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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…
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Update VMware ESXi 5.0 license key
By default VMware ESXi 5.0 (VMware vSphere Hypervisor) installs in 60 days Evaluations mode. Licence key can be obtained for free from www.vmware.com. To update the license key perform following: Login to your host unsung VMware vSphare client Change to…
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Upgrade Free VMware ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 5.0
VMware ESXi 5.0 is now called VMware vSphere Hypervisor, but as before is free to download and use. Upgrading from VMware ESXi 4.0 to VMware ESXi 5.0 is pretty easy and straight forward: As always, before you proceed with an…
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Email recipients get mysterious winmail.dat attachments
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…
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HP LaserJet 5550 fails to print multiple copies
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…
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Move Windows 7 BootLoader to another disk
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…
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Location of icon files in windows 7
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…
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Fixing Blue Screen “Stop: C0000218 {Registry File Failure}” in Windows XP
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…
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Add Run command button to Start Menu in Windows 7
By default Run… command button is not present in Windows 7 Start menu. To add it back perform following : Right click on Start Button > Properties In Taskbar and Start Menu Properties click Customize Scroll down and select Run…
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Transfer Skype chat history to another computer
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…
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IIS errors accessing Exchange 2007 CAS via EMC on Windows 7
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…
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Diagnosing Outlook issues with Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool
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.