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  • While using MS Windows, you can occasionally encounter situation where an application window is completely or partially off-screen and there is no obvious way to move it back to where it should be. This is especially common when dealing with…

  • Issue Searching in Google Chrome by entering a search query in the Chrome’s Omnibox (address bar) returns results from google.com instead on google.co.uk as expected. Resolution Right click on the address bar in Google Chrome and select “Search Engines“ In the “Search…

  • Issue Trying to upgrade an existing Windows 8.1 Pro installation to Windows 10 Technical Preview (build 9926) (via Windows Update). After Windows Update downloads installation files (over 2GB), the upgrade begins, but soon after it fails with error: Modern Setup…

  • Issue Users can’t login on a single workstation in Windows Server 2008R domain. Following error message is displayed: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed. There are no other issues on the network and none of…

  • I have an old trusted no-brand 4GB USB Flash drive with a hardware write protection switch that is with untrusted PCs. While 4GB is not much, it is more than sufficient for this particular purpose. However, recently I started noticing…

  • If Apple Mail didn’t automatically assign a correct folder on the IMAP server as its Sent folder, this can be easily fixed.  Simply select the correct folder in the folders pane on the left-hand side. Then from the menu select Mailbox…

  • I recently had a task to install 32bit Windows 7 or Windows 8 on a 13” MacBook Pro with Retina. 32bit Windows version was important as the only reason for this installation was to run a certain legacy 16bit application.…

  • Issue Users cannot open certain .msg files on the network. Opening such file fails with error: Cannot open file: <path\to\file.msg>. The file may not exist, you may not have permission to open it, or it may be open in another…

  • Normally Microsoft Visio opens all documents in the same instance / window. As with MS Excel, one way around this is to stop opening files by double clicking on them. Instead, you open a new blank Visio window from the…

  • There are many little utilities (such as Unlocker) that can display which application is locking a particular file and can try to unlock it. If you like more control or don’t want to install any software on the affected computer, you…

  • Windows has a useful feature that allows to automatically change your default printer depending on which network your laptop is connected to. Thre are few requirements – first of all, you must use Professional, Business, or another premium version of Windows…

  • Issue Apache on CentOS 7 can’t send emails via Sendmail. Website front-end displays following error: Could not execute: /usr/sbin/sendmail /var/log/maillog file shows following error: sendmail[2450]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(apache): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: Permission denied