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Fix “the installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and you can access it”

January 8th, 2010 No comments

Fix word 2007 startup issues

March 23rd, 2009 No comments

If you are having issue with word when double clicking a document or launching an attachment , it could be a corrupt reg key.
open registry editor and rename the following value :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\version number\Word\Data
where version number is your office version ( 2007 = 12 ) .

you can also do this via command line ( as administrator )

reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data /f

this article has some more good info.

Vista Openvpn & Routing

September 8th, 2008 No comments

If you have more then one subnet behind your vpn you need to add the following to your vpn.conf :

route-method exe

and make sure you run openvpn as an administrator

Use DOS FOR loop to modify premissions on files/folders

July 18th, 2008 No comments

This assumes your usernames and homdirs are the same for example : user: alfred homedir : alfred

for /F %u in ('DIR /B A*.*') do v:\tools\xcacls.exe %u /T /E /C /G %u:RCWD /y

Tweak Firefox memory consumption

July 3rd, 2008 No comments

Type About:config in the Address bar.
right click and Add boolean value : config.trim_on_minimize
Set to true

More info here : http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak
And originally read here : http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3563503,00.html