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Archive for the ‘Errors’ Category

April 30th, 2008

Vista Black Screen on Toshiba Laptops

The picture there looks a lot like my wife’s laptop when it decides to lose her screen display completely.
She will be working on her computer, which is running Windows Vista, and randomly the screen image will be lost for no reason. The laptop was a Christmas gift so when it stops working it kind […]

By Jason Bean -- 21 comments

April 14th, 2008

Outlook Very Unstable This Morning

For some reason Outlook continues to crash on me this morning. Not sure what it is that’s causing it, trying to pay attention now to what actions I’m taking each time leading up to the crash.
I also can’t get my Printers folder to open up and display my printers today. Wondering if the two items […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 9th, 2008

SQL Access with Cisco Systems VPN Client Active and Connected

Here’s a quick question for anyone out there with SQL connectivity and VPN access experience.
I’m trying to figure out why I can no longer connect to a SQL database within my local network when I’m connected to a VPN into another network.

As you can see from the above setting in the VPN client, I’ve […]

By Jason Bean -- 15 comments

April 8th, 2008

Microsoft Customer Service - What’s the Deal?

I was speaking to a friend and fellow blogger, Shea, who shared with me a recent experience she had while trying to deal with someone within Microsoft’s customer service and tech support structure.
Here’s what was shared:
It was a pretty basic call - I was at work, installing Office 2003 (yeah, we’re old school) on my […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 28th, 2008

Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Failures Continue

Okay, I’m really getting more and more irritated that this update is not working. I’ve tried everything that’s been mentioned by people in comments. I’ve also researched Microsoft’s Knowledge Base articles to look for solutions as well.
Today, again… I tried to download and install the update manually. First I downloaded the 218MB Office 2007 SP1 […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

March 25th, 2008

Can I Upgrade to Windows Mobile 6?

Okay, I’m getting a little frustrated with my cell phone right now. For some reason when I went to SXSW and changed the time on my phone it’s been screwed up ever since. Now it won’t remember the Daylight Savings Time setting and keeps resetting itself to an hour earlier than it really is […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

March 21st, 2008

Office 2007 SP1 - Error 0×80070643

I keep trying to install this recommended update from Microsoft and continue to get an error. A bit more searching today produced this:
Resolutions
1. Start the ose service
Windows 2003/XP
Run the following command from command prompt to check the state of ose servicesc qc ose
If the service is disabled, then run the commandsc […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

March 19th, 2008

Some Malware Funkiness - What’s an .EFW File Type?

Doing the weekly updates and maintenance of the computers around the office I think I’ve found a computer with a virus or malware.
The problem though is that nothing I’m using to scan both offline and off are finding anything.
When I try to download and install an update for Lavasoft’s AdAware application I’m prompted […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

March 14th, 2008

It’s not always malware: How to fix the top 10 Internet Explorer issues

I just found this article and thought it was a really helpful review of things to look at and think about when something just doesn’t seem right with your Internet Explorer installation.
The article covers tips and tricks for the following problems:

“Page cannot be displayed” errors, Red x instead of pictures, view source not working
Editing […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 25th, 2008

Failed Updates Again - KB932471 and Office 2007 SP1

I’m still getting failed updates for these two items. Anyone got any new suggestions for how to get these successfully installed yet?
I’ve turned off my anti-virus, Windows Live OneCare. I’ve turned everything else off I can think of and I still can’t get these two updates to complete successfully.
Maybe I’m too anal about this […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

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