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Disable Mood Messages in Skype

Pete — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:16:17 +0000

In OS X

Click Skype in the menu bar and then preferences.

Click the Advanced Tab

Un-tick ‘Enable Mood Message Chat’

Access Denied When Trying to Install Service Pack 3

Pete — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:20:25 +0000

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.

Unhide Columns in Excel 2007

Pete — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:44:28 +0000

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

Active Desktop Recovery Script Error

Pete — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:26:49 +0000

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.

HP LaserJet P2015 Stalling, Jamming and Unreliable

Pete — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:53:57 +0000

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

Fix: Update the firmware from -

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

How to Make Italic Using CSS?

Pete — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:03:51 +0000

To make text italic in CSS use the following:

font-style:italic;

Auto Login Windows 7

Pete — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:48:37 +0000

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

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

How to find your IP address in XP, Vista, Win7

Pete — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:28:29 +0000

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 . . . . . .

Mail will not remember passwords after time machine restore

Pete — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:21:41 +0000

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

‘Your interactive logon has been disabled’

Pete — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:08:26 +0000

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’