it finished the upgrading part of Windows 10. Everything is back to normal. Here is an article similar with my fix for Windows 8 This article goes into more detail and some of the other settings like refcount and state need to be set to 0. If you can’t login to change the registry you might have to login safe mode.
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