Windows

Office 2010 – Setup – Configure – Reinstall

2017/09/30 Udar Gromov 0

First to Note Office 2010 is a true heavy weight. It more than doubles the size of your registry on a fresh Win7 or Win XP instances. Full Office version requires an activation right away, if you install it on top of your Evaluation copy. You still can open applications without […]

How to Run Malicious Software Removal Tool?

2017/09/28 Udar Gromov 0

MRT Just 3 letters you need to know – MRT That is right, just type MRT.exe in you Start – Run box. Why they hide it so deep? Why there is no easy answer anywhere on the Internet? The program is located in %WinDir%\System32\MRT.exe Once again, to run Malicious Software […]

Transfer Rosetta Stone user progress from PC to PC

2017/09/26 Udar Gromov 0

To transfer your progress data from one PC to the next you need to copy one file: tracking.db3 On Windows XP this file is located in: “%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Rosetta Stone\Language Training\” OR “%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Rosetta Stone\” (on version 3) On Windows 7 this file is located in: “%ProgramData%\Rosetta StoneLanguage Training\” “%ProgramData%\Rosetta […]

All Background Colors Are Gone from All Sites
Solved with One Click

2017/09/25 Udar Gromov 0

Just an hour ago your were a happy browser. Everything worked great. All of a sudden, all the background colors are gone from all web pages on all sites. Pages are now looking bald and stripped. What just happened? If you are on Windows 7, I know the answer. […]

Windows Photo Viewer: Can’t Rotate Images on a Network Drive – Solved!

2017/09/22 Udar Gromov 1

It is the the LITTLE problems that annoys the most! I love Windows, but why Windows is so awkward in same strange and unexpected ways? This article is about one of such problems – Image viewing and rotation. Why it is so hard? Do not even think to joke here. There […]

Mapping remote WebDAV network drive for free (without NetDrive)

2017/09/15 Hi-Grage 0

If you have a powerful NAS server with massive redundancy (RAID), you wish you can access all files and directories from anywhere on the planet. Recently I switched from Synchronizing Offline file to a real-time access my drive remotely using WebDAV. This twist is that I am using Synology WebDAV […]

Fix “Cannot generate SSPI context” while connecting to SQL Server

2017/09/14 Udar Gromov 0

Here is a problem resolved here – you can connect to MS SQL Server 2012 from the office, but when your try to connect from home over remote (in this case AVENTAIL) connection you would get an error message: “Cannot generate SSPI context“. Once again, from the office you can […]

Error 2155348315 in Windows 7 Backup – Resolved

2017/09/10 Udar Gromov 1

I started getting this error 2155348315 in Windows 7 Backup, when I switched from wired to a Wi-Fi connection on my desktop PC. Here is what happened…

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IE opens blank new tabs instead of your home page

2017/09/04 Udar Gromov 0

You have masterfully designed custom home page for your Internet Explorer (IE). All of a sudden, only first tab displays your home page. All other new tabs in IE open as a blank page. What happened? Something is changing IE settings back to “A blank page” ? This particular fix […]

Cannot open database … requested by the login. The login failed.

2017/08/21 Udar Gromov 2

Cannot open database “Your_DB” requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE’.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open database “Your_DB” requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE’.

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* Use Wildcards with REG DELETE (Almost) *

2017/08/19 Udar Gromov 0

I loved writing this article. It tought me so much about power of good old batch commands. Amazing! Say, I am trying to resolve a problem in a registry. To isolate the problem, I need to delete hundreds of branches from an externally loaded Registry hive QQ\Classes from a parallel […]

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