Have you seen the error “word experienced an error trying to open the file” when using Outlook 2016? This is because the Office trust settings are preventing you from opening untrusted files. Follow these steps to work around the issue – Close Outlook Open Word Go to File and Options Go to Trust settings, and… Read More »
You try and update WordPress to a new version and it breaks! Here are some handy troubleshooting steps to help you find and fix the errors Turn on debug mode – you need access to your website by FTP or control panel. Edit the file called wp-config.php which is located in the folder /public_html You… Read More »
After running the installer for AutoCAD LT 2017 you may get a host of error messages warning about missing DLL’s. To fix this you can either download the full installation from Autodesk, go to the extracted folder and run the Visual Studio installer, normally something like C:\Autodesk\AutoCAD_LT_2017_NWL_English_Win_64bit_dlm\3rdParty\x64\VCRedist\2015\vcredist_x64.exe You can also find it here – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145… Read More »
A customer complained that when sending emails from a PC to his Mac all attachments would be received as winmail.dat Ironically they sent as regular attachments under one windows profile but were always received as winmail.dat when sent from the second profile. On inspection the usual suspects were set correctly, that is check that messages… Read More »
You have a USB drive with files copied from a windows server / pc and you want to copy them onto a proxmox server – First install ntfs-3g by running the command apt-get ntfs-3g mkdir /usbdrive mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /usbdrive use rsync to copy the data across – rsync -a /usbdrive /todestinationpath
I came across some inaccessible folders and files on a clients Drobo B800i connected by iSCSI. After doing a little research it is clear that running chkdsk /r is NOT the thing to do as you want to allow the Drobo to manage its own bad sectors and not mess with that. However, when you… Read More »
When trying to connect to a computer remotely you might run into a frustrating problem – when you try and type the letter ‘u’ on the keyboard narrator opens instead of typing it into the username or password field. Solution – from the narraor launch the on screen keyboard, next select the windows key and… Read More »
After upgrading to Windows 10 I faced an ‘unrecoverable error’ when attempting to resume my virtual machines. I found articles recommending you remove the cdrom device as it is handled differently in windows 10 which also led me to notice I could not edit the virtual machine. Solution – Power down the VM. You will… Read More »
Symptoms – Chrome is very slow to load, or just doesn’t load at all. If you check process explorer you can see all the chrome processes listed as normal but chrome will not open on screen. If you leave it long enough you might be lucky enough to come back and find chrome open on… Read More »
Upgraded to windows 10 and getting errors when sending emails from Outlook. Chances are you are using Google App sync which is not yet supported on Windows 10. Google is always behind when it comes to the latest MS software updates so its always good to remember to check if Google App sync supports the… Read More »