So, you have installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008, created a Web Project using the ASP.NET Development server, hit F5 and you are greeted with this:
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.
This is NOD32’s fault.
Set the NOD32’s control panel to advanced mode.
Go to Setup->Antivirus and antispyware…
and click on Web Access protection->Configure…
Select "HTTP and POP3 ports" in the Protocol Filtering section.
Done!
So, on my laptop, a HP 8510w running Windows Vista Ultimate x64, I did enable the advanced performance option in the Policies for the disk:
What I hoped for was a blasting performance increase that would blow me away. I enabled it and let it on for a couple of weeks. To my disappointment, I didn’t notice much of an improvement. So today, I disabled it back to default. And let me say this: the performance now is a lot better. Everything is snappier, program starts quicker, everything feels a lot smoother.
I didn’t expect that.
So, really what’s the deal here? Maybe this explains a lot.
My suggestion is to let it be disabled.
Cannot open your default email folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your offline folder file.
Well, that isn’t nice.
I did get this error message when I was trying to connect to a customers Exchange Server. I had all that I needed, an AD account, and Exchange account, a dedicated Mail profile set up. And everything worked flawlessly using their Outlook Web Access. But when I tried to connect my laptop with Outlook 2007 to their Exchange Server on the LAN I did get this error message:
Ok.
Here is the deal.
Since my laptop is not a member in their AD(it is a member in another AD), my default (other AD) credentials are passed to my customer’s Exchange Server. That will not work.
So here’s how to fix that.
In short, you need to tell the MAPI profile to prompt for your credentials, so that you get authorized by the Exchange Server properly.
Go to Control Panel -> (View 32-bit Control Panel items, if you are on 64bit) -> Mail
Got to your profile that is suppose to connect to this customers Exchange Server and select “Always prompt for logon credentials”.
Now, when you start Outlook you will have to enter your domain\Username credentials and password.
Here are the steps:
1. Start the Control Panel Mail applet
2. Select the MAPI profile and click properties.
3. Click on E-mail Accounts.
4. Select the Exchange Server account and click on Change.
5. Click on More Settings.
6. Select the Security tab and check the Always prompt for logon credentials.
Done. That should do it.
Today I received a Windows Update for my HP 8510w laptop. The Intel wireless drivers had a new version to install.
Here’s what was thrown at my face:
So, Intel, which button do you want me to click?
And no, the Windows Close button doesn’t do nothing, that’s really nice.
Today I got a update dialog from Adobe Reader, it wanted to update my Reader to v8.1.2.
Fine.
It downloaded the update and starts to install it.
However, in the System Tray I got the following little guy:
So I click it, and the Adobe Updater tells me the following:
Hmm… ok.
It doesn’t say what problem it encountered. Just "The installation process has encountered a problem". So maybe I can find some information in the Application event Log?
No, nothing there.
Maybe there is a log file somewhere?
So I fire up Mark Russinovic’s Handle.exe, which tells me that there is a log file in \AppData\Local\Adobe\Updater5\aum.log. In there I find the following line:
2008-02-07 10:13:05: MsiInstallProduct returned: rc= = 1618
Ok
http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msifaq/error/1618.htm tells me that 1618 means:
Another installation is already in progress. Complete that installation before proceeding with this install.
Ok.
Adobe, wouldn’t it be nice if the AdobeUpdater.exe could tell me this in the dialog instead of just saying "The installation process as encountered a problem"?