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

Well I recently purchased a terabyte usb hard drive because I got it nice and cheap! ($200).  It’s one of those MyBook drives or whatever.  Anyways…I connected it to a server, shared it, and was able to access it from my workstation just fine…until..I rebooted the server.  I tried accessing the drive from my workstation after the [...]

My bro called me up the other day and asked why he couldn’t open a .docx Microsoft Word file.  After some investigative work, it turns out he didn’t have Office 2007.  Anyways, I guided him to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en ..this is the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack forWord, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats. 
Why did I guide him here?….because [...]

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Some user was complaining to me the other day about not being able to see embedded images in Outlook 2003.  I logged onto his screen and noticed a red x where the image should be.  I had him forward me one of the emails and I was able to see the image just fine.  [...]

Do you have too many open tabs open in IE7?  Do you want an easier way to view all your open tabs?  Try this!  How about pressing Ctrl+Q.  This will give you a nice tiled thumbnail view of all your open tabs.  It sure beats clicking random tabs to get back to your desired website.  It can [...]

You might have noticed the message “Windows has blocked some startup programs” when using Windows Vista.  This is probably due to modifying startup programs using msconfig.  Normally, with other Windows versions, you would modify the msconfig, and after rebooting…a message box would appear on the screen saying something like “You have used System Configuration to [...]

They have finally added the menu option Add to Quick Launch!  This makes life much simplier…..well…..at least it saves me a few seconds at work.  
 
 If you are like me and prefer icons on your Quick Launch Toolbar rather than cluttering your desktop then you might appreciate this as well.  Here’s a picture of the Quick Launch [...]

You might be asking yourself….WTF happened to telnet in Microsoft Vista.  I felt the same way earlier today when trying to telnet into an smtp server.  Well apparently in this version of Windows it’s not installed by default.  In order to install it, you need to do the following:

Start
Control Panel
Programs
Turn Windows features on or off
Click [...]

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What is Active Desktop Recovery – Object doesn’t support this action
What is Active Desktop Recovery?  I don’t care and neither should here.  This is here to help get rid of that annoying Active Desktop Recovery background.
See below if you want to remove that annoying Active Desktop Recovery issue!

I had an Active Desktop Recovery problem [...]

Did you know you could shadow the console session in Windows 2003 using RDP?  Well it’s possible!  There are far and better programs out there that allow you to do this but it’s possible with RDP.

 Log into server you want to shadow and issue gpedit.msc from command prompt.
Go to Computer Configuration
Adminstrative Templates
Windows Components
Terminal Services
Sets rules [...]

Ever forget your Windows password?  How about forgetting your Windows password and can’t log onto your computer?  Well this does suck….especially if reinstalling Windows is your only option.  Here’s something worse….how about forgetting your Windows password, can’t log onto your computer, and don’t have a backup of your data?  Now that really sucks. 

Well I was [...]