TheOfficeCubicle
Repository of stupid computers errors that I deal with on a daily basis…

Ever wonder how to change or modify the Registered Owner in Microsoft Windows XP? If you don’t what I’m talking about…..right-click My Computer and click Properties..on the General tab you will see the Registered Owner.  If you would like to change or add a registered owner to that area……it’s very quick and simple! Here’s how! [...]

Had a user today call saying the Excel spreadsheet they created was calculating the SUM of invisible/hidden rows/columns. The problem was..they didn’t want Excel calculating the SUM of hidden rows and columns. A quick Google told me the SUBTOTAL function calculates the the sum of visible data and ignores invisible data. ALSO, from what I [...]

The Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password is created when a server is promoted to a domain controller. I recently started doing an audit on my domain controllers and noticed no one had documented some of the DSRM passwords.  From experience, having the Directory services Restore Mode (DSRM) password is always a useful thing to [...]

Here’s how to remove those formatting marks/symbols in Microsoft Outlook 2007…the most common to see is the paragraph mark or symbol. Open a blank or new e-mail Click the Microsoft symbol up at the top left of the new e-mail window Click Editor Options at the bottom right Click Display on the left side If you [...]

If your Microsoft Word .doc .docx documents don’t open with Microsoft Word….and open with…let’s say Wordpad or some other program…..there could be a file association problem. Here are a few ways you can associate those .doc and .docx files back to Microsoft Word. FIX#1 **For Microsoft Word 97 and newer*** Click Start Click Run ( Windows [...]

I created a new page up top called “Daily Cubi-Poll!”. My intention is to have well….a daily poll about pretty much anything daily…..let’s see how long I can keep it up…lol

Many a time have I needed to contact someone from outside the network in order to assist with network diagnostics. Maybe you need to ping a web server’s external interface but can’t do it internally……or maybe you need to test a new smtp mail server…..or you just setup ftp and need to prove someone wrong [...]

This is one of the most annoying pieces of shit default software that has come out in quite a while. I thought removing default dial-up software was a pain….this Software Manager program doesn’t seem to have an uninstaller or give me the option in Add/Remove Program to remove. Oh well….after a quick Google, I found [...]

Repair, Reinstall, Uninstall IE8! I’ve installed IE8 many times and have only needed to repair it one time..but…I am sure it will not be the last. Here are some possible fixes for repairing a corrupted IE8.