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Filmstrip view missing in XP

Mark — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:11:34 +0000

A user was attempting to view a folder with pictures in it and wanted to use Filmstrip view, but it had disappeared from the view menu.

The way to get this option back is to go to,
Control Panel
System
on the Advanced tab under performance click settings
Untick use common tasks in folders click apply
Re-tick use common tasks in folders click apply and ok

Filmstrip should now appear again.

Access denied when tring to access mapped drives and join a domain

Mark — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:32:21 +0000

One day when trying to access a mapped drive i received an “access denied” if i tried to access the server directly using the share name it prompted for a username and password and even though the details are correct the box keeps coming back.

So i dis-joined it from the domain and attempted to rejoin it again but again got the access denied error message, after some searching it turned out to be SMB signing was turned off on the client machine, to re-enable i needed to go to the following registry keys

HKLM\system\current control set\services\lanmanserver\parameters
HKLM\system\current control set\services\lanmanworkstation\parameters

Requiresecuitysignature change to 1
Enablesecuritysignature change to 1

and after a reboot all was well again.

Sage Line 50 corrupt licence file

Mark — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:27:52 +0000

Today I had an issue with the licence file within line 50 going corrupt, so it wouldn’t let me change the activation key to upgrade the program it just kept saying the serial number and activation key combination was incorrect.
To solve this issue you need to rename the licence key file so the program can generate a new one the file is located in the following location.

Windows XP
C:\documents and settings\all users\application data\sage\accounts\2010\sage.usr

Window 7
C:\programdata\sage\accounts\2010\sage.usr

Office 2007 The windows installer service cannot update one or more protected windows files.

Mark — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:24:53 +0000

This error is due to the office installer not seeing files in the c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\40\bin.
I’m not sure why they weren’t their as it was a fresh install of xp pro sp3 off the dell cd, but the solution to this error is to install the Frontpage 2000 server extensions.

Go to control panel – add/remove programs – add/remove windows components highlight iis and click details, tick the Frontpage 2000 server extensions box, it also ticked a couple more boxes on my install, I suppose it depends what you are missing, and click ok.

It may need the disk so have that handy if you haven’t got the i386 folder on your hard drive.

Then try reinstalling office 2007.

CA eTrust ITM Firewall exclusions

Mark — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:18:53 +0000

Three firewall exclusions are needed for the ITM client to work properly for the phone home, av updates, and policy distribution etc, they need to be added to the windows firewall.

eTrust ITM – Realtime monitor — c:\program files\ca\etrustitm\realmon.exe

eTrust ITM – RPC Service — c:\program files\ca\etrustitm\inorpc.exe

eTrust ITM – Shell Scanner — c:\program files\ca\etrustitm\shellscn.exe

Remove old locations from offline files

Mark — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:16:43 +0000

I can across offline files trying to sync data from several old locations on a laptop but there is no obvious way to remove the locations from the sync manager i can across this solution on the interweb.

Click start run mobsync
uncheck all locations in sync manager, then click the setup tab and uncheck all the locations under Logon/Logoff

Once this is done open a command prompt and type

reg add “hklm\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\netcache” /v FormatDatabase /t reg_dword /d 00000001
reg delete “hkcu\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\netcache\shares” /f
reg add “hkcu\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache\Shares” /ve
reg delete “hkcu\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\netcache\AssignedOfflineFolders” /f
reg add “hkcu\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache\AssignedOfflineFolders” /ve

Reboot your computer and offline files will start to rebuild, restart again for the redirected folders to rebuild.

System restore from the recovery console (sort of)

Mark — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:08:39 +0000

I needed to run a system restore on a windows xp pc the other day but the system wouldn’t boot into to normal or safe mode so i needed to run a system restore from dos i found an article to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents xp from booting. KB307545

To restore the registry boot from the windows xp cd at start the recovery console when prompted then type the following commands.

md tmp
copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak

delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default

copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default

then reboot and hope it starts this obviously doesn’t replace any system files like a true system restore does but hopefully it will let the system start.