Fix of the Week

CA E-Trust Antivirus r8.1 with Windows 7

Fix of the Week — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:02:30 +0100

CA E-Trust Antivirus r8.1 installs and runs fine on Windows 7 but the downloading of signatures bombs out half way ...

IBM Infoprint 1622 Laser printer

Fix of the Week — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:47:58 +0100

Felt I had to review this product after the nightmares I’ve had with it.

First of all the product was ...

Got a fix?

Fix of the Week — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:17:12 +0100

Email your fix and any links to fix@fixoftheweek.com

How to install Windows 7 is you have no DVD drive

Ian — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:06:42 +0100

I have installed Windows 7 on lots of machines now and most of them (like my Samsung netbook) don’t have DVD drive. So they way I do it is I have a 4GB USB memory stick and

SMS will not open the query tree in Windows 7 (and Vista)

Ian — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:26:10 +0100

When installed SMS admin console on Windows 7 it would not expand the Query tree so I couldn't remote control any machine (The same problem can affect Windows Vista) It turns out the problem is the Windows Firewall blocks the inbound WMI connections, so you could either turn off the firewall or create rules that allow the connection

Repllog.exe error or 0x8503001c Windows Mobile Sync Problems

Ian — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:42:12 +0100

If you get "a problem has occurred with repllog.exe". when trying to sync a Windows Mobile 6.1 ...

PsTools by Mark Russinovich

Fix of the Week — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:05:18 +0100

Nobody should be without these in a WAN environment. Starting/Stopping services, remote command prompt, rebooting, killing processes etc..... this does ...

Windows Media Center Recordings Fail

Ian — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:28:21 +0100

Occasionally Windows Media Center can corrupt its recording schedule files which can lead to Media Center not recording TV shows ...

Symantec Ghost doesnt see SATA Drive

Fix of the Week — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:24:34 +0100

If you run Symantec Ghost and are attemping to image to or from your SATA HDD you may find that your ...

Using your own router with Sky Broadband

Fix of the Week — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:01:46 +0100

If you want to use your own router with Sky Broadband then click the following link to obtain your Sky ...

Xbox 360 Media Center Extender in Windows XP Media Center SP3 error

Ian — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:38:14 +0100

Error message when you try and connect an Xbox 360 extender up to Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with Service Pack 3: "There is a problem with the installation of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005"

This is due to a registry setting missing and can be fixed by downloading a fix from Microsoft 895961 which corrects the error "The Windows Media Center Extender service cannot create the sub-desktop session on a Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005-based computer"

Microsoft Word 2003/2007 hanging when opening a shared document

Fix of the Week — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:55:52 +0100

If you have a shared word document on a server that take ages to open then the reason may be a ...

Saving Command Line info in a text file

Fix of the Week — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:31:20 +0100

Reading command line info has never been easy. To save and open in a text file do the following-

The example ...

Windows Server NETLOGON Event ID 5719

Fix of the Week — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:11:36 +0100

This computer was not able to set up a secure session with a domain controller in domain xxxx due to the ...

Cannot open Outlook attachments

Fix of the Week — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:34:20 +0100

If you cant open Outlook attachments and get a message like -

Can't create file : Document.xxx. Right-click the folder ...

Registry change for Microsoft CRM Outlook clients

Fix of the Week — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:18:05 +0100

The MS CRM 3.0 client for Outlook. Domain login box keeps coming up??

If the login box keeps popping up when accessing ...

Virgin Wireless Broadband not working?

Fix of the Week — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:00:13 +0100

Is your wireless router not working with your Virgin Broadband Modem?

Virgin denies this, but if you are trying to ...