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Office Word 2003/2007 mouse hourglassing (blinking)

Posted: June 29th, 2010 | Author: paul | Filed under: howto, idiots | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

My buddy with the gmail account problems in Outlook 2007 said today that the Word’s behavior is odd and the mouse cursor is switching fast between edit vertical line (text select) and the hour glass.

Investigating and applying different solutions including complete reinstall, rename Normal.dot or delete Data and Options sections from registry, uninstalling using revo uninstaller didn’t fixed the problem.

So, I went back to forums and after half an hour of reading I have found that the default printer may cause this problem.

Setting (the) other printer as default one or uninstalling it fixed the problem.

Now I have to find other/better drivers because each time when he will need to print something from Word he will need to select another printer.

Of course OpenOffice has no problems at all :)


Fix 0x800CCCDD Outlook 2007 and gmail account

Posted: June 27th, 2010 | Author: paul | Filed under: howto, idiots | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

I had to configure a gmail imap account for a friend on Outlook 2007.
Using settings from google’s page for Outlook configuration did not work for me.
I was getting “Error message-IMAP server closed connection Error Code: 0x800CCCDD”. I have tried almost anything, the connection to the imap server didn’t worked.

I have used thunderbird to test and it worked from the first attempt.

After a while I have noticed that the image with the account details has the password entered and the “Remember password” option checked.
So, I have filled the password field, checked to remember the password and , IT WORKEED.

Idiots!


Error while uninstalling Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC

Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: paul | Filed under: howto, idiots | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

I’m back with another strange error probably caused by an interrupted installation of Microsoft Visio 2010.

So, while uninstalling Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC on Windows 7 Enterprise the following error appears:
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC Setup
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Error 1402.Could not open key: UNKNOWN\Components\72CC1F6E4CA6F4A4F8B68FD11DB44E14\4848F1E21D219AC3A8BD8C2FAA4300B4. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.

By error number looks like a registry permission error, investigation at Microsoft didn’t helped me much.
Repair/reinstall failed, so, don’t bother.

After reading a few pages I end up restoring permissions on registry keys using the methods from this page.

After changing permissions for these keys:
8EEF86DD963C1D111A37000A9CA05BF0
68D4BEEE50F999F45A35B6ABBE7E7E0D
1165D2FB630CB174699B857E4C6F9CD7
BA32B1FDF3481944B907A0A07D8FD197
1A01EC3CAB255B145AA0011CA52426E0
5E93D71C1C924E940A3A3ACF1453FA71
B924160F488F4D143B89478C920459E4
C52BBB7D63AE3824BA2A75A9B7BA309F
72CC1F6E4CA6F4A4F8B68FD11DB44E14

I have changed the permissions for the whole Components subtree.

Uninstall was easy, only after.
HTH


azureus ate my memory

Posted: November 25th, 2009 | Author: paul | Filed under: howto, idiots | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

I use Azureus (called Vuze from a while) for the same reason as you do. :)
I dislike uTorrent, the lighter bittorrent client, maybe because azureus gives me more control.

Sometimes, I must use an old laptop with only 512MB RAM. And, here comes the trouble.
If I start Firefox and azureus, all my RAM is gone.
Looking on internet using Mr. Google’s search engine I found this:

“C:\Program Files\Vuze\Azureus.exe” -J-Xmx64m

Create a new shortcut, paste the above and use it.
Give it a try!


Trac 0.11 – Fix Clearsilver dependency

Posted: November 20th, 2009 | Author: paul | Filed under: howto, idiots, linux | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

If you get the following message:

You're using a plugin which requires the Clearsilver template engine
and Clearsilver is not installed. Either disable that plugin or install Clearsilver.

But, you have compiled and installed latest clearsilver from sources and copied neo_cgi.so to site-packages, and still not working, here is what to you have to do.

For this environment was tested: Linux opensuse 11.1 and centos 5.2, Trac 0.11 with python 2.4 or 2.6, TracDownloader and/or TracWikiToPdfPlugin installed.

Search for clearsilver-*.egg in site-packages and move to another directory.

My clearsilver package name was: clearsilver-0.10.1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg
Restart apache.

Enjoy and say thanks if this solved your problem.