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  • Sophos Control Center before installing antivirus on client computers by default finds and removes other third party antivirus software. This is a very handy feature as it allows to remove old antivirus solution and deploy Sophos without need to login…

  • After a routine SugarSync software update I was surprised to see a following warning: SugarSync Account Almost FullYou have used more than 67% of your storage capacity. Once you exceed your storage capacity, you will lose the ability to sync…

  • Issue Windows Server 2003 SP2 64bit Group Policy Management Console with Service Pack 1 Group Policy Management Console opens normally, but when trying to open Group Policy Object Editor (to edit a particular policy), following error is displayed: Windows cannot find…

  • Playlist Creating a Winamp playlist to play all files in a particular folder. Open notepad. Type full path of your folder. i.e. D:\Music Save file with extension .m3u. i.e. mymusic.m3u

  • Issue Trying to install Google Chrome extensions from Chrome Web Store. After clicking Add to install an extension standard Chrome Save As dialog is displayed, which offers downloading a file with extension .crx. Dragging downloaded file to Chrome simply offers…

  • Issue Logitech Harmony 900 remote controller configured to work as MCE Keyboard. All button presses works within Windows, however, Intelliremote does not detect any presses and Intelliremote status icon does not blink on a key press. Solution Go to Windows…

  • Issue HTPC with Melloware Intelliremote software. After pressing a power button on a remote control, computer wakes up and after a few seconds goes back into a sleep mode. Solution Resolved by using sleep.exe instead of default sleep command. Simply…

  • 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…

  • Microsoft no longer supports desktop gadgets and even recommends disabling them. In Active Directory domain gadgets can be easily disabled via group policy. Open Group Policy Management Editor Navigate to Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components…

  • 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…

  • Spacing between lines separated by Paragraph tag <p></p> is much wider in Internet Explorer (comparing to Firefox, Chrome or Safari). Resolved by adding following code to .css file: p {     margin:  0 0 1em 0;     padding:  0;}  

  • Programmatically drawing an area on a Google Map using Polygon overlay from Google Maps API v3. Area appears as expected in Firefox and Chrome bowsers, but is not visible in Internet Explorer. Issue was caused by an extra coma defining…