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Windows XP by default keeps some important files and folders hidden. This is to protect files from accidental deletion, but if for any reason you want to see such files it only takes a few seconds to change this default…
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Deploying Sophos Clients via Sophos Control Center fail on Windows 7 machines
Sophos Control Centre can deploy Sophos antivirus software to your client computers remotely. In my experience installation on Windows XP never caused any issues and machines were ready out of the box. On Windows 7, however, installation was failing with…
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Joomla 1.5 – Remove numbers from Category List View
You may prefer not to have numbers in front of Article titles in Category list view. Joomla 1.5 doesn’t provide functionality to remove this.This can achieved via a simple core hack. Open file:components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/default_items.php Scroll down to line 69 and delete…
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Microsoft Active Directory – Exchange Extension has encountered a problem and needs to close
Background Windows Server 2003 / 2008 domainWindows Server Active Directory Forest Schema upgraded to Server 2008Member or DC Windows 2003 Servers with Exchange 2003 Management Tools installed Problem Active Directory Users and Computers MMC crashes on Windows Server 2003 machines…
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Users can’t logon on Terminal Server using mandatory profiles “The filename or extension is too long”
Background Windows Server 2003 / 2008 domain Windows Terminal Server 2003 Terminal Server set to use a mandatory profiles Problem Occasionally users are not able to logon using on the Terminal Server using their Remote Desktop Clients.Thy get error message…
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Run cmd.exe process as System Account in Windows 7
Download PsExec (this is part of Sysinternals PsTools) Start command prompt (cmd) as Administrator Navigate to location of downloaded and extracted PsExec.exe Run: PsExec.exe -i -s cmd.exe-i – Run the program interactively-s – Run in the System accountcmd.exe – Application to start…
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Unable to kill Outlook.exe process in Windows 7
Recently upgraded some machines from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 7 SP1 (fresh install). Couple of users started experiencing serious issues with their Outlook 2010. Soon after starting Outlook would hang and then crash. Outlook.exe process, however, would stay in…
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Force Applications to be re-installed by Group Policy
Group Policy Manager allows to re-deploy applications globally, but doesn’t provide ability to do it for individual machines. This may be required if an application got corrupted, or somebody removed it using Add/Remove Programs on a client PC. That’s right,…
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Internet search from Windows 7 Start Menu
Windows 7 Start Menu Search feature helps you to find data on your computer, but it’s easy enough to make search the web as well. All is needed a little registry change: Open registry editor – just type regedit in…
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Disable Junk Mail in Outlook 2010
By default Outlook will try to filter the most obvious junk e-mail and move it to the Junk-E-mail folder. Unfortunately Outlook SPAM filter is not the most sophisticated and quite often legitimate messages get marked as Junk mail. You can…
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Google Earth Street View missing in version 5.2
This morning (16.01.2012) a user complained to me that he can’t find Street View in Google Earth anymore. Street View layer simply disappeared. The user was on version 5.2.The reason I left some users users on old 5.2 version, was…
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Auto Login in Poderosa Terminal Emulator
Poderosa is an open source terminal emulator. It is a popular alternative to puTTY because of additional features, such as tabbed style interface. Another useful feature is auto-login. It is disabled by default and for a good reason – password…