Month: October 2007

eTrust Antivirus Enable Disabled Features

eTrust Antivirus features are grayed out and access is needed. From the images below follow a single registry key change and all access becomes available. No reboot necessary. Using regedit, the format is: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\eTrustAntivirus\CurrentVersion\InternalSettings] “RPCThreadContext”=dword:00000000 Using AutoIT, the format is: ;Enable eTrust Antivirus (Version: 7.1.501) Realtime features RegWrite (“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\eTrustAntivirus\CurrentVersion\InternalSettings”, “RPCThreadContext”, “REG_DWORD”, “0”)

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Restoring Automatic Updates When Settings Are Grayed Out

One issue that occasionally appears in Windows is when the Automatic Updates settings are completely grayed out. Instead of being able to choose how updates are handled, every option is disabled. In most cases, this is not a bug. It is the result of policy-based registry settings being applied to the system. These settings may have come from: Local Group…

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Outlook 2003/2002 Add-in: Notes Connector WILL NOT CONNECT!

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector for IBM Lotus Domino enables you to use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2002 to access your e-mail messages, calendar, address book, and To Do (task) items on an IBM Lotus Domino Release 5.x or Release 6.x server. It is available from Microsoft. However, once installed, Outlook Connector will NOT connect to Notes. The…

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EPSON Print CD missing PICSDK.DLL

Problem EPSON Print CD installs successfully but fails to launch with the error: PICSDK.DLL not found. Cause PICSDK.DLL is not included in the Print CD installer. It belongs to the EasyPrintModule package, located separately on the Epson installation disc at: E:\Common\EasyPrintModule Solution Rather than installing the full EasyPrintModule application, the DLL can be extracted directly from the installer package using…

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