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Thursday, 3 July 2014

Office 2010 icons are blank

ISSUE:

Some, or all Office icons appear blank


SOLUTION:

- Kill Explorer.exe
Delete C:\Users\userprof\appdata\local\IconCache.db
- Start Explorer.exe

or run the following from CMD (Administrator)

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
CD /d %userprofile%\Appdata\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a

then start explorer.exe via task manager

Saturday, 5 April 2014

SFC SCANNOW cannot repair some files

ISSUE:

When running the command sfc /scannow you get the following result:
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some
of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For
example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. Note that logging is currently not
supported in offline servicing scenarios.


SOLUTION:

Run the following command:
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Real Player downloader crashes

ISSUE:

Real Player video download plugin crashes when trying to download a video from a site (youtube for example)


SOLUTION:

Run

C:\Program Files\RealNetworks\RealDownloader\recordingmanager.exe

and update the save location in preferences.


tags: windows 8.1, real player, real downloader, internet explorer, faulting module, application crash, recordingmanager, kernelbase.dll

Friday, 27 December 2013

Windows - Διπλός τόνος (typing, keyboard, Ελληνικά, Greek, πληκτρολόγιο)

ISSUE:

Διπλός τόνος κατά την πληκτρολόγιση ελληνικών χαρακτήρων


SOLUTION:

1. Scan PC with Malwarebytes Anti-malware

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

DVD drives not showing up (Windows 8.1)

ISSUE:

DVD drives not showing up. Error occurred in Windows 8.1

Error in device manager: Drivers could not be loaded or corrupter - Error 39


SOLUTION:

1. Find the Class Guid of the DVD drive(s)

2. In registry navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM>Current Control Set>Control>Class

Find the device(s)'s Class ID and delete the Upper and Lower values

3. Restart

Sunday, 24 November 2013

DVR machines port forwarding

ISSUE:

I had an issue when trying to forward the IPs of three DVR machines.


SOLUTION:

I solved this issue by assigning a different TCP port to each machine.

Outlook 2007 does not open

ISSUE:

Outlook 2007 fails to open.


SOLUTION:

Run this command: Outlook.exe /resetnavpane