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Category: Windows

  • Receive email notification when WAN link on SonicWALL firewall goes down

    SonicWALL Failover and Load Balancing features work pretty well. Actually so well, that you may end up with one of your WAN links being down without realising it for days! To prevent this, you can setup an email alert to notify you whenever a failover event occurs. Go to Log > Automation Enter your email address in…

  • Configure MS Exchange Web Access to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS

    Open IIS (Internet Information Services) Manager Console Select Default Web Site and double click on HTTP Redirect  Check “Redirect requests to this destination” box and enter your OWA https address where you want to redirect to.i.e. https://webmail.company.com/owa Select “Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories)“ In “Status Code” select “Found (302)“ Open…

  • How to move application window that is off screen

    While using MS Windows, you can occasionally encounter situation where an application window is completely or partially off-screen and there is no obvious way to move it back to where it should be. This is especially common when dealing with multiple monitors or switching between remote desktop and local sessions.

  • Searching from Google Chrome address bar returns results for wrong country

    Issue Searching in Google Chrome by entering a search query in the Chrome’s Omnibox (address bar) returns results from google.com instead on google.co.uk as expected. Resolution Right click on the address bar in Google Chrome and select “Search Engines“ In the “Search Engines” box, scroll down to the very bottom and add a new search engine: Name:…

  • Modern Setup Host has stopped working while installing Windows 10 Tech Preview

    Issue Trying to upgrade an existing Windows 8.1 Pro installation to Windows 10 Technical Preview (build 9926) (via Windows Update). After Windows Update downloads installation files (over 2GB), the upgrade begins, but soon after it fails with error: Modern Setup HostModern Setup Host has stopped workingA problem caused the program to stop working correctly, Windows will…

  • The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed

    Issue Users can’t login on a single workstation in Windows Server 2008R domain. Following error message is displayed: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed. There are no other issues on the network and none of the other computers are affected.

  • Installing 32bit Windows on MacBook Pro with retina (2014)

    I recently had a task to install 32bit Windows 7 or Windows 8 on a 13” MacBook Pro with Retina. 32bit Windows version was important as the only reason for this installation was to run a certain legacy 16bit application. Yes, I’m not joking – some people still use 16bit software! There was also a…

  • Microsoft Outlook locks .msg files until restarted

    Issue Users cannot open certain .msg files on the network. Opening such file fails with error: Cannot open file: <path\to\file.msg>. The file may not exist, you may not have permission to open it, or it may be open in another program. Right-dick the folder that contains the file, and then dick Properties to check your…

  • Open Visio drawings in separate windows

    Normally Microsoft Visio opens all documents in the same instance / window. As with MS Excel, one way around this is to stop opening files by double clicking on them. Instead, you open a new blank Visio window from the start menu, and then open your documents via File > Open. This works, but is…

  • Find what is locking a file using Sysinternals Process Explorer

    There are many little utilities (such as Unlocker) that can display which application is locking a particular file and can try to unlock it. If you like more control or don’t want to install any software on the affected computer, you can use Sysinternals Process Explorer to do the same thing. You can download version 16.04 from…

  • Automatically change default printer when moving between different networks

    Windows has a useful feature that allows to automatically change your default printer depending on which network your laptop is connected to. Thre are few requirements – first of all, you must use Professional, Business, or another premium version of Windows 7 or Windows 8. It will not work in Home versions. Also, you must use…

  • Google Chrome – ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

    Issue Google Chrome refuses to display DrayTek Vigor 2820 login page over HTTPS connection. The following error is displayed: This webpage is not availableA secure connection cannot be established because this site uses an unsupported protocol.Error code: ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH