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That error appears to be a Windows Update error, which makes sense since you encounter it when doing a check for upgrade - which uses Windows Update.
Can you successfully check for updates using Windows Update in Windows?
I found the following information on how to deal with this error in Windows update:

Error number: 0x80248014 (Originally was 0x8024001D) when applying Windows Updates
Suggestion 1: Rename temporary folder SoftwareDistribution

1. Click Start, Run, type: cmd and press Enter. Please run the following command in the opened window.

net stop WuAuServ

2. Click Start, Run, type: %windir% and press Enter.
3. In the opened folder, rename the folder SoftwareDistribution to SDold.
4. Click Start, Run, type: cmd and press Enter. Please run the following command in the opened window.

net start WuAuServ

Please go to the Windows Update site to test this issue. If that works then it was a corrupted Windows Update file and we needed to remove the folder in which it resides.

Installing Q2004R2 on your shiny new Vista box initially looks bad, a dialog says that C:\Program Files\Quicken\qwapp.dll and C:\Program Files\Quicken\qwinver.dll cannot be registered (or something similar).

Then when you try to start Quicken after install (or after upgrading to Vista) you get:

The application has failed to start because MFC70.dll was not found.
Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

:-(

Anyway, not being one the shirk a challenge and more importantly expecting to upgrade to Vista one day but wanting to carry on using Quicken I've spent some time this afternoon trying to get it going.

To sumarise to the minimun number of steps (and cut out the pain and experimentation I've been through) here we go:

1. Make sure you are an Administrator of the Vista PC. If you only have one account you probably are, if you need to check: Start | Control Panel | User Accounts | Add or remove User Accounts.

2. Goto www.dlldump.com and download the 3 dlls MFC70.dll, msvcr70.dll and msvcp70.dll. Ideally download them straight to where Quicken is installed (C:\Program Files\Quicken) but Vista would not let me do that, I had to download them to my user Documents folder first then copy them from there to the Quicken install dir.
http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/M/MFC70.DLL/7.00.9466.0/download.html
http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/M/msvcr70.dll/7.00.9466.08/download.html
http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new.php/dllfiles/M/msvcp70.dll/7.00.9466.08/download.html

3. Open a DOS box (Start | All Programs | Accessories | Command Prompt).

4. At the DOS prompt type (you'll need to change the dll location if Quicken is no installed in C:\Program Files\Quicken):
regsvr32 /s "C:\Program Files\Quicken\qwapp.dll"
regsvr32 /s "C:\Program Files\Quicken\qwinver.dll"

That's it - Quicken will now run and you can load your file (BACK IT UP SEVERAL TIMES AND PUT THE BACKUPS SOMEWHERE SAFE FIRST).

originally from here

when trying to login to prestashop you receive the following error message:

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501 Method Not Implemented

GET to /admin not supported.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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empty cache and cookies (it is the cookies that cause the error)

A list of Apache Server Environmental Variables from zytrax
All the variables are described for easy reading.

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This is a current list of Apache 2.2 Server Environmental Variables

HTTP headers:	connection & request:
HTTP_USER_AGENT HTTP_REFERER HTTP_COOKIE HTTP_FORWARDED HTTP_HOST HTTP_PROXY_CONNECTION HTTP_ACCEPT	REMOTE_ADDR REMOTE_HOST REMOTE_PORT REMOTE_USER REMOTE_IDENT REQUEST_METHOD SCRIPT_FILENAME PATH_INFO QUERY_STRING AUTH_TYPE
server internals:	date and time:	specials:
DOCUMENT_ROOT SERVER_ADMIN SERVER_NAME SERVER_ADDR SERVER_PORT SERVER_PROTOCOL SERVER_SOFTWARE	TIME_YEAR TIME_MON TIME_DAY TIME_HOUR TIME_MIN TIME_SEC TIME_WDAY TIME	API_VERSION THE_REQUEST REQUEST_URI REQUEST_FILENAME IS_SUBREQ HTTPS

 

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This is an old list of Apache Server Environmental Variables

