Problem:

A virus attack has hidden all of the files on your hard drive and removed all of the programs from your start menu.

Solution:

Unhide your files (follow the link).

Check your temp folder for the contents of your start menu as it was likely moved there.

Below are the folders found under %Temp%\smtmp and what locations the shortcuts should normally reside in based on the version of Windows you are using.

us.pool.ntp.org
0.pool.ntp.org
1.pool.ntp.org
2.pool.ntp.org
3.pool.ntp.org

Your Mac Mail is corrupted and not working properly.  It hangs when checking for new mail and the wheel just spins forever.  It also hangs when trying to close the program and you must Force Quit every time.

Solution:

Reset everything.  Make sure to back up your emails first.

Quit Mail and delete:

• the file ~/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
• the whole folder ~/library/mail
• the whole folder ~/library/maildownloads

~ means your home directory. You can get to it by clicking on the house icon in the sidebar of any finder window or by going to /users/username.

You must install SQL management studio 2008 R2 in order to change the SA password

SQL management studio must be Run As Administrator or you can’t do anything (right-click the icon and choose Run As Administrator).
then you must turn on mixed mode authentication
then you can enable the SA account and set the password

You normally telnet into your router by using the command:

telnet 192.168.1.1 (where 192.168.1.1 is the IP of your router)

Use this command intead:

telnet -f c:\logfile.txt 192.168.1.1

This will save the output of your telnet session to the log file that you specify.

Log into your router and run this command:

show running

press enter as needed until you reach the end of the config.  Then check the text file and it will contain the configuration data.

This message pops up frequently while using Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 (probably any version).

Unable to add to the server junk e-mail lists, you are over the size allowed on the server. The Junk e-mail filter on the server will be disabled until your junk email lists have been reduced to the size allowed on the server

More Information:

The problem occurs in either Cached Mode or Online Mode.

The Safe Senders, Safe Recipients, and Blocked Senders lists contain zero items.

The boxes are checked to Trust email from my Contacts and Automatically add People that I email.

Safe Senders List is Blank

If I add an entry to any of the three lists and click apply, the same error message appears stating that the server list is full.  If I log into OWA and check the list, the entry I just added will not appear even though it still appears in the Outlook list.

If I add an entry to any of the three lists from within OWA, the item will appear in Outlook.

If I look at my Outlook Contacts list, I see over 33,000 items and most of them are duplicates of garbage.

33,000 Garbage Contacts from a series of bad syncs

Solution:

Uncheck the box to stop trusting your contacts list.  This was adding 33,000 entries to your safe senders list which is over the limit.

Clean up your messy contacts list and then check the box again.

Your Wifi stopped working on your laptop some time around removing it from your bag.

Cause:

The wifi switch is turned off because it brushed against the side of your bag as it exited.

Solution:

Turn on the wifi switch.

DELL WIFI SWITCH

Your iPhone is slowing down.  It takes several seconds to switch between apps.  Your battery seems to be draining quickly.

Solution:

Close all of the background apps.  They stay open even after you restart the phone.

Simply Double-click the Home button on your phone.

This brings up a window at the bottom with all of your open apps.  You can scroll sideways to see them all.

iphone task manager window

Hold your finger down on any of the icons for a few seconds and they will all appear with a red symbol that will allow you to start closing them.

iphone task manager ready to start closing apps

Tap on all of the apps to close them and then press the Home button again to go back to the home screen.  You will notice a great performance gain.

This is common if you migrate a virtual machine to a new VMware host and it automatically reconfigured the hardware with a new NIC.  You can safely click NO and everything will work but it is annoying that the message appears every time you open your network settings.  Here is how to remove the old NIC.

Method 1

1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then press ENTER.
2. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and then press ENTER.
3. Type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and then press ENTER.
4. Click View, and then click Show Hidden Devices.
5. Expand the Network Adapters tree.
6. Right-click the dimmed network adapter, and then click Uninstall.

Method 2 (overly complicated)

The DevCon utility is a command-line utility that acts as an alternative to Device Manager. When you use DevCon, you can enable, disable, restart, update, remove, and query individual devices or groups of devices. To use DevCon, follow these steps:

1. Download the DevCon tool by clicking the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
   311272 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272/ ) The DevCon command-line utility functions as an alternative to Device Manager
2. Unpack the 32-bit or 64-bit DevCon tool binary to a local folder.
3. Click Start, click Run, then type cmd and press ENTER.
4. