Some Notes on the Machines

See here:

http://notes.ponderworthy.com/logmein-settings-for-routers-firewalls

A new tool from Microsoft, intended to replace msicuu2:

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall/

There is something different, a procedure, for XP/2003 32/64 here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346/en-us#method2

Here are some great tweaks:

http://betanews.com/2011/01/20/use-hidden-windows-tweaks-to-speed-up-your-internet-and-network-connections/

Here are some tools known to do well with this:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?197835-IntelBurnTest-The-new-stress-testing-program

http://www.inquisitor.ru/about/

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

Nothing has helped me so well as the GO Launcher EX for phone and the GO Launcher HD. They replace the builtin GUI shell. They come with a bunch of default icons that you may well immediately remove but oh it is worth it.

Here is a great article:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20098098-285/how-to-check-if-a-web-site-is-safe/

Here is a great resource:

http://www.sitejabber.com/

It is often a good idea to add QuickBooks file extensions to antimalware exceptions lists.  Here:

http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/Pages/InProductHelp/Core/QB2K8/ContentPackage/Core/File_Other/info_file_extensions.html

is a list of those extensions.

If you find that you have Quickbooks files getting marked read-only in inexplicable fashion when they are being served on a network, try this:

http://community.intuit.com/posts/file-getting-marked-read-only-on-windows-server-2003-and-quickbooks-2010

You probably need the latest version of the server piece of QuickBooks running on the server.

If QuickBooks fails altogether to register, or if it “stops” while trying to register online, try this:

1. Open the QuickBooks application
2. Help menu; then “About QuickBooks: Premier Nonprofit Edition 2010…”
3. The About screen comes up. Hold down Ctrl, press R and then P
4. A special screen comes up for manual registration. Call the phone number visible, they will give you a code.