To find product / serial keys for Windows or MS Office I normally use NirSoft ProduKey. You can download v1.70 from here: 32bit / 64bit. Or look for the latest version on developers’ website. Recently I also found a simple .vbs script that decodes Windows serial number from registry. I always try to attribute developers, but in this…

I recently had to import couple of large .pst email archives into MS Exchange 2010 mailbox. First of all I tried using Exchange Management Shell (EMS) cmdlet: New-MailboxImportRequest -FilePath “\\server\share\FileName.pst” -Mailbox <user.name> -TargetRootFolder “Import” One .pst file was successfully imported, but second failed. There were not many clues in EMS output. It simply said that…

To save individual emails from Microsoft Outlook to .msg format you can simply select required emails and drag them to any folder or to your desktop. The only issue I have with this approach is that each .msg file name is made up of only of email subject and sometimes a number (to avoid conflicts…

If you get the error bellow while trying to run an application on a 64bit Windows computer in most cases it means that your application is 16bit. The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit)…

Issue Trying to send bunch of jpg image files via Skype. Transfer fails to start and following error message is displayed: File transfer limitYou cannot send any more files until your existing file transfers have finished.

Issue Trying to run a Java application in Google Chrome fails. Message “Plug-in blocked” appears in the address bar and options to temporary or permanently allow Java on a particular website are greyed out.

Issue Cannot upgrade Altusen Aten KH1508Ai IP KVM switch firmware via web interface GUI. After choosing the .fw firmware file and clicking the Upgrade button, following error is displayed: “Firmware file format error“.

Issue After upgrading Android Studio from 0.8.14 to 1.0 RC4, project Gradle sync fails with error: Gradle DSL method not found: ‘runProguard()’Error(16,0)Possible causes:• The project ‘<project name>’ may be using a version of Gradle that does not contain the method.• The build file may be missing a Gradle plugin.

This is how I managed to to install USB debugging drivers for Tesco Hudl 2 and use it with Android Studio for development. Enable USB debugging on the Hudl2 and connect to a PC From Android notification drawer change USB connection type from Media Device (MTP) to Camera (PTP) Open Device Manger on the PC and choose…

Issue Windows 8.1 desktop PC wakes up from sleep mode every night around 3am. Resolution To find out what woke up computer last time you can run powercfg -lastwake Owner: [SERVICE] \Device\Harddisk\Volume2\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventBroker)Owner Supplied Reason: Windows will execute ‘NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\TaskScheduler\Regular Maintenance’ scheduled task that requested waking the computer.

Issue A user complained that he is was not receiving emails from certain recipients. The mailbox was hosted on Office 365 account and the user had access from multiple clients, including Outlook on a Windows PC, Apple mail on a Mac, and an iPad / iPhone email app. Email tracking indicated that all missing emails were…

Issue Users cannot reliably access QuickBooks company files in the multi-user mode. The files were stored on Windows SBS2008 server (with multi-user access enabled). When trying to open files, users would often get following error: Problem with multi user hosting setupProblem: The company file is located on another computer and QuickBooks cannot contact that computer.Error code:…