Website's security certificate missing Link "Continue to this website (not recommended)"

1. Open Registry Editor
2. Go to Computer | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOftware | Microsoft | Cryptography | OID | Encoding

Type 0

CertDLLCreateCertificateChainEngine | Config

3. Right-click "Config" --> New --> DWORD(32 bit) Value --> type MinRsaPubKeyBitLength --> Modify --> select "Decimal" --> enter the value of 512

4. Close Registry Editor
5. Refresh the page of press F5
6. "Continue to this website..." will now appear and you can continue to open the page.

Diskpart

diskpart
list disk
select disk <>
clean

list volume
select volume <>

create partition primary
format fs=FAT32 quick label=music

active
assign
exit

You receive a "The User Profile Service failed the logon” error message

Open Regedit:

Fix user profile: Boot into SAFE MODE.
In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
(you should see something like this:
S-1-5-21-2414906541-2131738454-87829136-1001
S-1-5-21-2414906541-2131738454-87829136-1001.bak

Simply rename the .bak file extension to .ba so the system doesn't read it.

If there is only one profile in there, then just rename it so it doesn't have ".bak" extension

Disable / Block GEOLOCATION

Open Regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RealVNC\VNCViewer4\MRU
And delete all 01, 02, etc values without caring about the order value.

Disable / Block GEOLOCATION

People can not spy on you. Firefox only requests a location when a website makes a request, and only shares your location when you has approved the request. Firefox does not track or remember your location as you browse.

It is an opt-in service, to turn disable it do the following:

* Type about:config into the location bar and press enter

Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences

* Locate the preference geo.enabled, double-click on it to change its value to false

Bootable Win7 USB Flash drive

Step 1: Format the Drive

Right-Click Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”

Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window:

diskpart

list disk

(assuming your USB flash drive is disk 1)

select disk 1

clean

create partition primary

select partition 1

active

format fs=NTFS

assign

exit

Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable

Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:

d:

cd d:\boot

Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I’m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer:

bootsect /nt60 g:

close the command prompt window

Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive

The easiest way is to use Windows explorer to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash drive. After you’ve copied all of the files the disk you are ready to go.

Bootloader - Bootable USB...

To make a bootable USB drive / key:

1.) Copy all files from this CD onto the USB drive.

It cannot be in a subdirectory on the drive.
You do not need delete files already on the drive.

2.) Install the bootloader

On the USB drive, there should now be a file "syslinux.exe".
Start a command line window (cmd.exe) with "run as administrator"
From the command line, run the command like this:

j:\syslinux.exe -ma j:

replace j with some other letter if your USB drive is on another drive letter than j:

Code Error HRESULT 0xc8000222 NET Framework 4.0. INSTALL ERROR

Code Error HRESULT 0xc8000222 NET Framework 4.0. INSTALL ERROR

Here come the solution: Just before installing. NET Framework 4.0:

1.) open "cmd"

2.) type in command "net stop "WuAuServ" (disable windows update)

3.) Head over to Run ( Win+R ) and type in "%windir%" (this command line enable you to head over to your microsoft windows system folder)

4.) Find the folder "SoftwareDistribution" and rename it as "SDold"

5.) Then, go back the previous command prompt and also run the command line "net start WuAuServ"

6.) At this point, try to install. NET Framework again.

Remove outlook e-mail history

Go to Tools> Options> Preferences> Email Options> Advanced Email Options and uncheck 'Suggest names when completing....'

or

If you want to deleted all of them instead of one at a time, delete the NK2 file from

C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook.

That NK2 file is the cached list that comes up.

Create a Bootable USB

Required:
· USB Flash Drive (4GB+)
· Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7)
· A computer running Vista / Windows 7

Step 1: Format the Drive:
Command Prompt window:
1. diskpart
2. list disk
The number of your USB drive will listed. You'll need this for the next step. I'll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1.
Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number "1" with the number of your disk below.
3. select disk 1
4. clean
5. create partition primary
6. select partition 1
7. active
8. format fs=NTFS
8. assign
10. exit
When that is done you'll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.

Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable
Next we'll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Vista or Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable. In the same command window that you were using in Step 1:

1. Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive.

2. Change directory to the DVD's boot directory where bootsect lives:
d:
cd d:\boot

3. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I'm assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer:
bootsect /nt60 g:

4. You can now close the command prompt window, we're done here.

Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive
The easiest way is to use Windows explorer to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash drive. After you've copied all of the files the disk you are ready to go.

Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB
This is where you're on your own since every computer is different. Most BIOS's allow you to hit a key at boot and select a boot option.

Excel 2007 Macro Problem / Excel 2007 Macros Greyed out

Simple but often missed fix:

1. Use MSO2007 Installation CD.

2. Make sure the "Visual Basic for Applications" option is installed:

+ Office Shared Features

+ Visual Basic for Applications

3. Enable macros:

• Click on: Office Button | Excel Options | Trust Center | Trust Center Settings (Button on Right) | Macro Settings
  
  
• Make sure you "Enable all Macros"
  

Put the "show desktop" icon back in the Quick Launch toolbar

To get a show desktop icon in your Quick Launch toolbar you simply have to Enable the Quick Launch Toolbar However if you have previously had the Quick launch toolbar enabled but have deleted the show desktop icon, here is one way to get it back.

1. Open Notepad and type the following text. (or copy and paste it)

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

3. Save the text you typed as file name Show Desktop.scf to your desktop.

4. Now the show desktop icon will be on your desktop and you can drag it to the quick launch toolbar

Cannot open Outlook Express

Goto START, RUN

type: " regsvr32 inetcomm.dll" (sans quotes) press <enter>

reboot.

Work around fix:
(nothing else would work, BIOS update, fresh install, all for naught)

Disable the "SiS PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller" and poof! The computer should recognize all of the USB 2.0 mass storage devices.

You can also add an application to the "Open With" dialog box for all file types. Again, you head for the following Registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Applications

Display the subkey named after the application’s executable file. (If the subkey doesn’t exist, create it.) Now add the \shell\open\command subkey and set the Default value to the pathname of the application’s executable file.

• Navigate to this :
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\
  {4D36E965-E325 -11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
  

• DELETE "Upperfilters" and "Lowerfilters"

• Navigate to this :
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
  
  
• There should be only one entry here,
  • (DEFAULT) REG_SZ (value not set)
  if you find anything else, delete it.
  
  
• Click on the plus sign next to Policies, there should be only one entry: Explorer
  if you see any other folders, delete them
  
  
• now click on Explorer, this is all you should see:
  • (DEFAULT) REG_SZ (value not set)
  • NoDriveAutoRun REG_DWORD 0x00000091 (145)
  if you see any other entries, delete them
  
• Navigate to this :
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325 -11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
  

• DELETE "Upperfilters" and "Lowerfilters"

• Close regedit and reboot, your wallpaper settings will now be back to normal :-)
  

The built-in Administrator account is hidden from Welcome Screen when a user account with Administrator privileges exists and enabled. In Windows XP Home Edition, you can login as built-in Administrator in Safe Mode only. For XP Professional, press CTRL + ALT + DEL twice at the Welcome Screen and input your Administrator password in the classic logon window that appears.

• To have the Administrator account display in the Welcome Screen:
• Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe, Navigate to the following key:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList
• Use the File, Export option to backup the key.
• Right-click in the right pane and select New DWORD Value.
• Type-in Administrator as the value.
• Double-click Administrator, and assign a value of 1
• Close Regedit
  
  You may use this procedure to hide/show users in the Welcome Screen for any user account. Type the account name accordingly in step 6.
  

