Category: Software Troubles

Topnotch photo management
article #1466, updated 762 days ago

I was shocked recently, when software for excellent photo management was needed. A whole lot of newer options involving web servers, cloud hosts, etc., but very little simple and powerful, and some standards of yore are gone. However. One is not:

XnView MP

XnView has been around for decades, XnView MP is their new thorough revision. I tested a pile of these things, and XnView MP is by far the best, features and speed and design friendly for both new user and the technical.

Here are the others I tested:

  • Irfanview (has features, much less friendly)
  • nomacs (lacking features)
  • digiKam (too slow, crashy)
  • jpegview (lacking features)
  • FastStone Image Viewer (lacking batch resize)
  • ImageGlass Spider (lacking features)
  • ACDSee Photo Studio (expensive, overkill, bloatware)
  • Various Adobe products (expensive and overkill, or free and lacking features)

If you have better, please do let me know!

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Recover keys for Office 2010, Windows 7, and other products
article #237, updated 4822 days ago

These folks:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

are offering an applet called “ProduKey”, which recovers keys for Office 2010, Windows 7, and lots of other things.

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Download StorageCraft
article #183, updated 4976 days ago

To download StorageCraft:

http://www.storagecraft.com/software_update.php

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StorageCraft ImageManager won’t connect
article #167, updated 5018 days ago

If the GUI won’t connect, find this file:

C:\Program Files\StorageCraft\ImageManager\ImageManager.exe.config

and then find an area which looks like this:

<setting name="password" serializeAs="String">
<value>rtfopwerfaassa</value>
</setting>

and remove everything between and .  Then restart the ImageManager service, and you will be able to connect with no password.

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Cannot open the Outlook window in Office 2007
article #163, updated 5020 days ago

If the Outlook 2007 window cannot be opened, run the following command line:

outlook.exe /resetnavpane 

and try again.

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Symantec Antivirus manual removal
article #57, updated 5704 days ago

Here is a document:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2006022212084148?Open&docid=2002031914291648&nsf=ent-security.nsf&view=docid

It is recommended that the following procedure be used:

a) Disable services
b) Remove everything possible using rmdir /s while terminating processes
c) Reboot
d) Disable one more service
e) Complete the task using the Revo Uninstaller tool (see previous post).

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