Issue Every time printing on Develop ineo+ 364e following warning message pops up: Following functions are ON and cannot be used in the current environment or applicationExcel Job ControlRemove White BackgroundAre you sure you want to change the setting to “Off” and continue printing?  

Issue Cannot add Exchange 2007 email account to MS Outlook 2010 email client. The action fails with error: The action cannot be completed. The name cannot be matched to a name in the address list. Outlook client and Exchange server are on the same local network.

Firefox by default checks spelling in multiple line text-area fields. But it does not do that in single line text-boxes. To enable automatic spell-check in text-boxes follow these simple steps: In Firefox address bar type about:config, and click on “I’ll be careful, I promise“. Scroll down to the field “layout.spellcheckDefault“, double click and change the value…

Acer W510 tablet comes with Windows 8 Home and Premium pre-installed. You can upgrade this version to Windows 8.1 for free via Windows App Store. However, if you want to install clean version of Windows 8.1, there are couple of tricks you need to know.  

Issue Adobe Flash 11 .msi deployment via group policy fails. Windows Application logs record following error: Source: MsiInstalerEvent ID: 11722Level: ErrorDescription:Product: Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX — Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.…

Issue Windows 7 system logs started recording event ID 55 (NTFS) – The system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolume2.

It’s a bit unusual to come across software released in 1996, but there you go – I was given a decent Windows 7 PC with working version of Microsoft Office 97 Professional. And Office 97 decided not to give up that easily. Trying to remove via normal control panel method failed with following error: Setup…

This is quite common scenario –  a user forgets the password for his email account, but still have some application or a device collecting mail from the account is question. Here are few options to recover the password in such case:

Acer Iconia W510, as many other Windows 8 devices, comes with UEFI Secure Boot enabled in BIOS, which prevents booting from unauthorized devices.Acer didn’t make disabling Secure Boot in W510 very straight forward.

Windows PCs have many .dll resource files that contain number of icons. Here are some of them.  C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll

All commands in blue need to be run in elevated command prompt.  Check that your Wi-Fi hardware and drivers support wi-fi hotspot:netsh wlan show driversLook for line: “Hosted Network Support: Yes“

Trying to play Blu-ray disk via VLC media player produces following error: Blu-ray error:This Blu-ray Disc needs a library for AACS decoding, and your system does not have it.Your input can’t be opened:VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘bluray:///F:/’. Check the log for details. To resolve head to vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name and download two files: KEYDB.cfg and libaacs.dll.