Archive for June, 2010
Review: Ansmann Rechargeable Batteries
The purpose of this post is to have a running review of Ansmann rechargeable batteries. I recently decided to go Green(er) and on April 20, 2010 I bought the following from Horizon Battery: Ansmann Energy 16 Battery Charger (quantity 1) High-tech charger with automatic refresh function and capacity quick test for up to 16 cells [...]
The server did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on June 29, 2010
Event ID 10010 – The server {4991D34B-80A1-4291-83B6-3328366B9097} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. also Event ID 7024 – The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service terminated with service-specific error 2147500037 (0×80004005). Please refer to: http://www.mitchellenright.com/2009/10/23/dcom-event-id-10010/ These events were not present on subsequent restarts after following my own instructions
KB982524 Some Updates Could Not Be Installed
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on June 29, 2010
This update rollup addresses issues of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and of the Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) on a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. If you run partial-trust Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) XAML browser applications (XBAPs) in the Mozilla Firefox browser, this [...]
HP Pavilion Slimline won’t start -beep code 1-2-2-3
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on June 27, 2010
System: HP Pavilion Slimline desktop Model: s3720f OS: Windows Vista 64-bit Phoenix BIOS IRVINE Motherboard This system wasn’t booting and had a beep code, so naturally I checked the memory first (open the box, pop off the front, lift the lever to pop out the media bay, unscrew the dvd drive, disconnect its cables and press the [...]
Blackberry Bold receiving old emails as new messages
Posted by Mitch in blackberry on June 24, 2010
A user’s Blackberry has been receiving old emails (1 year old roughly) lately. According to the all-knowing Internet, it might be related to having too many messages in your Outlook Inbox. When the BB goes to reconcile, it has trouble dealing with all those messages. I dunno, sounds sketchy, but I checked the user’s Outlook [...]
MS Outlook 2007 crashing print jobs
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on June 23, 2010
A client today brought me an interesting issue where their print jobs were getting stuck in the queue when trying to print from Outlook 2007 and also from AMS (an Insurance agent software suite). Usually I blame printing problems on AMS because it has always had trouble mapping remote printers via its Citrix connection. But [...]
Windows Explorer hangs while renaming files
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on June 23, 2010
I often scan documents to PDF and then transfer to my computer and rename the files. Every time I do this it hangs on renaming the file after I type the new name as it is applying it to the file. System: Windows XP SP3 First thing I will try is rebuilding the Index that [...]
The resource ‘C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof\MSSP3ES.LEX’ does not exist.
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on June 23, 2010
System: Windows XP SP3 Software: Microsoft Office 2007 FULL ERROR: EventID: 1004 Detection of product ‘{00010409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7}’, feature ‘SpellingFiles_ESN’, component ‘{52632CF6-8AAB-11D2-900A-00805F9B1201}’ failed. The resource ‘C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof\MSSP3ES.LEX’ does not exist. The file being referenced is the Spanish Dictionary. Sure enough, the file isn’t there and it’s nowhere on my computer! A search of the internet [...]
Setup Windows Live Messenger on a website
Posted by Mitch in Web Development on June 22, 2010
Let’s say you have an office that uses Microsoft’s Live Messenger and you want to extend customer service or sales efforts to the web. I actually implemented this feature about two years ago and it’s been working flawlessly. So here’s what you do: 1. Goto http://settings.messenger.live.com/applications/websettings.aspx. Sign in with the Windows Live ID of the person [...]
Change Admin Profile picture in WordPress
Posted by Mitch in Web Development on June 7, 2010
Sometimes in your theme or in another blog’s theme you will see a little square for the profile picture (usually a “mystery man” icon: greyed out head). This can be changed or updated by using your Gravatar account: http://www.gravatar.com If you have a WordPress.com account then you already have a Gravatar account…just login to your WordPress.com account [...]