Category: Windows

Outlook Send/Receive Task Reported Error 0x80040115

Issue Microsoft Exchange Office 365 email account in MS Outlook stopped receiving and sending emails. The following error is shown for Send/Receive tasks: Outlook Send/Receive Progress 0 of 1 Tasks have completed successfully Task ’email@domain.com’ – Sending’ reported error (0x80040115): ‘We can’t complete this because we can’t contact the server right now. Please try again…
Display count of selected emails in MS Outlook

Microsoft Outlook doesn’t a any built-in way to display the number of selected emails in a folder. As a workaround, you can do the following: November 2023MS Outlook 365
Switch to Transparent Background in Affinity Photo and Affinity Design

If you need to change an existing image’s background to transparent here is what to do. We are talking about multi-layer images, not removing the background from single-layer photos. Affinity Photo Document > Transparent Background Affinity Designer File > Document Setup > Colour > Transparent Background Affinity Photo 2.0.4Affinity Designer 2.0.3
PC failing to resume from sleep after Nvidia driver update

Issue Windows 11 desktop PC started to crash while resuming from a sleep mode. Upon waking up, the fans would start, the screen briefly flashes, but then nothing happens, the screen stays black and the computer is not responsive. The only fix is a hard reboot. After checking system logs I found that the day…
MediaPortal Titan skin text font too small after screen resolution change

After changing the screen resolution from Full HD (1920 x 1080) to 4K (3840 x 2160), Media Portal’s Titan skin’s text go very small. To resolve the issue, all I had to do was clear the skin’s cache. To do that, navigate to C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Cache\ and delete the folder with your skin’s name (in my case…
Microsoft Login Error – Something Went Wrong. [1200]

Issue A user cannot log in to any of the Microsoft Office apps (MS Outlook, Word, Teams, OneDrive, etc.) on a Windows 11 PC. The following, or similar errors pop up when trying to open the apps: ErrorSomething went wrong. [1200]Correlation Id: eb633a3c-2f18-4ff3-b672-e4bb8bba3c17Timestamp: 2023-11-12T10:37:53.000ZDPTI: dd54dc23d6ce2655b39a7bdbf683a029aa04d3b34eed1d249327bc5698dba2e1Error Tag: 657rxError Code: 2148073494
Outlook stuck loading profile with all profiles deleted

Issue Microsoft Outlook 365 stuck “Loading Profile” message and never starts. Normally, the quickest way to resolve this is to delete the affected profile from Control Panel > Mail > Profiles and then create a new profile (warning: this will delete locally cached email data). However, in this particular case, even with all the profiles deleted,…
Microsoft Office 365 Outlook v2310 update breaks COM add-ins

Issue All users who updated to the latest version of Microsoft Office (2310 build 16924) are having issues with the Invenias COM add-in. The add-in simply fails to load in Outlook without any errors or warnings. Resolution The add-in developer (Invenias) support confirmed that the issue was caused by Microsoft Office “improvements” to COM add-in…
Logitech MX Master 3 Mouse – custom side button actions not working

Issue Custom actions assigned to the Logitech MX Master 3 mouse stopped working. Closing and re-opening the Logitech Options application doesn’t help. The same issue also affects the Logitech MX Keys keyboard.
The Outlook data file has reached the maximum size

Issue Suddenly cannot send or receive emails in Microsoft Outlook. When trying to send a new email, the following message pops up: Microsoft OutlookThe Sent Items folder contains the maximum number of allowed items.Archive or move some items to another folder… After restarting Outlook, the following error is also shown: The Outlook data file C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\account_name.ost…
Can’t sync SharePoint library with OneDrive – You’re already syncing…

Issue SharePoint library stopped syncing on the user’s laptop and disappeared from OneDrive. The user’s OneDrive is still in sync. Trying to re-add the SharePoint library fails with the following error: Microsoft OneDriveSorry, we can’t sync this folderYou’re already syncing a shortcut to a folder from this shared library. Resolution The issue was caused…
Outlook Shared Calendar Improvements causes issues with calendar display

Issue Certain users started having issues with calendars in their Office 365 accounts within Outlook. Sometimes calendars would jump between “My Calendars“, “Other Calendars“, and “Shared Calendars” sections. Calendars would get selected and deselected by themselves, or temporarily disappear completely… Resolution The issue was resolved by unchecking the “Turn on shared calendar improvements” option…