Computer Repair Tips for everyday users

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Monday, June 29, 2009

"The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively"

This happened after someone made some changes to their group membership and locked themselves out of everything. You can't be a member of EVERYTHING in the list.

Rule of thumb here is DENY always overrules ALLOW.

He couldn't log in locally anymore, or remotely for that matter.
"The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively"
Turns out this person had been playing and added him to a group that was denied permission to log in locally.

This just may be the case in your event. If so then check the group membership for such a person. Or maybe Group Policies.

Here is a link that may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841188

Or maybe you can try this one.
Start
Run
secpol.msc

Navigate to “Local Policies”, then select “User Rights Assignment”.
Find “Allow logon through Terminal Services”. Check and make sure that “Administrators” and “Remote Desktop Users” are in the list. If they aren’t, click “Add User or Group”, and add the user.
Apply and Test

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Download Windows Virtual PC Beta and Windows XP Mode Beta

Windows Virtual PC provides the capability to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop.

Visit Microsoft for more info: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

This is:
Beta-new and experimental

So make sure you back your junk up.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Runonce page will not go away.

http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx
No matter how you got to this point is irrelevant but what is, is how to get rid of this cracker.

When you open Internet Explorer 7 you either get a blank page or just won't go away no matter how many times you save your settings.
Maybe you see an error that says:
Line 56 Char:2 Error: Element not found Code: 0URL:http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2aspx ARRRRGGGGG....

Thank God for programmers and people smarter than myself to figure this annoyance out.

Click here to "Fix this problem "

If that doesn't work, you will have to do it manually, which is how I had to do this serveral times before with other client machines.

Window XP:
Open Regedit & got to:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]"RunOnceHasShown"=dword:00000001"RunOnceComplete"=dword:00000001
For Windows 7:
Put the following in a reg file and run:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00;Changes Main Web Page to blank[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"=http://about:blank

As usual, we are not responsible for anything you take into your own hands, and yada...yada...yada.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Can't open attachments in Outlook

I Recently had a client that had problems with his Outlook opening attachments but could save them. Turns out his temp file was just overloaded with old temp files.

Visit How-To-Outlook for a great tool to help you and try and show some love by donating a few dollars for a great free program.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/products/outlooktempcleaner.htm


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How to span Remote Desktop across multiple monitors

"Remote Desktop Connection supports high-resolution displays that can be spanned across multiple monitors. The monitors must be the same resolution and aligned side by side. To have the remote computer's desktop span multiple monitors, type Mstsc /span at a command prompt.


NoteThis feature is sometimes called continuous resolution. To toggle in and out of full-screen spanned mode, press CTRL+ALT+BREAK."


http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/f55326fa-e629-423b-abba-b30f76cc61e61033.mspx#EADAC


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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Outlook error, freezing

We could not check the message you are trying to open for viruses because the virus check engine reported an error. To open the unchecked message check OK.

I fixed this by simply disabling all the add-ins and is working fine now.

This was occuring in Outlook 2003.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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