If auto-discovery in your Office 365 account is configured properly, setting Microsoft Outlook is very simple – only information you need to is email address and password. However, if auto-discovery is not yet configured or is not working properly, here is how to configure Outlook 2010 manually

An interesting looking infection I stumbled upon recently. As soon as Windows boots, the above message would be displayed full screen, without any way to close it. Task manager and other Windows features were disabled. Owner of this laptop, obviously not very IT literate, was pretty concerned, not sure whether the message was genuine or…

Issue Sony VAIO laptop keeps displaying spinning circle mouse pointer. This happens every 10-15 seconds and lasts 5 seconds or so. Cause This doesn’t seem to affect computer performance too much, but it could be because was a a hi-spec Core i7 + SSD laptop. Task Manager didn’t provide many clues – none of the…

This morning all computers running Sophos Antivirus reported various files as infected with SHH/Updater-B virus. This was a clear false positive and Sophos promptly issued a fix in detection updates released 19 Sep 21:32. Unfortunately most of the affected systems were not able to automatically download definition updates anymore… False-positive seem to have affected various…

HTPC Zotac H55-ITX-C WiFi Core i3 640 (3.06GHz) CPU 4GB Corsair RAM (DDR3 1333Mhz) Windows 7 64 bit OS BlackGold BGT3600 TV tuner Issue HTPC doesn’t come back from Sleep mode. Computer turns on, but only black screen is displayed. HTPC is also not accessible via network, i.e. not responding to PING. Hibernating is not…

Google Chrome browser updates automatically and these updates pretty non intrusive. There may be situations though, when you want auto-update feature to be disabled completely. There is no nice and easy option to disable them, but it can be achieved via Local Computer Policy manager. Download and extract GoogleUpdate.adm Launch gpedit.msc (Local Group Policy Editor)…

Oracle VM VirtualBox can open VMware native virtual machine hard drive files in .vmdk format. This doesn’t work other way around though – WMware can’t open VirtualBox .vdi files. If you have Oracle VirtualBox installed you can easily convert .vdi to .vmdk using command line VBoxManage.exe tool: Go to C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox and open VBoxManage.exe in…

Issue Windows update keeps failing to install 3 Windows Updates:KB2729094KB2732487KB2647753 After trying to install them, Windows request a restart, after which it says that all 3 updates failed to install and lists them again as available recommended updates.

Outlook 2010 allows to preview some file types within Outlook. By default following messages is displayed: If you remove check box next to “Always warn before previewing this type of file” next time this type of files will be previewed automatically. To restore default behaviour (show warning message again) you need to make a small…

If you have duplex (printing on both sides) enabled on Kyocera copier, even when you print a single page, it will be turned around before printing, which doubles the printing time. To avoid this, you need to enable print driver option called Smart Duplex: Open Devices and Printers Right click on your Kyocera Printer open…

Sometimes you need to find what empty PCI or other slots are available on your PC without opening computer case. For example when you have only remote access to the PC, or simply don’t fancy crawling under a desk and disconnecting bunch or cables. Problem is that not all system information utilities reliably display such…

Flowing script will create a folder with name as the current date in format YYYY.MM.DD format e.g. 2012.05.14 for /f “skip=1” %%i in (‘wmic os get localdatetime’) do if not defined fulldate set fulldate=%%iset year=%fulldate:~0,4%set month=%fulldate:~4,2%set day=%fulldate:~6,2%set foldername=%year%.%month%.%day%md %foldername% Windows XP and higher