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Due to the slow start of Windows Vista/7, I never really needed to figure out how to repair those installations and just kept on repairing Windows XP installations by booting the XP CD and selecting the repair option. Now that people are really starting to use (and consequently screw up) Windows Vista/7, knowing how to [...]

Couldn’t open a legitimate HTML attachment in Outlook. Turns out there was a corrupted registry entry causing all the problems. http://www.technipages.com/outlook-cant-create-file-error-when-opening-attachment.html

I was trying to figure out how best to render videos in Sony Vegas for YouTube. I used to just use DivX and hope for the best, but I’ve upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit and Sony Vegas Pro 8.1 (the only 64-bit compatible version of Vegas8) doesn’t recognize DivX. I found a partial solution referring [...]

1. Go into Internet Options, through Control Panel or Internet Explorer -> Tools. 2. Go to the Security tab and select “Trusted Sites”. 3. Click on “Sites” 4. Deselect the “Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone” checkbox 5 Add the network computer the executable is located on (i.e. \\server) and click [...]

Run cmd.exe as administrator net user administrator /active:yes http://computerperformance.co.uk/vista/vista_adminstrator_activate.html

Deleting UpperFilter and Lower Filter registry entries usually does the trick. Or replacing the system32/drivers/ files with working drivers. Usually gets corrupted by viruses (they don’t want you installing anti-viruses via optical media I guess). http://sillydog.org/forum/sdt_9200.php

The antivirus virus will try to disable Windows communicating with the outside world by enabling the proxy service. There are two ways to disable it: Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Connection -> LAN Connection or you can get to the same Internet Options from Control Panel. Yeesh. http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-45192-internet-explorer-cannot-display-the-webpage

Locations of the entries in MSConfig The enabled/checked items are populated from the following registry locations: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run -and- HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Windows Values named Run & [...]

For normal websites like MSN.com. It wasn’t Tools -> Internet Options -> Colors; those were all set correctly. Installing Google Chrome appeared to work fine, but then certain websites weren’t behaving correctly (due to their poor programming), so another solution was needed. It turns out that the High Contrast option was checked under Control Panel [...]

On Windows Vista or 7, click Start button and type cmd to search for the command console. Right click it and select “Run as Administrator.” From there run: net user Administrator/ active:yes