I had a user who could not send images via Snipping Tool in Outlook 2010. Copy and paste worked but not Send To > Email Recipient. Looking at the source of the email Outlook was sending the local path of the image and not the image. There is a setting in the registry that fixes…
Tag: windows 7
Location of Windows wallpaper after being set
I had a user who set their background in Windows but lost the file. They asked if I could recover it. After doing some research I discovered the location of their wallpaper. c:\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows Photo Viewer\Windows Photo Viewer Wallpaper.jpg If you are trying to locate the default Windows wallpapers they are located at c:\%USERNAME%\Windows\Web\Wallpaper
Connecting Windows 7 to a Windows XP share
If you are having trouble connecting a Windows 7 machine to a Windows XP share try enabling Network security: LAN Manager authentication level – Send LM & NTLM responses. Open the run dialog and type gpedit.msc and press enter. Open Computer Configuration Open Windows Settings Open Security Settings Open Local Policies Open Security Options Find Network…
Windows 7 prompting for credentials when accessing SharePoint documents
Sympton You are prompted to enter your credentials, even though the user account that you are using has sufficient permission to access this site. For example, when you open a Microsoft Office file from a Microsoft Office SharePoint site by using 2007 Microsoft Office on a Windows 7-based client computer that has no proxy configured,…
Windows 7 firewall network location
If you have a computer that is connected to a domain and is plugged into the domain network but doesn’t have the domain profile active in the firewall settings of Windows 7 check to make sure you have your domain DNS server set as your primary DNS. I had a client have an external DNS…
Outlook 2010: “0x8004010F: Outlook data file cannot be accessed”
A client of mine was having the error 0x8004010F in Outlook 2010. I repaired the PST and it fixed 30 or so errors but I was still having the issue. I ended up creating a new Outlook profile using the following link… http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2289904 After creating the new profile I could not open or export the…
Outlook 2010 prompting for UAC everytime it’s opened
If Outlook 2010 is prompting for UAC everytime you open it check to make sure you don’t have Run this program in compatibility mode for: or Run this program as an administrator checked.
Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 BSOD on Resume
I have Windows 7 x64 and a 1.5TB hard drive. Whenever my PC was resuming from standby I would get a BSOD. I initially thought it was a driver issue but I came across this KB article. “You receive various Stop error messages in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 when you try…