I’ve always thought the sound volume on my Acer TravelMate 5530G has been very low even if I turned everything up to 100%. It has been ok and only a little bit annoying, but a few days ago we moved to another house for a month (we’re currently travelling in Thailand) with no TV so… Continue reading Low Volume on my Realtek Acer Laptop
Category: Windows Vista
Lotus Notes data directory on Windows Vista
Just installed and old CD with Lotus Notes 7.02 on my Windows Vista laptop.Could not find notes.ini, names.nsf in the file system, apparently it’s no longer stored in C:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data. After some searching I found it here: C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\lotus\notes\data>
Looking for Credential Tiles hangs Remote Desktop
On my new Acer TravelMate 5530G I run Windows Vista Home Premium. I use Windows Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) to connect to my server which has been working just fine. But this weekend after setting up a new Windows 2008 server and trying to connect to it, RDC shows a dialog “Looking for Credential Tiles”.… Continue reading Looking for Credential Tiles hangs Remote Desktop
Copy Outlook Signatures
I just got a new laptop running Vista so I wanted to backup and transfer all my Outlook signatures from my old XP laptop. Both are running Outlook 2007. Outlook 2007 Signature file locations in Windows Vista and XP: Vista: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures (usually C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures) XP: %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures(C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures) From that directory, just copy everything… Continue reading Copy Outlook Signatures
Things I can and cannot get to work in Vista and Office 2007
I just upgraded my laptop running XP to Office 2007 and I’ve also started using my new desktop computer running Vista and Office 2007. These are a few things that have bugged me and how I made them work (or not): 1) I could no longer run my macros in Outlook 2007. Whenever I went… Continue reading Things I can and cannot get to work in Vista and Office 2007
Regedit – Cannot create value: Error writing to the registry.
I guess this is your typical newbie mistake on Windows Vista, but even so I had a hard time finding the solution on Google so I thought I’d post about it. When I was trying to add a key in the Registry Editor, regedit.exe, I got an error message saying “Cannot create value: Error writing… Continue reading Regedit – Cannot create value: Error writing to the registry.