If you use microsoft outlook for your email, this might be a question you’ll be asking yourself one day. This little file is a great tool that will fix your currupt outlook database file. There are places on the internet that will charge you for something like this. Microsoft was nice enough to include it with every copy of Office 2007. Unfortunately they don’t tell you where it is.
It is located in :
c:\program files\microsoft office\office 12\scanpst.exe
The fastest way to run this in windows xp is to press ’start’ menu and click on ‘run’ then in the dialog box type in:
c:\Program files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Scanpst.exe
If you’re using Vista, press the windows button and type the above line in the white text area of the start menu.
If this does not work for you or you are missing the Inbox Repair tool, you can download it HERE.
What is DEP? DEP is Data Execution Prevention. It can be hardware or software based. What it does is keeps programs from accessing parts of memory that it does not have access to. This is very important nowadays in browsers where the majority of malicious attacks comes from.
The Fast way….
1. run command prompt as adminstrator
2. type in ‘bcdedit /set nx AlwaysOff’
3. to renable, do ‘bcdedit /set nx OptIn’
The Easy way….
1. right click on ‘my computer’ and go to ’settings’
2. go to the ‘advanced Tab’
3. from here go to the ’settings button’
4. click on the 3rd tab
5. from here you can turn it on for all program, or ones that you select.
Conclusion….
It is a good idea to keep it running. There are some cases where a program has already interfered with your system and the need arises for disabling it.
If you have ever gotten rid of a spyware or messed around with a firewall application and lost connection to the internet due to some winsock error, this tool is for you.
It is called winsock xp fix 1.2
BACKGROUND
If you’re wondering why I’m talking about the thing that tell airplanes what speed and direction the wind is blowing, you’re not alone. Winsock is simply a shortened name for windows socket api which tells how windows networks should access the networks services. In the internet age, the specific service we’re interested in is TCP/IP. TCP/IP is the set of communications protocols that the internet need to talk from one computer to another.
When I was still working on windows 98 and early versions of XP, I devised my own quick and dirty way of fixing winsock errors.
SOLUTION
I simply deleted winsock.dll , wsock32.dll, and wsock32n.dll in the /windows directory. Then I typed in ‘regedit’ in the run command box and navigated to hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\winsock2 and deleted everything in that branch.
What this did was made windows restore those files in the next boot-up to their default settings which incidentally fixed any errors that it may have incurred.
Again the site to get the winsock fix program is:
http://majorgeeks.com/download4372.html
A trend that I’ve observed which seems harmless on the surface is really becoming a problem on laptops. Screens that get crushed due to accidental closure with something in the way. May it be a pencil or a stack of sticky notes, a few mini-seconds and you’ve got a broken screen and a costly repair. This seem to occur more and more lately due to laptop design that is ‘hip’ instead of practical. In the old days, YOU control when and how much the screen closes. There was also a latch to keep it closed when it’s shut. These days on most laptops if you close it 2/3 of the way, a spring or magnet helps you the rest of the way. This mechanism won’t know if a pencil or any other object is on your keyboard that could potentially harm your screen. In addition, since the laptops doesn’t have latches anymore, objects can get embedded in between screen and keyboard during transit, just waiting for a little force to turn your bright new screen into a ink blot with pieces of glass when you open it. One jolt on a bumpy road can send your laptop screen to go flying a few inches from the base and slam back down with dire consequences.
Luckily my favorite brand of laptop still does it right, the IBM Thinkpad X series.
For those of you unfortunate to have a latch-less venus flytrap clamshell notebook, all I can recommend is be extra vigilant when you close it and make sure you put it in something that keep both screen side and keyboard side firmly shut during transit.
I had a really hard time finding this gem for a client who recently had their motherboard’s ethernet port fry on them. This created quite a quandary for me. I could have installed a new ethernet card, reroute the modem to USB, or tell them to buy a new machine. I chose the USB route. They had Vista and the disk that came with the modem was very old. I searched up and down only to find sites that wanted me to install some sort of driver helper to detect my driver. This is just another spyware ploy and should be avoided.
Here is the link you’ll need.
http://www.softwaredriverdownload.com/download_ambit_usb_cable_modem_driver.html
I can’t actually point you to the exact download link because it changes from time to time to keep people like me from doing this. Therefore just read down the page and find ‘download ambit USB cable modem driver’. Click there and you should be greeted with a dialog box asking where to put usbdriver2.1.zip. Of course trying this on the machine that can’t get on the internet due to the problem in the first place posed a problem… ;/
