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

Aug
18

Setting Up Your Static IPs With AT&T DSL

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Setting up a range of static IP addresses from AT&T DSL can be a daunting task if you are used to Cox or other ISPs that simply supply you with an IP address to punch into the WAN settings of your router.  AT&T* (Bellsouth, Yahoo!,  SBC), on the other hand, will provide you with an …

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Aug
16

AT&T DSL Intermittent Loss of Sync

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Symptoms: A business has AT&T DSL and has intermittent problems with their internet randomly going down.  Usually it is fixed by unplugging/plugging in the modem, but the problem happens again in a week or so.  You call AT&T and there appear to be no problems with the line or profile. Problem (at least the way …

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Aug
12

Microsoft Security Essentials Bug + Fix

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Sent in by MF: I have had this problem happen quite a few times with Microsoft security essentials . Basically after installing MSSE upon reboot the program either doesn’t start up or MSMPENG.EXE just spikes the CPU. The fix is this: In MSSE Settings go to Excluded Files & Locations and Add the following to …

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Jul
16

Crazy DHCP Server Rootkit

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A quick informal story: One of my clients has a bunch of employees that are in and out of the office on different days with their laptops.  A couple of them always seem to get a little bit o’ spyware.  Well, over the past week or so their “server went down” several times randomly and …

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Mar
17

Useful Environment Variables

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Here is a list of some useful environment variables. %USERPROFILE% %WINDIR% or %SYSTEMROOT% (basically interchangable) %PROGRAMFILES% %APPDATA% %TEMP% %USERNAME% %USERDOMAIN% %COMPUTERNAME% %DATE% %TIME% Example: Let’s say Active Directory is getting full of unused user and computer accounts and you want to do an inventory to see who is using what. Add something this to the …

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Mar
17

How To Determine A User’s Profile Path

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Problem: You have a computer with several user accounts and several profiles, but they don’t all match up.  You need a quick way to determine where the currently logged on user’s profile lives. Solution: Open a command prompt and type the following: echo %userprofile% The command will return a single line that is the current …

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Mar
16

Rename A Computer That Is A Domain Member

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Problem: A computer (or several computers) on your domain need to be renamed quickly and reliably without making a mess of Active Directory. Solution: Use the NETDOM utility that comes with the Windows Server Support Tools (SupportTools.msi on the Windows Server media). If it is not already installed, you will want to install the SupportTools.msi …

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Mar
16

How To Migrate A Sub-domain To A Parent Domain In Active Directory

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Problem: You need to restructure Active Directory to accommodate changes to your organization,  changes in IT needs, to correct errors that occurred when planning your Active Directory schema. Solution: Use the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT).  The tool can be found here and documentation can be downloaded here: ADMT Documentation -n

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Mar
15

How To Run Two Instances of QuickBooks at the Same Time

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Problem: A user wants to run two copies of QuickBooks concurrently in order to look at two company files at once. Solution: Install a virtual machine such as Microsoft VirtualPC, VMWare, Sun VirtualBox, etc.  Install Windows and Quickbooks on the new virtual machine. -Nick

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Mar
14

No POP3 Access With Google Apps

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Problem: A user is able to access their Google Apps (hosted Gmail) account through webmail, but NOT through an email client using POP3 or IMAP. Cause: Their user account has an active CAPTCHA that needs to be unlocked. Solution: Unlock the user’s CAPTCHA by visiting: http://mail.google.com/a/your-domain-name.com/UnlockCaptcha (case sensitive) You will be prompted for the username …

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