Archive for November, 2007
Win XP Tweaks
———–STARTUP———–Windows Prefetcher******************[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Session Manager \ Memory Management \ PrefetchParameters]Under this key there is a setting called EnablePrefetcher, the defaul…
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Loading ...Delete An “undeletable” File
Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.Close all open programs.Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXEGo to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.Leave Task Manager open.Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the director…
Credential Prompts on Vista with Sharepoint and Office
Since using Vista at Microsoft I’ve been victim to more credential prompts in the
past year than I have in my life. It really drives me nuts and I had no idea why.
There are two kinds of prompts I see:
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credentials prompt from sharepoint when opening an office document (clicking a link
to a word doc - credentials prompt in Outlook when connecting to Exchange
Now in a domain controlled environment you should never see prompts at all unless
you don’t have access to a resource. Windows takes care of this via Single Signon
etc.
Well FINALLY I see David
Rasmussen posted an explanation of issue #1, with a link to the SharePoint
team blog explaining the issue. Sadly our IT department had no clue about this
when I would call them.
The issue is that you must have “Automatically Detect Settings” enabled in
your proxy configuration in IE. The problem is that in Hotmail we use some custom
proxy servers to communicate with our labs and you need to disable “Automatically
Detect Settings” to get to work. I can’t tell you how many times I go to that dammed
dialog to configure proxy settings. The crazy thing about this behavior is that if
you just hit cancel on the credential dialog the document would still open:
With Office 2007 running on Windows Vista, opening an Office document hosted on a
SharePoint (i.e. WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007) site results in a prompt for login credentials
even if the user is already logged on with an account that has access to the document. Canceling
the credential prompt may still (but not always) allow the document to open in read-only
mode.
And of course if you wanted to edit the doc you were out of luck.
Issue #2 is related to some configuration issues in our DOMAIN environment that have
been addressed, but nasty to track down. We all suffered a lot in the interim (entering
credentials as many times as > 100 a day).
Another weirdo Vista problem solved. This is why I hate new Operating Systems. Too
many regressions that are very hard to understand let alone get a fix.
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Winsock 2 repair
Repairing Damaged Winsock2The symptoms when Winsock2 is damaged show when you try to release and renew the IP address using IPCONFIG…And you get the following error message:An error occurred while renewing interface ‘Internet’: An operation was attem…
Steps to Clean Install XP
If the above instructions for configuring your system to boot from CD or you have acquired the necessary boot floppy/floppies; you can now boot the computer and follow the on screen prompts. Have your Product Key available, typical install is aroun…
Explanation about bandwidth
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Who’s Seeding the Net With Spyware?
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Reboot Without Rebooting
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Computer Maintenance
You may not realize it, but your computer and your car have something in common: they both need regular maintenance. No, you don’t need to change your computer’s oil. But you should be updating your software, keeping your antivirus subscription up to d…
Why Doesn’t Windows Remember My Folder View Settings?
Grab your registry editor and join inIf you’ve changed the view settings for a folder, but Windows “forgets” the settings when you open the folder again, or if Windows doesn’t seem to remember the size or position of your folder window when you reopen …
