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)…