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This example shows how to configure Exchange Outlook Anywhere settings in Group Policy, but the same method can be used to manage pretty much any part of Outlook via Group Policy. Steps 1 to 4 need to be completed only…
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Disable “Scanning for Viruses” in Firefox download manager
After you download a file, Firefox Download Manager for couple of seconds displays “Scanning for Viruses” and during this time you can’t do anything with the file from within download manager.This behaviours seems strange and unnecessary – Firefox doesntt have…
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Ubuntu Grub – Change Default OS
If you install Ubuntu as a second Operating System alongside Windows, every time computer boots you will be presented with a Grub boot menu where you can make a choose which OS to boot. If you don’t make any choice…
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Windows 2003 Terminal Server – Prevent roaming profile changes from propagating to the server for certain users
Scenario: There a two types of terminal server users and they need to have profiles setup in 2 different ways: First group – use single shared profile located on the network \\Server\ShareName\TMS-Profile. Any changes user makes to the profile are…
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Windows cannot log you on because your profile cannot be loaded – Indexing Service (cidaemon.exe) locks files in roaming profiles.
Users started complaining about occasionally having problems logging-on on Windows 2003 Terminal Server via Remote Desktop client. A quick check in Event Viewer Application logs revealed following errors: Source: UserenvEven ID: 1509Type: ErrorDescription:Windows cannot copy file \\server2\tms\profile_path\user\Favorites\File.url. Possible causes of…
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Crystal WDM Audio Codec driver fails to load after reboot – This device cannot start (Code 10)
Received an old DELL Latitude C400 Windows XP laptop with not working sound. Quick look into device manager revealed the first problem problem: Crystal WDM Audio Codecs device was listed with exclamation mark and Device Status in Properties was “This…
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Batch resize images in Gimp
Gimp doesn’t have built in batch resizing functionality, but it’s pretty simple to add it via a plug-in called DBP (David’s Batch Processor). Download Windows version of DPB from here.(For Linux version check DPB home page). Extract dbp.exe file and…
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Integrate / slipstream Office 2010 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
If you have to install Office 2010 on number of machines, you may want to slipstream SP1 so you don’ have to install it on every machine manually (or rely on Windows Updates). Slipstreaming process for Office 2010 is really…
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iOS 5 best new features
Apple finally released long awaited iOS 5.0 upgrade. This upgrade available for following devices: iPhone 4S iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS iPad 2 iPad iPod touch (4th generation) iPod touch (3rd generation) Apple boasts that there are over 200 new features…
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Windows Picture and Fax Viewer freezes opening a picture
A user came to me complaining that it takes 10-20 second for Windows Picture and Fax Viewer to display a picture from a desktop on his Windows XP machine. During this time Picture Viewer freezes; at the same time some…
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Windows 8 Developer Preview – First look
On 13 September 2011 Microsoft released Windows 8 Developer Preview version. You can install it and have a play yourself. Read this article to find out how.Be aware that this release is very early pre-beta version which is not really…
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Enabling default .htaccess (for SEF) breaks Joomla website
After enabling .htaccess (by renaming htaccess.txt to .htaccess) on one of my test websites I found that website is broken and Apache throws following error: The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please…