August 17th, 2010 admin
Don’t you find it annoying when an application pops up a window but you can’t get to it as it’s positioned off-screen?
Here’s a quick tip to move that window back on to your viewable screen area.
- On the Task Bar – right click on the icon for the hidden application
- Click “Move”
- Now press one of the cursor keys – this will grab the window
- Move the mouse around until the window appears – the window will be “stuck” to the mouse pointer
- Click again to drop the window in the new location
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May 5th, 2010 admin
Here’s a problem I’ve hit a few times. Not all keyboards have the old “Scroll Lock” key on them (usually found top right on a keyboard).
Now some programs still use this – for example Excel will allow you to scroll a worksheet if scroll lock is on.
So how do you do this without the key present?
Well Windows comes with an on screen keyboard which “does” have a scroll lock on it.
To bring the keyboard up, click on Start, Run and type “osk” (short for On Screen Keyboard).
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December 10th, 2009 admin
This PC was showing various errors when loading applications such as Outlook, Word etc.
An example error was “not enough quota for this operation”.
In the event log – the following could be found:
Failed to determine if the store is in the crawl scope (error=0x8001010d).
There were also several errors relating to Windows Search which lead me to the following solution which involves rebuilding the WDS index:
Stop Indexing service “cmd: net stop wsearch” and check in TaskManager’s process list that SearchIndexer.exe was really stopped.
Delete %SystemDrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows (Vista) or %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows (XP) folder with all its files and subfolders.
Delete the following registry keys:
- “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Applications\windows”
- “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\CatalogName\windows”
- “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Databases\windows”
- “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gather\windows”
- “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gathering manager\Applications\windows”
- “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\UsnNotifier\windows”
You’ll have to change reg key ownership and change permission first.
In registry in key “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search” switch “SetupCompletedSuccessfully” subkey to “0″ – you’ll have to change reg key ownership and change permission first.
Start Indexing service back “cmd: net start wsearch”
Wait until “SetupCompletedSuccessfully” subkey switch back to 1. If it’s still “0″ after 5 minutes, it means the setup is failed again.
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