So I had a client that couldn’t open email hyperlinks. Whenever you clicked on a email link in Outlook, it would popup a dialogue box and ask what program you wanted to open it with.
The fix… In this case, the registry permissions on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto were messed up. I did a right click, and properties and gave everyone full control on the key, and also made the administrators group the owner. I did that on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell & HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open as well.
Here is a registry file you can use to recreate the entries if you need to.
Happy emailing!
–Luke
Had this message on a Windows XP computer this week.
Here’s the fix:
I actually hooked the drive up to a working computer via my USB drive adapter. I then put the XP Home disk into my CD drive. I copied the file NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from the i386 directory on the CD to the root of the offending hard drive. That fixed it. Obviously when you do the file copy, it will ask you if you want to overwrite the existing files. I actually renamed the old ones to “NTLDR.OLD” and “NTDETECT.COM.OLD” before I did the copy so that I would have a backup… just in case.
In order to view the files NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM on the hard drive, you will have to first enable the options to “Show System Files” under Control Panel->Folder Options->View.
All the best - and happy Thanksgiving!
Had a situation today where only the administrator could connect to Exchange 2003 via IMAP. I had to make the pre Windows 2000 logon name match the Exchange account name.
Well…. Since that isn’t a good way to start off the weekend, let me tell you how to fix it!
This will work depending on what exactly the root issue is.
1) Boot to the Windows Recovery Console (boot from the CD and hit “R” for repair)
2) type the command bootcfg /rebuild
3) Confirm that it detects your Operating System
4) Type “XP” or something for a OS description
5) Type “/fastdetect” (without quotes) for the startup parameters.
6) Type “Exit” and reboot the computer.
Cross your fingers and hope it works!
–Luke
Did you wake up this morning to find out that your 120GB hard drive was full? Take a peek in the folder where Internet Explorer resides, and check for a rogue logfile…. Delete it from C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe.exp.log and you should be all set.
Thanks to Mr. Virtual PC Guy, the answer is here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2006/06/29/648105.aspx
- Go into the ‘Services‘ section (under Admin tools, under Control Panel)
- Change the ‘Windows Audio service’ from ‘Disabled‘ to ‘Automatic‘ - and start it
- Go to the ‘Terminal Services Configuration‘ section (under Admin tools, under Control Panel)
- Double click on ‘RDP-TCP‘
- Select the ‘Client Settings‘ tab
- Clear the ‘Audio Mapping‘ check box
Can’t rename files in Vista? The problem seems to have been caused by a hotfix. You can read more details here.
The fix is to download this registry file and add it to your registry: reg fix
You may want to backup your registry before installation, just in case! 
Luke
Not sure why, but for some reason my smart host in Exchange 2007 can’t resolve DNS names. If I drop to the command prompt, I can resolve and ping fine, but if I use the FQDN in the smart host setup, I get 451 errors.
Smart Host Setup
So, the solution is to just use the IP address that the record resolves to. Put that in the IP address box of the smart host setup screen. That should do the trick!
I believe this has something to do with IPv6, but I didn’t have time to look into it very in-depth…
LP
