Nick

Author's details

Name: Nick Lauve
Date registered: March 15, 2010
URL: http://techlauve.com
AIM: wheel13
Jabber / Google Talk: nlauve@rent-a-nerd.net

Latest posts

  1. Remote Desktop Printing: First Page OK, Remaining Pages Print In Wrong Font — March 13, 2013
  2. Slow Remote Desktop Performance in Windows 7 or Vista — November 2, 2012
  3. Outlook Error: “This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer” — August 23, 2012
  4. Internet Explorer Displays Blank Page Instead of Windows Update — May 14, 2012
  5. Gmail Does Not Display Images Using Internet Explorer — May 10, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Error: Outlook Data File Has Reached its Maximum Size… — 24 comments
  2. Error: The Add-in ‘ESET Outlook Plugin’ (C:\PROGRA~1\ESET\ESETNO~1\EPLGOU~1.DLL) cannot be loaded and has been disabled by Outlook. If no update is available, please uninstall the Add-in. — 23 comments
  3. Cannot Format Drive As exFAT — 12 comments
  4. Setting Up Your Static IPs With AT&T DSL — 7 comments
  5. How To: Time Sync Across Windows Network — 6 comments

Author's posts listings

Jan
14

Word 2010: “There is insufficient memory or disk space…”

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Symptom: Upon launching Microsoft Word 2010 for the first time after installation you are greeted with the following message: Solution: Reboot the computer.  This is a known issue. -n

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Jan
14

Mounting An ISO Image in Windows Server 2008

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…still can’t be done. MagicISO seems to work pretty well though.  As much as I hate installing stuff like that on a server, there seems to be no way around it without actually burning the image to media. It is completely unacceptable that Microsoft continues to leave this feature out of it’s operating systems.  Mac …

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Jan
07

WordPress Site Hacked

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Apparently techlauve.com was hacked sometime in the last few days.  Upon pulling up the site this morning I was greeted by Arabic music, Arabic text, English text declaring that I had been hacked, and two pictures:  A middle-eastern man pointing a gun at a woman and child, and a picture of a sniper kitten.  Awesome. …

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Dec
11

A Range of local IP Addresses Are Inaccessible from LAN

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Today I ran across an interesting issue.  Everything was normal on the network except that no users could print to ANY of the network printers.  They could not be pinged or accessed in any way.  The network consisted of a single subnet, single server, and single switch.  I moved some of the printers to other …

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Dec
11

Adding a Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller to A Windows Server 2003 Domain

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Adding a server running Windows 2008 to a domain that is running Windows 2000/2003 servers is no big deal until you try to promote the 2008 (or 2008R2) server to a domain controller.  Active Directory must be updated to accommodate changes to the schema in 2008 and 2008R2. The first thing that I would do …

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Sep
23

RTF Files Grow In Size When Sent As Outlook Attachment

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Symptom: An RTF (Rich Text File) that is only a couple of kilobytes in size will suddenly grow to several megabytes when attached to an email in Outlook via Word 2007. Problem: As far as I can tell, the problem is caused by issues between Word 2007 and RTFs that contain headers, footers, images or …

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Aug
20

Outlook 2003 Send/Receive Error 0×8004010f “The operation failed. An object could not be found.”

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Symptoms: On a computer running Outlook 2000/XP/2003 and connected to an Exchange server, the user gets error 0×8004010f  “The operation failed.  An object could not be found.” when performing a send/receive. Problem: Outlook cannot download the Offline Address Book from the Exchange server due to corruption or a database error. Solution: Rebuild the Offline Address …

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Aug
20

Windows Small Business Server POP3 Connector Stops Working

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Symptoms: A user suddenly stops receiving mail and the POP3 Connector drops an eventID: 203 with an error code of 0x800ccc67. Problem: The POP3 connector will not download messages that have a malformed header & it leaves them on the POP server. Once 5 emails with bad headers accumulate on the server, it stops trying …

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Aug
20

Linksys Router Will Not Obtain IP Address From DSL Modem

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Symptoms: Your Linksys (or potentially any other consumer-grade router) will not obtain an IP address via DHCP from your ISP’s DSL gateway/router.  The status of the WAN interface shows 0.0.0.0 as the IP address or you receive an error message while trying to renew the address. Problem: Both devices are likely on the same subnet.  …

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Aug
18

Installing and Configuring Windows Server Update Services 3.0 w/SP2

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Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a free component for Windows Server that allows you to create your own mirror for Windows Update and control every aspect of how updates are distributed on your network. (Download it here.) Prerequisites: Windows Server 2003 or later (or SBS) IIS 6.0 or later .NET Framework 2.0 or later …

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