Issue Text in comments balloon is extremely small and unreadable. Reason Ballon Text style is configured with very small font size. Solution Modify Ballon Text style and increase the font size: Open the affected document in MS Word 2010 In Home ribbon click on a little arrow below Change Styles icon to open Styles dialog.…

Recently I received an email with MS Word document attached (Office 2003 .doc format). Trying to open .doc would cause MS Word to hang. Tested on couple of different machines with MS Office 2010 and MS Office 2003. First of all I noticed that document is displayed absolutely fine in MS Outlook 2010 Reading Panel…

Issue Some email recipients get strange winmail.dat attachments in messages received from senders using MS Outlook email clients.On top of that all legitimate attachments disappear and are replaced with a single unusable winmail.dat attachment. Cause This issue is cased by MS Outlook sending outgoing emails in RTF format (Rich Text Format). With RTF format all…

I’ve seen this issue on HP 5550 printer but it may be affecting other HP devices as well. Basically printer works absolutely fine if you print only one copy. However, as soon as you try to print more than one copy (even if it’s just a one page document) printing fails. It does print one…

If at any point you have had more than one Operating System on your computer, you may end up with situation where your primary Operating System and Windows bootloader are located on different physical disks. If you decide to upgrade disk where the bootloader is located, Windows will refuse to boot with error “no boot…

In Windows 7 you can easily change icon for any folder or shortcut via Properties. There a number of places in Windows 7 where you can locate buit-in icons. Some of them  are: C:\Windows\system32\shell32.dll (General) C:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll (General) C:\Windows\System32\DDORes.dll (Devices) C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe (Internet Explorer)

C0000218 {Registry File Failure} Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) occurs if Windows is unable to read one of the registry database file. This can occur because of software or hardware issues, for example: power cut while Windows was writing to registry file (software), or a new bad sector on the system hard drive (hardware). Full…

Skype by default saves all your historical chat (IM) messages on a local computer. This can be disabled in Tools > Settings > IM & SMS > IM Settings If you are planning to re-install Windows or migrate to another PC you may want to keep your historical chat messages. This can be done by…

If you install Exchange 2007 Management Tools on Windows 7 client and try to access Client Access Server (CAS) via Exchange Management Console (EMC) you may get various IIS related errors such as this: An error occurred while trying to access IIS (Internet Information Service) metabase. Make sure the Internet Information Service Manager component is…

Recently came across a new Microsoft utility called Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT). This utility works in  a similar way as Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer, but is looking for issues in local Outlook configurations.