Some Notes on the Machines

Check your favorite web site’s SSL security, to see if it can be straightforwardly compromised:

https://sslcheck.globalsign.com

If you have a problem with COM port devices under Windows 7 or later, your system may think it has autodetected it as an old-style RS-232C port mouse! To fix that, regedit here:

hklm\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sermouse

and change the DWORD Start to 4. This prevents the autodetection of COM-port mice!

Contributed by the excellent Brad Hollingsworth.

This is a situation in which Office 2013, either 32-bit or 64-bit, will not run on any install. The way to handle it, is to disable “hardware acceleration” by registry entry. Go here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common

then create key Graphics, and then in that key a DWORD DisableHardwareAcceleration, set value to 1 for disable.

There is a way, it requires a registry change.

http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/How_to_View_the_Complete_Message_Source_in_Outlook.htm

If a PC can browse the web but cannot see Windows shares, and/or the NIC is red-X’d in the tray, check the “Network Connections” service: it should be set to Manual, but it needs to be running, and if it’s not, you have the problem which I am writing about here :-) This is known to work in Windows 7, according to web resources it appears to be good for others as well.

1. Open an administrative command shell, or run these using CMD in a remote management tool like Labtech.
2. Run this: sfc /scannow If it says it fixed anything, reboot, and if all is well you’re done. If not:
3. Run this: netsh winsock reset & shutdown -f -r -t 0 The PC will reboot. Check again. If not done yet:
4. Then run this: netsh int ip reset C:\ipreset.log & shutdown -f -r -t 0 The PC will reboot again.

If not done yet, let me know what you did to fix it!!!

Lots of information here:

http://www.labtechwiki.com

Here is a simple procedure for CMD, it works as long as the queue location was not changed:

net stop spooler
del /F /Q %systemroot%\System32\spool\PRINTERS\*
net start spooler

Here is possibly the best generic list:

http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration

The widely recommended method, is to connect to the Office365 Exchange server via PowerShell. This may need to be done in PowerShell run as administrator; certainly the first line has to be run thusly, although that one line may have to be run only once per client machine.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

(type Y for Yes)

$LiveCred = Get-Credential

(enter your Office365 administrative credentials)

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $Session
Set-RemoteDomain Default -TNEFEnabled $false
Remove-PSSession $Session

A great way to download the current Chromium browser, is here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/crupdater/