• By Diana Huggins
If your drives are formatted with NTFS, you have the option of using encryption. Windows XP uses the Encrypting File System (EFS) which lets you encrypt your folders and files for increased security. Normally to encrypt a folder or file, you would have to do so from the folder or file's properties window and access the advanced attributes. Wouldn't it be great though if you could just encrypt or decrypt a file or folder using the shortcut menu?

Well here's a nifty little tip that does just that... it adds the encrypt and decrypt options to the shortcut menu for a folder or file. Of course, a word of caution: the following steps do require you to modify the registry, so proceed carefully:

Click Start, point to run, and type regedit.
Within the Registry Editor, navigate to the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Click the Edit menu, point to New, and select Dword value.
Type in EncryptionContextMenu. Configure the value as 1.
You should now be able to encrypt or decrypt any of your folders and files using the shortcut menu.

Create a shortcut with the following path:

c:\windows\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

Open your registry editor and navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\My Computer\Namespace\DelegateFolders.

Locate the {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} subkey and delete it. Upon doing so, you will have successfully removed the Shared Documents folder from your computer.

Before applying this tweak, first check the amount of internal memory (RAM) installed on your computer.

Go to the desktop, select "My Computer" with the right-click of your mouse, then select "properties" and
on the Tab "General" you will see the amount of RAM-memory installed displayed (see picture 1).

To speed up your Disk cache follow the next steps:

"regedit".

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management/IoPageLockLimit

Double click on the key "IoPageLockLimit" and change the value data in Hex depends on the amount of installed internal memory on your computer.

64MB : 1000
128MB : 4000
256MB : 10000
512MB or more : 40000

The modifications you made will be in effect after you reboot your PC.

To rebuild the Driver Information or Hardware Information database:

• Rename the Drvdata.bin and Drvidx.bin files.
  
  

• Click Start, point to Find, and then click Files Or Folders.

• In the Named box, type drvdata.bin, and then click Find Now.

• Right-click the Drvdata.bin file, click Rename, type a new name for the Drvdata.bin file (for example, Drvdata.xxx), and then press the ENTER key.
  
  
• Repeat steps a through c for the Drvidx.bin file, and then quit the Find tool.
  
  
• Restart your computer normally.
  
  After you restart your computer in normal mode, you are notified that Windows is building the Driver Information database or the Hardware Information database. Your Plug and Play devices are detected again, those devices' busses are enumerated again, and then Windows receives the device information through the BIOS and prompts you to install the default driver for the device. You may also be prompted to insert a disk for the device. If the driver that you want to install is different than the default driver, you can choose the driver that you want to install.

When its file association is messed up. EXE's file association is itself... PROGRAM.EXE is needed for opening files of type 'Application'

• Fire up your Registry editor and navigate to:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Classes \ Exefile \ Shell \ Open \ Command

• Now, whatever value is in there needs to be replaced with the following: "%1" %* (exactly as shown). You should only have to do this when your EXEs have stopped launching properly. %1 in the string defines the object. As a matter of fact, you can also use the %1 trick to change the default icons for BMP, ICO, CUR, ANI, ICL, DLL, or CPL files. Look up at the exefile's DefaultIcon key. See how the data column has a %1? Peruse through the Classes key until you find the filetype name (its extension towards the top of the list will let you know precisely). For instance, BMP is also classified as Paint.Picture. Change its default icon to %1 and you'll have BMP thumbnails in all of Explorer's views instead of the default BMP icon.

You will need NIC Driver and Win9x CAB files.

• Remove everything in Network Neighborhood Configuration.

• Find and Delete/Rename: VIP.386, VTCP.386, VDHCP.386, VTDI.386, VNBT.386

• Backup the Registry, then do the following:

• HKLM | System | CurrentControlSet | Services | (delete both WINSOCK and WINSOCK2 folders)

• HKLM | System | CurrentControlSet | Services | VXD |(delete DHCP, MSTCP, WINSOCK and WINSOCK2 Folders)

• Reboot Computer.

