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How to manually uninstall McAfee Agent. This has to be one of the worst pieces of software to uninstall.  If you’re lucky enough to “uninstall” it from Add/Remove Program, it will eventually reinstall, if it’s managed by an ePO server.  Uninstalling it as local/domain admin won’t help either.  I Google’d the problem and found...
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  So I did something really stupid yesterday.  I deleted an AD account, in order to rebuild it, without backing up the exchange mailbox first.  I normally don’t do things haphazardly but that’s how it unfolded.  But I digress…. The user’s mailbox disappeared and didn’t appear in the disconnected mailbox view.  I literally almost...
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I had a user today that needed Microsoft 2007 Excel help. She was unable to print an Excel spreadsheet correctly. After some questioning and watching the user flow through her process, I noticed something interesting. She was unable to print the data in the sheet tabs at the bottom of her spreadsheet. I went...
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Microsoft Word 2010 There is not enough memory or disk space to complete the operation. I had a user complain a lot recently about a There is not enough memory or disk space to compete the operation error in Microsoft Word 2012.  I Google’d the issue and here is what I found.  A particular add-in could...
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Windows 7 Remote Desktop Windows 7 remote desktop is not enabled by default When Windows 7 remote desktop is enabled, any member of the Administrator groups can connect Click Start -> right-click Computer -> select Properties -> select Remote settings at the top left corner -> select either of the two Allow connections… depending on your security preferences.
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IE 7 for Windows 7 So you want to use IE 7 for Windows 7?  Unfortunately, you can’t.  I already looked.  It’s not possible.  Why would you want to?
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Western Digital Live Hub – WD Live – BMK Files The BMK files you see in your WD Live Hub are resume points or bookmarks. When you play a movie that has a .BMK file, it will ask you want to resume or restart. You can safely remove the .BMK files.  When a BMK file...
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IPsec.sys infected – TDSKILLER won’t remove rootkit So TDSKILLER was unable to remove a rootkit that infected ipsec.sys.  After a quick Google search, I found my answer.  I had to run SFC /SCANNOW. Here’s how to do it: Open the command prompt Type sfc /scannow in the command prompt and press enter (there’s a space between sfc and...
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Windows – Open Add / Remove Programs from command line Here’s a Windows quick tip if you ever need to open add / remove program from the command line. Bring up the command prompt or the run field and type appwiz.cpl I’ve ran this as administrator many times without needing the user to log...
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IE – Internet Explorer crashes when typing in Google search bar / Disable Google autocomplete I’ve noticed this problem for a while but recently it’s been annoying. Annoying to the point that I decided to look for a fix. Maybe it will help you. Problem: IE (Internet Explorer) crashes when typing a certain letter/letters...
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