windows
VMWare ESXi and Windows XP Pro
I have been installing lots of virtual machines on my FREE VMware ESXi server. Most guest OS's install great but I had a problem with Windows XP Pro 32-bit.
When you go through the install Windows XP does not find any hard disks and therefore will not install.
What you need to do is download a file called vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp and then in the virtual machine setup make sure the floppy setup looks at the contents of the zip file. Then press F6 during install and it will read the file and then find the virtual hard disk.
Outlook Auto Complete
So you have a new pc or a new Outlook profile. You login to your mailbox, all your data is there but your auto complete list which Outlook auto generates has gone, what a pain.
This is actually easy to get back and is basically just a file stored in your user profile on your pc.
Browse to :
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Look for a file called Outlook.NK2
The name might be different to that but will still have the same extension of .NK2
Copy or rename the file to it matches your Outlook profile name.
Apple writing to NTFS shares
We were having issues with a few macs in the office, whereby they could connect to Windows 2003 NTFS shares and read the data but upon trying to write to shares it would fail with no error message whatsoever.
The folllowing fixed this with the following performed on the DC
Start -> Administrative Tools -> Domain Controller Policy
Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options -> "Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (always)". It should show "Enabled" by default. Double-click on it and set to "Disabled".
How To Remove Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)
You've probably had Microsoft's latest Internet Explorer 7 browser forced upon your Windows desktop recently.
Since then you may have noticed that some of the software which embeds the browser into the application no longer wants to play ball - or spits scripting errors at you now.
If the application doesn't have an update available, or they are charging big money for the latest update you might have considered just un-installing IE7 and going back to the good old days.