Items filtered by date: December 2015

Currently to view the Menu Bar a user can hit ALT on the keyboard to temporarily view the Menu Bar.

To keep the Menu Bar always visible, Open Regedit via Start Menu\Run\Regedit.

• Navigate to the following location:  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft
• Right-Click Microsoft select New then click Key.
• Name this key Internet Explorer
• Right-Click Internet Explorer select New, then click Key
• Name this key Main
• Right-Click Main select New, then click DWord (32-Bit) Value
• Name this value AlwaysShowMenus and set its value to 1

Now hit ALT on your keyboard and the menu bar should remain. To remove, either set the value to 0 or remove the AlwaysShowMenus value.

The fix is easy:

Special characters in the User Name will prevent the install. Create a new admin account with no special characters in it and use this account for the upgrade.

This is usually caused by a corrupt registry entery after software has been installed or uninstalled.

Fix 1:

• Use REGEDIT and go to this location:
  {code class="brush: text"}HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{f81e9010-6ea4-11ce-a7ff-00aa003ca9f6}\InProcServer32\{/code}

• Default is set to nil and there may also be  a string under it called:
  
  ~~~Disabled~~~ = ntshrui.dll

• Set (Default) to ntshrui.dll and delete foreign key.

Fix 2:

• Use REGEDIT and go to this location:
  {code class="brush: text"}HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{/code}
• You should have the following two keys:
  {code class="brush: text"}{1f2e5c40-9550-11ce-99d2-00aa006e086c} - To enable the Security Tab {f81e9010-6ea4-11ce-a7ff-00aa003ca9f6} - To enable the Sharing Tab. {/code} 
• Re-create any missing keys if necessary.
   

Remove printer drivers

1. Load the recovery options form your Windows Vista DVD and run command prompt
2. Now type bootrec.exe and press Enter. This will rebuild the boot configuration data and hopefully fix your problem. You can also run the command with switches to fix just the master boot record (/fixmbr), the boot sector (/fixboot), or rebuild the entire BCD (/rebuildbcd).

1. Load the Microsoft Recovery Console from a Windows XP CD
2. Now at the prompt, type in fixmbr. Your damaged MBR will now be replaced with a new master boot record and your computer should now be able to boot properly. Note that you may also want to run the fixboot command to repair the boot sector with a new one.

A windows XP installation can become unbootable even if the partition is active.

This is usually caused by the boot loader files being located on another partiton and have not been moved when the windows install was imaged to another drive or that the partition arrangement has changed.

copy the following files to the windows XP system drive. The following files make up the windows XP bootloader. Make sure this new windows system partition is set active.

1. ntldr
2. NTDETECT.COM
3. boot.ini - properly configured

Unknown toolbar item "Format Source"
Unknown toolbar item "istyles"
Unknown toolbar item "Jlink"
Unknown toolbar item "ImageManager"
Unknown toolbar item "Stylesheet"

This is caused by my custom htaccess security rules, add the exceptions in to allow use of this editor without error or use the basic joomla one.

I tried to run scannow to repair Windows Vista.  I did that, but the scan only ran until 76%, then I received the message:  Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation."  How can I complete the scan and repair my Windows Vista.