Slow Save Attachments in outlook

If Outlook save attachments is VERY Slow, chances are that you have some mapped network drives that are disconnected.

 

To solve the problem and regain those valuable minutes again, go to My Computer and disconnect the drives.

Fix for Jello Dashboard

http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/security/

 

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Erase a hdd - properly!

Eraser is the best tool to wipe a machine totally!

 

http://eraser.heidi.ie/download.php

 

 

Machine Imaging

Need to image your machines and don't have ghost.

 

Use the ultimate Boot CD, which costs????   €0!

 

Here's a link to it http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

 

SharePoint God Mode

OK in SharePoint if you can’t work out why you don’t have full access.. it’s because you’re not added to the site collection administrators.

 

To do this, from the home screen Site Actionsà Site Settingsà Site Collection administrators

 

Add your user account in there for full access

Wireless Key Viewer Windows 7 64bit

This works on all flavours of windows, even 64 bit and it's free!!

Wireless key viewer

Remove My Bluetooth Places

If you like to keep a clear desktop and have this icon in Windows 7, here's how to get rid of it

http://www.recipester.org/Recipe:Remove_My_Bluetooth_Places_Icon_from_Windows_7_Desktop_40607857

To make life a bit easier, when you find the regkey, search for the word blue, it's quicker than browsing all of the keys one at a time

Blackberry Simulator

useful for screenshots and training

Link

Useful shorcut commands

OK the list below is a work in progress of shortcut commands

control printers - opens printers control pannel
mstsc - Terminal Services Client

Export SharePoint Wiki to PDF

Finally after searching for months and installing various apps with no success, I've managed to export a wiki from sharepoint to a pdf, without changing the SharePoint installation.

The site telling you the steps is here:

https://student.stonybrook.edu/tltworkshop/wiki/Wiki%20Pages/Export%20Wiki.aspx

Wireless Scanning

A good alternative to netstumbler - with 64bit support and additional NIC support is inSSIDer

It can be downloaded for free from http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

This is a very useful product when looking into Wifi issues

Decrypt Cisco VPN Group Password

Do you have a PCF file for a VPN, but you need the password?

If so, go to this web site and it will decode it for you

http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode


Please can you comment if this works for you???

Remove an ad-hoc connection in Windows 7

If you’ve tried using the ad-hoc connection feature of Windows 7, but want to remove the network, how do you do it? Well it’s not exactly where it should be, but after some delving, I managed to find how to do it and here’s how:

 

1.       Open network and sharing centre

2.       Manage Wireless Networks

3.       Find your ad-hoc network, select it with the left mouse button, the right click and remove network

 

As per my earlier posts, using www.connectify.me is a much easier solutions and it work!

Free Conference Call Service

If you are able to limit conference calls to 6 people and book them in advance (which most people should)

 

Then this service which is FREE! Will work. It’s called Talkyou and is available here: http://www.conference-call.me/

 

Turn your Windows 7 ethernet connection into a Wireless Access Point

I travel fairly regularly and often find the hotels have an ethernet connection but no wireless. This is a pain as i like to use my Blackberry. I was all set to use ICS in Windows 7, but despite looking like it should work, it doesn't seem to be compatible with an iPhone.

After a bit of googling, I found some software called connectify, which is free! I downloaded it and had a wireless network up and running in my hotel room within minutes.

Check it out here

Slow Wireless Connection allof a sudden?

This baffled me on a client machine today. The wireless was running slow to access netowrk resourcese. So much so that files were failing to load.

The problem was due to IE settings, tools --> internet options --> advanced

Then reset advanced settings, seemed to cure the problem

How to Setup an entire website for free

OK time to post something a bit more mainstream, but very useful indeed!

I recently had a need to setup a small consultancy website for myself. I hadn't designed or built a site for many years and didn't really have the time to build one (or the skills.)

However I've found a solution that allows for:

free .co.uk domain name
free hosting
free web site design (well you have to enter some content)
free email

I've set this up to link in to my iPhone and have also been able to monitor the traffic, all for free.

The site that I have setup is at www.kamit.co.uk however I'm going to create an additional site with screenshots to allow others to utilise this.

Just watch this space

Excel Strip out a string

In Excel, when trying to remove a string of charactes, I regularly use the fomula below. When manipulating data from AD, this proves to be very useful, so in the example below, all data is removed before a semi colon within a string:

RIGHT(F433,LEN(F433) - FIND(";",F433))

AD Last Logon time

OK, I have taken this script off someone else's site, but that's because it's so useful.

