Category: Clients

  • Calendar sharing is not available with the following entries because of permission settings on your network

    It is very easy and intuitive for users to share their calendars in Exchange 2007 / Outlook 2010 environment.All they need to do is open a Calendar, click Share Calendar and send invitation to required users.

  • Excel 2010 does not re-calculate formulas automatically

    Normally Excel will automatically recalculate formula when data in cells it is referring to changes . Users expect this behaviour and get confused if this doesn’t happen. On some complex spreadsheets automatic recalculation may be disabled to improve performance. When automatic recalculation is disabled, formulas will not be recalculated if data in referenced cells changes.

  • Error after deleting user profile manually on Windows 7 – “The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded”

    If you wanted to delete a roaming user profile from a local computer on Windows XP machine you could simply open Documents and Settings and delete profile folder manually. User would get a new profile from a server next time he logs on. If you try this approach on Windows 7 or Windows Vista machine,…

  • Re-initialize offline files cache in Windows XP and Windows 7

    Offline cache files are located in a hidden %SystemRoot%\CSC folder. You should not touch these files manually though.

  • NovaPDF 7.1 Server Print Driver causes Windows 7 machines to crash or hang

    Background Windows Active Directory Domain with Server 2003R2 and 2008R2 domain controllers Windows XP Pro and Windows 7 Pro workstations Issue Some Windows 7 workstations are very unstable. Various applications frequently hangs. Often is not possible to kill not responding process in a task manager. Trying to reboot, machines hang while logging off, leaving user…

  • How Long Since Last Windows Reboot

    Windows XP Open Command Prompt and run:systeminfoThis will return quite a bit of information. Scroll up and find line: System Up Time Alternately you can runsysteminfo | find “System Up Time”This will only return the system up time.

  • Windows 7 in VmWare ESXi 4.0 hangs on boot

    If you still use VMware ESXi 4.0 you may find that Windows 7 often hangs on boot displaying “Starting Windows” logo. This seems to be caused by Windows 7 startup animation. To fix this start Windows 7 in safe mode, open elevated command prompt and run:bcdedit /set bootux disabledThis will disable boot animation and allow…

  • Google Earth Panoramio Pictures Very Slow to Load

    Problem: Panoramio pictures in Google Earth take very long time to open or don’t open at all. During this time Google Earth application is not responsive.

  • Can’t remove printer drivers in Windows 7 – The Specified Printer Driver is Currently in Use

    Recently had to delete some network printers drivers on couple of Windows 7 machines.As usual went to Print Server > [computer] > Drivers > [driver] > Remove Driver PackageAfter confirming removal by clicking Delete was presented with an error message:Failed to remove driver [driver name]. The specified printer driver is currently in use.In Windows XP…

  • Install any version of Windows 7 using any version of Windows 7 DVD

    All Windows 7 DVDs contain all versions of Windows 7 (Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional to Ultimate edition), however they are normally restricted to install only single version.This done by a file ei.cfg located in /sources folder inside installation DVD. If you open this file in a text editor you will find text similar…

  • Firefox 8 crashes on every startup (after upgrade from v7)

    09.11.2011 This morning Firefox on one my Windows XP SP3 machines decided to upgrade itself to the latest 8.0 version. All well and good, but after the upgrade Firefox worked for couple of minutes and then crashed. Every subsequent attempt to open Firefox resulted in immediate crash. First tried couple of obvious things: Start Firefox…

  • Disable “Scanning for Viruses” in Firefox download manager

    After you download a file, Firefox Download Manager for couple of seconds displays “Scanning for Viruses” and during this time you can’t do anything with the file from within download manager.This behaviours seems strange and unnecessary – Firefox doesntt have any buit-in antivirus, so it’s not going to find anything if there is no antivirus…