Issue User double clicks on a network drive (mapped drive) and instead of Windows Explorer with drive content, Open With dialog is displayed. If you click Browse and navigate to C:\Windows\explorer.exe network drive opens normally, but next time the same Open With dialog is displayed again.Disconnecting and re-connecting network drive doesn’t resolve the issue.

Issue Photos saved in Microsoft SkyDrive never loads. Thumbnails folder view looks like this: Trying to open individual pictures also doesn’t work. SkyDrive displays “Still retrieving high-quality photo. We’ll show it as soon as it arrives.” But photo is never loaded.

There are two versions of Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 – good old desktop version and new immersive Metro / Modern UI version.     If you want to re-create tile to a desktop version of IE, and Start Screen search doesn’t find it, navigate to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer. Right click on iexplore.exe and choose Pin to Start.

Google Chrome by default uses normal website favicon when you add it to bookmarks. If website doesn’t have favicon a default blank page icon will be displayed. This is also the case if you add a custom script as a bookmark (for example Plex It! JavaScript which adds videos to your Plex queue). There is…

Issue JavaScript doesn’t work on Internet Explorer 9. Could have been a coincidence, but issue occurred after installing Sophos endpoint protection (antivirus) on the machine. Troubleshooting Making sure Active Scripting is Enabled in Browser settings Starting IE in safe mode without add-ons Disabling Antivirus and Firewall Re-setting IE Security setting Re-setting IE Browser settings Solution…

Windows 8 Pro (as well as all previous Windows client OS versions) allows only one concurrent user session. This means you can’t connect via Remote Desktop if a local user is already logged on. Normally it’s not a problem on a client machine, but in some cases, you may want the ability to login concurrently.…

Came across a strange Windows 8 / Google Chrome bug this morning. If you pin Google Chrome executable (C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe) to the Start Screen, it vanishes as soon as the browser is closed. Actual shortcut stays in %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. If you try to pin Google Chrome again, it creates a second shortcut copy and…

In Windows 8 you can right click on an .exe file or a folder and one of the options is “Pin to Start” which does exactly what it says. This unfortunately doesn’t work for .bat scripts. There is no “Pin to Start” option if you right click on a .bat file. Nor such option exists for shortcuts to…

If you install Google Chrome on Windows 8 and make it the default browser it will replace Internet Explorer 10 in both Metro and Desktop environments. If you open a shortcut from a desktop application it will open in a desktop version of Chrome. And if you click on a shortcut in a metro app,…

If you need to find one of your TeamViewer client IDs on a local network, you can do it by remotely connecting to the client’s registry.  On 32 bit machine you need to look into key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TeamViewer\Version7\ClientID On 64 bit machine it would be:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\TeamViewer\Version7\ClientID

After a routine SugarSync software update I was surprised to see a following warning: SugarSync Account Almost FullYou have used more than 67% of your storage capacity. Once you exceed your storage capacity, you will lose the ability to sync additional files. Click here to upgrade and instantly get more storage. SugarSync icon also changed…

Issue Trying to install Google Chrome extensions from Chrome Web Store. After clicking Add to install an extension standard Chrome Save As dialog is displayed, which offers downloading a file with extension .crx. Dragging downloaded file to Chrome simply offers to re-download it again.