Month: November 2007

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Optimize VMware Virtual Machine(s)

VWMware folders can get congested with log files, file fragmentation, and bloated file sizes. To remedy this, there is a utility available through VMware called VMware-mount-5.5.0-18463.exe. This utility will also work with version 6 of VMware (tested!). It offers among other things, several command line tools for handling VMware files. Along with a couple of handy scripts, that I have…

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Intermittent Blue Screens – STOP 0x00008086

Intermittent Blue Screens – STOP 0x00008086 (0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Some Dell Dimension 8400 desktop systems can experience intermittent blue screens with the STOP code shown above. The failures may appear randomly during normal use and are often resolved temporarily by rebooting, only to reoccur later. This behavior has been linked to the storage driver in use on the system….

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Microsoft Outlook will not open .MSG files

Microsoft Outlook will not open .MSG files November 11, 2007 Some systems running Microsoft Outlook XP or Outlook 2003 may suddenly stop opening attached .MSG files, even though these attachments opened correctly in the past. In this condition, double‑clicking the .MSG attachment inside Outlook has no effect or produces an error, while other attachment types continue to work normally. This…

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eHome Infrared Receiver not recognized by Windows XP

The Hewlett Packard TSGI-IR01 is the OEM version of the USB Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver. The device driver is supplied by Microsoft and included with the Windows MCE, XP, and Vista operating systems. It is because of that, HP did not have to supply their own driver. The device driver does work for the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition…

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