If you are a regular Skype user at both work and home then you may be interested in this little tip to have 2 instances of Skype running. I use this at work so I can have my personal Skype account and my work Skype account online at the same time.
It is very easy [...]
Microsoft have been improving their knowledgebase by adding “Fix it” links. These links are downloadable automated fixes that apply the suggested solution in the knowledgebase article. This is a great idea and is (to be honest) a long overdue function simply because a lot of articles contain complex instructions that can be difficult to [...]
Now that Windows 7 is in public beta many people are downloading it and reporting great things about it. There are many improvements over Windows Vista including stability, performance and program compatibility.
As well as improvements there are some very nice features that make life in Windows 7 very pleasant. Tim Sneath (director of the [...]
Symptoms
You may get alerted by the Windows Security Center that your firewall may be disabled. When you try to turn it on you may receive the error message
Could not start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service on Local Computer. Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.
Cause
The error [...]
If you are using Windows Vista SP1 and have recently installed Windows Desktop Search 4.0 (KB940157) you may find that the indexing service fails to start and you see 0×80071a91 in Event Viewer related to “Windows Search Service”.
Start by opening an elevated command prompt- click start
- type cmd in the start menu search bar
- [...]
You are unable to set the default home page in Internet Explorer 7.0. When you launch Internet Explorer, it opens http://runonce.msn.com/runonce3.aspx even after you have changed it to your desired home page.
Cause
There are missing values in the registry.
Solution
Warning - Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or [...]
Symptom 1 - In Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, when you try to paste a Lotus Notes link into the body of a new e-mail message, the Lotus Notes link is not clickable. This is true if you use the "Copy as Doc Link" command in Lotus Notes to copy the link.
Symptom 2 - [...]
When you copy large files between two Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008-based computers, the copy speed may be very slow. This problem occurs even when you are working in a high bandwidth WAN network environment.
Note When you copy files between two Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008-based computers, the Server Message Block (SMB) [...]
After you install security update 961260 (MS09-002) on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, you may experience a problem when you visit some Web pages that are in different Internet Explorer security zones. When the problem occurs, you receive a message that resembles the following:
Navigation to the webpage was [...]
If you are a regular Skype user at both work and home then you may be interested in this little tip to have 2 instances of Skype running. I use this at work so I can have my personal Skype account and my work Skype account online at the same time.
It is very easy [...]
