Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Missing Graphics in Microsoft Word


Missing Graphics in Microsoft Word

There's a few reasons this can occur. I've listed them from most likely to least likely.

You're not in the right view.
For best results, from the menu choose ViewàPrint Layout.

You're not viewing graphics.
Tools Options, View tab. Make sure Drawings is checked. Make sure Picture placeholders is not checked.

Your machine is hurting for resources.

Sometimes, restarting your PC resolves this issue. Other times, we need to clean up our hard drives.

It's a Graphics Card Thing.
This issue doesn't affect every brand and model. To fix, go to Control Panel and lower your hardware acceleration. Results may vary.

Outlook 2003 - Junk E-Mail Options - Deploying a Safe Senders List



Avoiding Performance Problems When Deploying a Safe Senders List
Avoiding Performance Problems When Deploying a Safe Senders List

Sue Mosher
Outlook Tips and Techniques
InstantDoc #45976
Exchange Outlook Administrator

I'm trying to use the policy template for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 to specify a Safe Senders list for the Junk E-mail Filter for my users. I've set up the Group Policy Object (GPO) and added the policy setting. I also created a text file that contains only one line (@hotmail.com), saved the file as safe.txt in the \\domaincontroller\netlogon folder, and used that file path in the Specify path to Safe Senders list policy. But no matter what we try, the users' Safe Senders lists don't change. How can we fix this so that we can deploy a Safe Senders list?

When I tried using a GPO to deploy a Safe Senders list, I had the same result—the users' Safe Senders list didn't change. So I tried deploying the list through the Custom Maintenance Wizard instead, following the procedure described in the Office Resource Kit article "Helping Users Avoid Junk E-Mail Messages in Outlook 2003" (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402621033.aspx). That approach worked fine and added the desired domains and addresses to users' Safe Senders list. . . .

MDM.exe - How to turn off Machine Debug Manager in Office XP


How to turn off Machine Debug Manager in Office XP
The Machine Debug Manager, Mdm.exe, is a program that is installed with the Microsoft Script Editor to provide support for program debugging.

The Machine Debug Manager runs as a service and is loaded when your computer starts. If you do not use your computer for debugging purposes, you can safely turn off the Machine Debug Manager.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Speed up the Disk Cleanup Tool by skipping Compressing Old Files


Speed up the Disk Cleanup Tool by skipping Compressing Old Files
You can speed up the Disk Cleanup Tool by skipping the section that calculates Compressing Old Files.
Article ID : 812248. When you try to compress old files, the Disk Cleanup tool may stop responding and you may receive the following message:
Disk Cleanup is calculating how much space you will be able to free on (C:).
This may take a few minutes to complete.
Scanning: Compress old files

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

How to solve Windows system crashes in minutes

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/041105-windows-crash.html?t5 />
A system crash: If you're lucky, it only ruins your day. More than likely, you're in for several bad days followed by a few stressful weeks or months. After all, systems rarely fail only once. Rather, they keep crashing until you find the cause and fix the problem.

How to Use Dumpchk.exe to Check a Memory Dump File



How to Use Dumpchk.exe to Check a Memory Dump File
This article describes Dumpchk.exe, which is a command-line utility that you can use to verify that a memory dump file has been created correctly. Dumpchk does not require access to symbols.

How to use memory dump to trace bug



How to use memory dump to trace bug - The Code Project - Debug tips
Catching and analyzing a memory dump file is important. This article teaches you how to use hands-on tools to catch and read memory dump files.

The hands-on tools are :-

* Dr. Watson, which is included by almost all the windows systems.
* VC6 and VC7 compiler, we need to recompile the project to generate Map files and COM files for tracing the bug.
* Dumpchk can check dump file, before you are going to send it.
* Windbg and kd can give you detailed information about the spot when exception occurred. Symbol files are always necessary for debugging dump files.

Windows: Debugging Blue Screens Of Death


Debugging Tools and Symbols: Getting Started
Debugging Tools and Symbols: Getting Started

Debugging Tools for Windows is a set of extensible tools for debugging device drivers for the Microsoft® Windows® family of operating systems.