Monday, March 2, 2015

Add pdf content to Windows 7 search index

Since Adobe X does not install the iPDF-Filter anymore, i installed the free PDFlib TET PDF IFilter
http://www.pdflib.com/de/download/tet-pdf-ifilter/
on my Windows 7 64 bit machine to let the Windows search also index the content of PDF files and to find them using the Windows Desktop search.
After installation the index options look like this:

After rebuilding the index, also my pdfs appeared in the search results.
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Outlook 2007 SP1 will not work with a new user Reading pane is blank and outlook locks up

Problem:
Outlook 2007 SP1 will not work with a new user. Reading pane is blank and outlook locks up.

Solution:
When you open Outlook for a new user, it hides the dialog box to enter your initials (this only affects new users), so just open up Word, or Excel, and enter in the persons initials in that dialog box that you get there. Now Outlook should work. If the reading pane will still not display, just close Outlook (youll probably have to kill the process in task manager) and re-open.
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Outlook categories colors are lost after data restore from backup or Outlook com How to backup and restore category colors

My Outlook 2013 E-Mail Profile went corrupt and i had to create a new one to be able to start Outlook again. Calendar, Tasks and Contacts were restored from Outlook.com, but I lost all the colors of my categories.

How-I-fixed-it:
Be sure to have a backup of a .pst-file that has the category colors inside.

I copied the These instructions from:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/611

Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013

Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 store the Master Category list in the mailbox or pst-file itself so if you backup your pst-file, your Categories will be backed up as well.
This of course doesn’t allow you to easily share your Categories or use it in another mail profile. To allow for this you can use the following method;
Backup Categories
  1. Create an new Note item (keyboard shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+N).
  2. Write “Categories” in it to give it a name.
  3. Close the Note item.
  4. Switch to your Notes folder (keyboard shortcut: CTRL+5).
  5. Right click on it and choose Categorize-> All Categories…
  6. Select all the Categories which you want to backup.
  7. Save the Note outside of Outlook as an msg-file Outlook via File-> Save as… or by dragging it out of Outlook and into an Explorer folder or onto your Desktop. By default it will be called Categories.msg
Restore Categories
  1. Open your Notes folder (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+5).
  2. Drag & drop the Categories.msg file from Explorer into the Notes folder.
  3. Switch back to the Mail Navigation (keyboard shortcut: CTRL+1).
  4. Right click on the top of your mailbox folder set and choose Properties.
  5. Click the button “Upgrade to Color Categories…”.
    Outlook will scan your mailbox for items with Categories which aren’t in the Master Category List yet and will add them.
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Office Home and Business 2010 Access keeps prompting for product key every startup Problem with Access 2007 runtime engine msain dll corrupt or missing

I have Office 2010 Home and Business an my Computer and things for OK for a long time. My ERP-Software which uses Access 2007 runtime engine was up and running for Ages.After installing a new time management software which (Zeitplan), which also seems to be based on Access runtime, problems started.

Starting my ERP-Software failed. An error prompt said "missing or currput msain.dll". Next time it suggested to start Access in Safe Mode, but that did not fix the Problem. The msain.dll was were i expected it to be (OfficeDir1031). Downloaded the dll from the Internet and replaced the existing one. No changes.
Re-Installed my ERP-Software. No changes.

Did a repair on Office 2010.
No my ERP-Software started to start, but then the Access 2010 splash Screen was shown and it prompted me to enter my Office 2010 Product Key. Entered the key, it was shown as valid, Office activated itself OK. But after a few seconds, i was prompted for the product key again. And again.  And so on.... (Word and Excel did not prompt on Startup. Thei Help box said, theyre activated).

I then had a look on the Internet and found out, that Office 2010 Home and Business Edition does not include Access.

How-i-fixed-it:
I found the right hints here (in German): http://www.dims.de/blog/?p=530

I removed Access from the Office 2010 Installation (Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs->Office 2010->Change). I also uninstalled the Access 2007 runtime.

I then re-installed the ERP-Software (which also installed the Access 2007 runtime again).

After that, the ERP-Software was running fine (and also the time Management software). No more product key prompts.

Some other threads about never-ending-product-key-prompt:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-office_install/after-every-pc-reboot-office-2010-keeps-asking-for/87e2cac0-d8cb-432b-a3d9-8721edf12487?page=1

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-office_install/why-do-i-need-to-enter-product-key-each-time-for/37ef2acf-f6a9-4122-9f1a-f31c815aabf1

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Panasonic FP D250 Copier and DD Browser

We have a Panasonic FP-D250 copier and it can scan documents.
There are two options to get the scanned file.
One is by writing it to the attached Zip drive.
The other option is using the DD Browser to pull the files off the hard drive.
I have found that in order to install the DD Browser on Windows XP that you have to install some imaging software that was only found on Win98.
If you need any of this software contact me and Ill email it to you.

Im having an odd problem today. My PC and that of another user is now giving us errors when we try to contact the main unit.
ERROR:HDP_ONLINE_READ_DOCIDX
I cannot find reference to this anywhere.
I have another user who can still use DD Browser just fine. Very odd.

Here is all the software and drivers that I have:
http://www.skillsinc.com/files/Panasonic-FP-D250.zip
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Dell Latitude E5530 Unknown Driver Device Solution

The Dell latitude E5530 is a great 15.6" laptop.
If you wipe the OS and reinstall with lets say; Windows 7 Enterprise; then you will be missing a few drivers.
There was one device that just kept showing up as "Unknown Device" in Device Manager and turns out that it was the Hard Drive free fall sensor.  If you go to support.dell.com you will find that under the driver downloads and then the chipset section.

The one I used was:
Free Fall Data Protection
v4.10.0036 (A05) January 02, 2013
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How to Burn CD or DVD Room Without Nero

If you are a Windows XP user who has switched to windows 7. And when you want to make a cd and install nero burning first. However, we can really do without nero burning disk in Windows 7. Since Windows 7 has updated some software and add a built-in program. That cd burning application. And this time I will post how to do burn a cd using the default Windows 7 program.
How to burn the data to cd or dvd

1. The first - you have to prepare all the data what will be your backup.

2. then you enter empty cd / dvd dvd-room it.

3. after that copy paste your data that you want to backup to drive cd / dvd room

4. At Last, you just right-click cd / dvd and select burn to disc, see example image


















And wait until finish.

Note : Always check size of your cd/dvd room
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