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Filmstrip view missing in XP

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 [...]

IPSEC service fails to start

I found on several of our servers that the ipsec service fail’s to start on some of our SBS servers, this is because the DNS service randomly picks 2500 ports and seems to pick the port ipsec uses, to fix this you need to add some exclusions into the registry.

Open regedit and go to [...]

Internet Explorer was not able to open this internet site downloading a document from secure website

When attempting to download a pdf file from a secure website in our case the wonderful people at HMRC we received the error message Internet Explorer was not able to open this internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again.

To cut a very long story short it [...]

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

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 [...]

Sage Line 50 username already in use

If you receive username already in use or too many users logged in when trying to go into sage it usually happens if the program crashes or the machine was shut down without logging out properly.

To clear the user go to where ever the sage data is stored in our case it was on [...]

No pixels more than 50% selected?

Tonight I was working with Photoshop trying to make a selection with the lasso tool, when i had made the selection i got the message pop up “No pixels more than 50% selected. Edges of selection will not be visible”

After a bit of digging this turned out to be the feather was too big [...]

Change the MTU under Vista or Windows 7

First of all you are going to need to find the optimum mtu for your situation to do so follow these instructions.

ping www.google.com -f -l 1500 (lower case F and L not a 1)

you will receive something similar to this.

Pinging www.l.google.com [66.102.9.105] with 1500 bytes of data: Packet needs to be fragmented [...]

Excel 2003 slow opening files on a network

Today i came across excel files opening slowly when you search for this problem there appear to be many people having similar issues, to cut a long story short it turned out to be the Office File Validation tool that had come down with the windows updates.

Method 4 solved the issue for me on [...]

Manually Delete a Windows Service

To delete a service manually first of all you need to find the service name go to Administrative Tools and then Services and double click on the service you want to remove, take a note of where it says service name

I this example its AcrSchSvc then you need to open an elevated command [...]

Keep losing the gateway on SBS 2008

I noticed recently when one of our sbs 2008 servers got rebooted the gateway would disappear, the first time it happened i thought nothing of it I just ran the fix my network wizard and that sorted it but the next time it rebooted it disappeared again, it turns out its a known issue i [...]