HEADERS	WHAT VARIBLES IT WILL SHOW
GET, HEAD, PUT POST	are the base request commands of the HTTP protocol. This first line would suffice to request the wanted information.
REQUEST_METHOD :	GET
SERVER_PROTOCOL:	will show which version of HTTP you are using, usually HTTP1.0 or HTTP1.1
HTTP_XROXY_CONNECTION :	usually Keep-Alive
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET:	iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
HTTP_REFERER_FROM:	shows the page you came from, where you came from before or the last page you visited before the current one, or if you came from a link. Typed URLs and bookmarks usually result in this variable being left blank. http:\/\/(www\.)?$mydomain\//);
HTTP_USER_AGENT :	shows which browser type you are using, your browser version and also the O/S you use
HTTP_HOST:	the remote server's name you are accesing
SERVER_PORT:	shows the web server's listening port. usually 80, 8080, 3128 (if you are on HTTP)
SERVER_SOFTWARE:	the remote server's O/S (Apache/1.2.4 for example)
SCRIPT_NAME:	what kind of scripts the remote server is running if any (/cgi-bin/show-http-headers)
REMOTE_ADDRESS : or REMOTE_HOST :	will show your IP number, or if you are usign a proxy, it's IP number
HTTP_REMOTE_HOST :	will show your host name and address -country, ets
IDENT-Lookup: Username:	will show yor PC's name, your operating system: your charset:
REMOTE_PORT:	shows the port the remote server uses
SERVER_NAME:	the DNS name of the server you are accessing
SERVER_ADMIN:	usually the email address of the webmaster
HTTP_COOKIE:	If your browser finds a cookie in his cookie file matching the domain of this server it will send it along with every request. This server also tries to set up a cookie in your browser. If this is successfully done, you can see this cookie in your request when RELOADing this page.
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FROM: or HTTP_FORWARDED:	if you use a proxy, it will show here shows where you've been routed from. proxy can forward real ip here, In order to remain anonymous the you DO NOT want your real IP showing, only the proxy's.(trully anon proxies will NOT show HTTP_FORWARDED or HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR variables,
HTTP_FORWARDED :	shows the path you use in connecting to a web server this line shows exactly where you're coming from. reveals proxy used VIA : reveals use of proxy
HTTP_VIA :	if you are usign a proxy, the name will show up here
HTTP_ACCEPT:	will show what kind of images your browser will accept such as: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */* These are the MIME-types accepted by your browser, sometimes with a quality factorappended.
CLIENT_IP :	your IP can be revealed by proxy
HTTP_FROM :	sometimes IP proxied from is revealed here, so make sure you look at that option when evaluating how secure a proxy is!
ACCEPT-LANGUAGE: or HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE:	Here your browser may indicate which languages it prefers. ISO-country-codes are used to accomplish this. So "en" is english, "de" is german, "ru" is russian, etc
SCRIPT_NAME:	if the server wil run any scripts like cgi, ets.

Usually I develope my projects locally on my pc. Needless to say that you sometimes have to send an email from your script to external mail to check if everything is fine. So you need to configure your system in a way that your local apache webserver is able to send mail to external addresses.
I always use XAMPP for Windows because it contains everything you need for developing PHP applications as well as all the stuff for sending mails: fake sendmail und Mercury Mail Transport System. I reference to XAMPP 1.6.5 (for Windows) and Mercury 4.5 here. Mercury is already pre-configured in XAMPP - all settings that I don't explicitly address stay as they are

I'm writing this because I'm not a mail professional and read a lot of tutorials and none of them really worked. So I extracted what I needed and put it all together. An important assumption for this tutorial is that you have your own SMTP server, for example the one that your webspace hoster provides.

So let's get started:

1. start Mercury (using the XAMPP Controlpanel) and then open the admin panel.
2. first of all we disable the HTTP server of Mercury so that it doesn't conflict with the apache:
   1. "Configuration" -> "Protocol modules"
   2. disable the check "MercuryB HTTP web server"
   3. I also disabled "Mercury IMAP4rev1 server" because I won't need that one
   4. leave the window opened, we'll need it immediatly
3. to be able to send external mail we have to disable "MercuryE SMTP end-to-end delivery client" in the same dialog and enable "MercuryC SMTP relaying client". Click "OK" and restart Mercury!
4. now let's configure Mercury in general:
   1. "Configuration" -> "Mercury core module", tab "General"
   2. we want to send from localhost, therefore we check if "localhost" is the value of "internet name for this system" and adjust that if not
   3. all other settings stay the same as they are already configured, but we'll have a look to the checkboxes beneath:
   4. disable all but "Send copies of all errors to postmaster"
   5. check under the tab "Local domains" if the entry "localhost (local host or server) localhost (internet name)" is there, if not, add it
   6. click "OK" and leave the dialog
5. next we focus on the MercuryS SMTP Server for outgoing emails:
   1. "Configuration" -> "MercuryS SMTP Server"
   2. choose the tab "General" and add a wonderful name for your SMTP server under "Announce myself as", simply fill in any name, I've chosen "CS SMTP".
   3. under "Listen on TCP/IP port" fill in "25", that's the SMTP port
   4. add "127.0.0.1" to "IP interface to use", that's the local IP of your pc. With the IP of the pc within the network (192.168.0.X) it doesn't work (at least for me)
   5. now we limit the access to the server so that only our local machine can access it:
      1. under "Connection Control" click on "Add restriction" and add the IP range from "127.0.0.1" till "127.0.0.1" (it's that simple, isn't it?)...
      2. and select "Allow connections"...
      3. and leave all checkboxes deselected
   6. with a click on "OK" we quit the dialog and we're looking forward to the next one
6. now let's configure the MercuryP POP3 Server:
   1. "Configuration"-> "MercuryP POP3 Server", select the tab "General"
   2. "Listen on TCP port" -> "110" and "IP interface to use" -> "127.0.0.1"
   3. choose the tab "Connection control" and proceed as already written under 5.5 (see above)
   4. that's it already, leave the dialog by clicking "OK"
7. now we have the important one "MercuryC SMTP Client"
   1. "Configuration" -> "MercuryC SMTP Client"
   2. to send mail to external addresses we need to have an external SMTP server. If you're renting webspace somewhere and have mail included then you normally have access to a SMTP server. My webspace is hosted at HostEurope and I'll use the SMTP of my domain. Without such an external server the whole thing won't work because domain names won't be resolved among other things. I've chosen this path because I didn't feel like configuring around the whole day.
   3. enter the address of your SMTP under "Smart host name", for example "mail.meinedomain.com"
   4. depending on the way you access the server fill the values under "Connection port/type":
      1. for a "normal" SMTP that would probably be port 25 and "Normal (no SSL encryption)"
      2. I access my SMTP via SSL, that would be port 465 and "SSL encryption using direct connection"
      3. if you have other parameters simply try around a little
   5. we finally fill in the "Login username" and the "Password" that normally is supplied by your webhost and we've nearly finished...
8. let's check the Mercury users that are normally pre-configured:
   1. "Configuration"-> "Manage local users"
   2. there should be at least the users "Admin" and "postmaster", both with administrative rights. If not you have to add them.
9. now we finished with Mercury, but we still need to configure PHP for sending mail with our scripts:
   1. we search and open the appropriate php.ini, using XAMPP you find it under "xampp/php/php.ini" in newer version and under "xampp/apache/bin/php.ini" in older versions
   2. we search for "[mail function]"...
   3. and we add/adjust the following:
      1. "SMTP = localhost"
      2. "smtp_port = 25"
      3. "sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost"
   4. save the php.ini and restart the Apache
10. now everything should work! But we'll test it first:
    1. within Mercury choose "File" -> "Send mail message" and send an email for testing purposes, I've chosen to send it to my googlemail account
    2. if the windows in Mercury are at sixes and sevens, choose "Window" -> "Tile" enjoy the view
    3. within the window "Mercury Core Prozess" we'll see our test mail at first:
       1. "13:38:41 JOB XXXXXX: from postmaster@localhost (local) To: XXX@googlemail.com (non-local) (JOB XXXXXX) -OK"
    4. the mail was received in Mercury and processed, after some seconds the window "Mercury SMTP client (relay version)" should show some actions:
       1. "05 Jan 2008 13:39, Servicing job XXXXXX ...OK"
       2. if you see this message, everything went fine and the mail was sent!
       3. if you don't get the message you have to find out why, possible reasons could be:
          1. wrong connection values for the SMTP server
          2. SMTP server doesn't allow relaying (from your host)
    5. now we'll test the whole thing from a PHP script and we'll write a wonderful one-liner into a PHP file:
       1. "mail('xxx@googlemail.com', 'Mercury test mail', 'If you can read this, everything was fine!');"
       2. call the PHP file within your browser, a command window should pop up shortly (or maybe not), it's from the fake sendmail of XAMPP, and focus back on Mercury:
          1. the produre is the same as above only that the SMTP server receives the mail from php before everything else happens
          2. you can watch this in the window "Mercury SMTP Server" and should see something like this: Mercury SMTP

I hope that worked for you, if not, feel free to leave a comment but as I already said, I'm not a professional but I'll help you as far as I can!