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Export the OE registry keys
====================
Create another new folder to hold the registry files, for example
"D:\Data Files\Outlook Express\Registry\"

From Regedit, export these 4 keys as *.reg files and save them in your OE Registry folder:

• \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities
• \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager
• \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express
• \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4\Wab File Name

Question: Is there a difference between gold and "regular" connectors on my sound card and will I ruin the computer if I plug the wrong metal jack into it?

Answer: There is a difference between gold and "regular" connectors, but you don't have to worry about damaging the motherboard by plugging in one or the other. The gold connectors are the best connectors you can get, because they don't oxidize as fast as "regular" connectors and they conduct electricity better, making a faster and cleaner signal to the motherboard. You're probably wondering why oxidation matters, so lets think of this non-technically for a minute. Imagine you are trying to talk to a friend on the phone, but you have placed a sheet over the receiver. Although your friend can hear you and probably make out what you are saying, it will sound muffled and your friend may have to strain to hear it. That is kind of what it is like for your computer to communicate to a card with oxidation on the connectors. Don't worry if you have "regular" connectors on your internal cards; make sure you take your computer in for regular maintenance or buy products online to de-oxidize the connectors yourself.

Tip is for the Windows XP users in the crowd. Some users have noticed that Windows XP can be slow when trying to access a folder full of media files (i.e. AVI/MPEG/DAT). Although I can't find anything on Microsoft's Web site that addresses this problem, it was still brought to our attention that there is a fix. Now, this fix will require you to edit your registry so I will STRONGLY refer you to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q322755 for the steps on how to back up your registry (REMEMBER: registry tweaking can be tricky!). Click the Start button, go to the Run command, type "Regedit," and click OK. Once inside the Registry Editor, click Edit, then Find. In the "Find What" field, type in "{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}" (without the quotes) and click Find Next. Once the Registry Editor finds this folder, you will see that inside it is a folder named InProcServer32. Click on this folder, and delete both registry keys inside. Now, just exit the Registry Editor and reboot. With any luck, this will get rid of this sluggishness for you Windows XP users.

How to Create a Script for the Rules Wizard

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q306108

This Microsoft Knowledge Base article tells you how to create a script for Outlook 2002 that would allow you to perform tasks that are not possible using the regular features of the Rules Wizard. The catch is that you can't create the script in Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) or any other scripting languages except Outlook Visual Basic for Applications. This article assumes that you already understand the programming language and understand your programming options. You also can't mass deploy your creation, as you will need to configure each users computer to use your custom code.

Question: Why does XP disconnect network drives? I am using XP Professional logged to a Windows 2000 domain server, and after a period of inactivity, XP disconnects my network drives. I can disable and re-enable the network connection to reestablish the drive, but that is a pain. Any suggestions?

Answer: Microsoft acknowledged it as a problem and that removing and then re-adding the computer to the domain is the current fix. [BS]

Remove everything in Network Neighborhood Configuration.

Find and delete VIP.386, VTCP.386, VDHCP.386, VTDI.386, VNBT.386

Backup the Registry, then do the following:

HKLM | System | CurrentControlSet | Services | (delete both WINSOCK and WINSOCK2 folders)

HKLM | System | CurrentControlSet | Services | VXD |(delete DHCP, MSTCP, WINSOCK and WINSOCK2 Folders)

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Host Name: cx246966-h
Firmware Version: 1.37, Jan 03 2001

LAN:
(MAC Address: 00-20-78-D8-AD-77)
IP Address: 192.168.254.88
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP server: Enabled

WAN:
(MAC Address: 00-20-78-D8-AD-78)
IP Address: 68.4.38.7
Subnet Mask: 255.255.254.0
Default Gateway: 68.4.38.1
DNS: 68.4.8.229, 68.4.16.30
-----------------------------------------------
IP Address: 68.4.50.221
Gateway: 68.4.48.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.252.0