A client asked me to look at a performance / stability issue on a windows xp machine. On opening control panel and add remove programs I noted the length of time that it took to display the list of installed apps and also that when scrolling down the list – a very large blank entry […]
The latest incarnation of VMware’s virtualisation tool for PC operating systems – VMware workstation got a an update which chages quite a few of the features and tools now expectected from this kind of virtualisation utility. Previously I used this product daily until I moved fully into the ESX(i) environment but have been very infrequently […]
What a rubbish error message !! This was raised when trying to create a signature in Outlook 2003 and pressing the advanced edit button. The suggestion was that there was an easy fix 1. Open Control Panel and choose Internet Options 2. Here select the Programs tab 3. Change your default HTML editor to another […]
A new small client with an SBS 2011 server and a couple of pcs came up with an interesting problem. A mixture of office version and outlook versions proved a problem for Exchange 2011 – with 2003/2010 outlook clients working well but the outlook xp / 2002 would mysteriously show no body of an email […]
Microsoft have released a beta of version 2 of Webmatrix the free web development tool with prepackaged solutions and components Their blurb describes it as WebMatrix is the easiest way to build, test and deploy Web sites. WebMatrix installs in minutes and elegantly integrates a Web server, database and programming frameworks into a single […]
A user mentioned a strange path appearing alongside an attachment that they were added to a a mail message in Gmail. I had been looking at performance issues on the same clients internet service and when I saw this I wondered whether the two things might be related. It turns out that the are distantly […]
For a windows 7 user – that I recently installed Acrobat Reader 10.1 – reporting to me that email attachments that were PDF files were not opening in Acrobat Reader rather in Media Center – but showing as empty here is a solution. The steps top change the pdf association under windows 7 were […]
Problem : When trying to install Adobe Reader or Flash you get a partial install then it fails with the following error message. “Metafile download failed error” This may occur with both Windows XP 32bit and some with Windows 7 64-bit. The solution in my case was not to use the default link from the adobe site […]
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