EDIT:
If you get the error message "SMTP server response: 553 We do not relay non-local mail, sorry." while sending from PHP go to Mercury under MercuryS -> Connection Control -> "Uncheck Do not Permit SMTP relaying to non-local mail" an check this option. Should fix the problem. Thanks to ron!

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These are other links and tutorials that is used for research. These might help when setting up Mecury Mail

• How To: Setup Mercury Mail on an XAMPP Package - This video is in my video library
• Setting up Mercury SMTP for XAMPP
• Configure XAMPP Mercury Mail
• Configure Mercury mail transport system for external mail sending
• Configure Mercury mail transport system for external mail
• Using Mercury mail to send mails - forum thread
• Mercury mail - forum thread

There have been loads of times when updates are ready but i want the computer / laptop off and ready to move asap (to go home from work and take my laptop with me). was so annoying having to wait for windows to update when i didn’t want to.

I have found a way to shutdown windows 7 without being forced to install the updates…

Run regedit (search in start menu)

Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
if the keys “WindowsUpdate” and “AU” aren’t there just add them (right click > New > Key)
right click > New > DWORD
name it “NoAUAsDefaultShutdownOption” double click it and enter value 1.

the “shutdown” button will never be changed by Windows Update from your default action to “shutdown and install updates”.
If updates are ready to be installed “shutdown and install updates” is instead displayed in the [>] menu to the side of the shutdown button

On my system it happend almost as soon as the registry value was added, but you may need to reboot before the change is applied.

Also important is “NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers”, also a DWORD in the same location with value 1. This stops Windows from rebooting automatically if a user is logged in or you leave it working overnight for example.

If you need to open a windows registry hive from an old/external/slave hard drive that has a windows installation on it.

I recently had a machine go down at work, wanted to get the user’s email up and running asap so i attached their hard dirve to my laptop using a usb to SATA adapter and exported their outlook account settings, which are stored in the registry and imported them into a new pc.
See my article: how to backup outlook 2007 account settings.

1. Open REGEDIT
2. single click to hightlight the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch.
3. in the menu click FILE and choose LOAD HIVE
4. browse to the location of the old registry hive.

where “x:\” is the drive of the slave/external hard drive…

“user” is located in x:\docs and Settings\user\NTUSER.DAT
make sure you open upper case “NTUSER.DAT” and not “ntuser.dat” if it exists.

other registry hives are located at x:\windows\system32\config

if you’re not sure or unclear on any of this, please comment and ask.

On the pc, logged in as the user you want to backup settings for…

1. Start > Run > type ‘regedit’
2. Locate the following path in your ‘Registry Editor’
3. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook

Now right click on the key “outlook” and select option: “Export” and save the .reg file to your desired location. You can run (double click) the same file on the new pc /installation at the same time as restoring your outlook pst. This will restore your old outlook profile with all your email accounts settings and rules. You will need to enter your password as Password is not stored in the .reg file for security reasons.

if you are unable to log in, for example cant boot windows or other failure you can access the registry by removing the system hard drive and connecting it to another computer.
Here’s how: how to access registry on another hard drive. If you use this method, before importing you will need to manually edit the .reg file using find/replace to change all lines with “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/hivename” to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER/”

after hours of fiddling i discovered that vodafone will not allow unencyrpted emails to be sent over their mobile network. This is certainly true for their dongles, port 25 might still work for contract phones. Receiving might still be working normally.

this message might appear:

Task 'abc@xyz.com - Sending' reported error (0x800CCC67) : ' The server responded: 421 cannot connect to server'

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The only problem I can find that would match these symptoms, is that you're trying to connect un-authenticated - as I believe our network will intercept connections made over Port 25 and re-direct you to the now defunct send.vodafone.net server. It's possible this is still happening.

Double-check that Authentication is enabled, SSL is enabled, and that it's using Port number 465.

NB: should be secure and possibly authenticated in both directions
add other smtp servers here

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