To run the script save it as .vbs somerwhere on a DC adn run this command:

cscript script.vbs > d:\temp\output.txt

The script details are below:

Option Explicit

Dim objRootDSE, adoConnection, adoCommand, strQuery
Dim adoRecordset, strDNSDomain, objShell, lngBiasKey
Dim lngBias, k, strDN, dtmDate, objDate
Dim strBase, strFilter, strAttributes, lngHigh, lngLow

' Obtain local Time Zone bias from machine registry.
' This bias changes with Daylight Savings Time.
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
lngBiasKey = objShell.RegRead("HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\" _
& "TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias")
If (UCase(TypeName(lngBiasKey)) = "LONG") Then
lngBias = lngBiasKey
ElseIf (UCase(TypeName(lngBiasKey)) = "VARIANT()") Then
lngBias = 0
For k = 0 To UBound(lngBiasKey)
lngBias = lngBias + (lngBiasKey(k) * 256^k)
Next
End If
Set objShell = Nothing

' Determine DNS domain from RootDSE object.
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Set objRootDSE = Nothing

' Use ADO to search Active Directory.
Set adoCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set adoConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
adoConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
adoConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
adoCommand.ActiveConnection = adoConnection

' Search entire domain.
strBase = ""

' Filter on all user objects.
strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user))"

' Comma delimited list of attribute values to retrieve.
strAttributes = "distinguishedName,lastLogonTimeStamp"

' Construct the LDAP syntax query.
strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" & strAttributes & ";subtree"

' Run the query.
adoCommand.CommandText = strQuery
adoCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 100
adoCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 60
adoCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False
Set adoRecordset = adoCommand.Execute

' Enumerate resulting recordset.
Do Until adoRecordset.EOF
' Retrieve attribute values for the user.
strDN = adoRecordset.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
' Convert Integer8 value to date/time in current time zone.
On Error Resume Next
Set objDate = adoRecordset.Fields("lastLogonTimeStamp").Value
If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
On Error GoTo 0
dtmDate = #1/1/1601#
Else
On Error GoTo 0
lngHigh = objDate.HighPart
lngLow = objDate.LowPart
If (lngLow < 0) Then
lngHigh = lngHigh + 1
End If
If (lngHigh = 0) And (lngLow = 0) Then
dtmDate = #1/1/1601#
Else
dtmDate = #1/1/1601# + (((lngHigh * (2 ^ 32)) _
+ lngLow)/600000000 - lngBias)/1440
End If
End If
' Display values for the user.
If (dtmDate = #1/1/1601#) Then
Wscript.Echo strDN & ";Never"
Else
Wscript.Echo strDN & ";" & dtmDate
End If
adoRecordset.MoveNext
Loop

' Clean up.
adoRecordset.Close
adoConnection.Close
Set adoConnection = Nothing
Set adoCommand = Nothing
Set adoRecordset = Nothing
Set objDate = Nothing

Excel Strip the first characters from a cell

I always forget this:

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)

In the above example 2 is the number of cells to strip off.

Output AD Information

Server 2003 and 2008 have a tool called CSVDE - this allows for importing and exporting of AD information to and from csv files.

To output files, the syntax below can be used:

csvde -d "OU=spain,OU=Users,OU=MYOffice,DC=My,DC=local" -f x:\output\spain.csv -r objectClass=user

Watch Sport events online

Football, Cricket, Horse Racing.. it's all here and free!

http://www.justin.tv/directory/sports

Resolve Vista Scan and Fix

If you keep getting the scan and fix dialogue with every USB device that you have, then when inserting the device, click continue and do nothing and then do the following:

At the command prompt type the following command.

chkdsk (device drive letter): /f

Accidently moved unfiled notes in OneNote

This has happened to me a few times, but I've found the solution, see here:


Close OneNote and find the UnfiledNotes .one file on your hard drive
with Windows Explorer (the setting in Options gives you the exact path
and filename). Then move it where you want it to be. Reopen OneNote and
adjust the location in Options to point to the file again.

Word Tables with Rounded Corners

How is this done??

Still looking for an answer

Clean up a slow machine

This article is very useful, article

But especially this tool (decrpifier) check it out here: link

Online Keyboard Tutor

Does what it says on the tin, handy for getting quicker on the board

Link