In OS X

Click Skype in the menu bar and then preferences.

Click the Advanced Tab

Un-tick ‘Enable Mood Message Chat’

When trying to install Windows XP Service Pack 3 you get an ‘Access Denied’ error.

1. Download and install the Subinacl.exe file from the Microsoft Website.

2. Open Notepad and paste following code:

cd /d “%ProgramFiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools”
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose

3. Save the file with name “SP3.bat“.

4. Now right-click on the file and select “Run as administrator“. It might take some time to complete.

5. After completion, restart your system and now you should be able to install SP3.

1. Drag your mouse over the headers of the 2 columns around the hidden column.
2. Right click on the selected columns.
3. Choose Unhide from the menu.
4. The hidden columns will then be visable.

1. Open an explorer window and go to tools > folder options > view, and uncheck hide protected files.

2. Click Ok.

3. Then do a search in your sys drive [usually c: ] for desktop.htt.
It will be in Docs and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer.

4. Delete the .htt file.

5. Right click on your desktop and click refresh.

Problem: HP LaserJet P2015 keeps stalling, jamming and being unreliable.

Fix: Update the firmware from -

http://www.hp.com/pond/firmware/hidden/P2015FWUpg20080312.html

To make text italic in CSS use the following:

font-style:italic;

If you want your account to automatically login on Windows 7 do the following:

1. Press the Windows key + r on your keyboard to open the “Run” window.
2. Enter control userpasswords2 press return.
3. The User Accounts window will open.
4. Uncheck the box “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer”
5. Click “ok”
6. Enter your current password twice – click ok.
7. Reboot to test that auto login works..

To find your computers IP address

1. Click start/windows icon

2. Click run or type the following into search: cmd

3. In the command prompt that appears type in: ipconfig

4. Your IP address will four blocks of numbers after where it says IP ADDRESS . . . . . .

After restoring your Mac from timemachine Mail keeps asking you to enter your password and will not connect to your mail.

In the terminal when you run the command ‘codesign -vvv /Applications/Mail.app’ you get the result

‘/Applications/Mail.app: code or signature modified’

Solution

1. Download and install pacifist.

2. Put in your OS X Snow Leopard DVD and open Pacifist.

3. Open ‘Contents of OSInstall.mpkg’ > ‘Contents of EssentialSystemSoftware’ > ‘Contents of Mail.pkg’

4. Click Install.

5. Follow through Pacifist warnings.

6. Open Mail and your email should be working.

If you run ‘codesign -vvv /Applications/Mail.app’

You should get:

/Applications/Mail.app: valid on disk
/Applications/Mail.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement

When trying to remote desktop into a Windows XP computer you get the following message:

‘Your interactive logon has been disabled’

1. Check that the user is a member of the remote users group on the computer. (You may have to login via the administrator account to do this).

2. On your server open the users profile in active directory users and computers. Under the ‘Terminal Services Profile’ tab untick the box that says ‘Deny this user permission to log on to any Terminal Server’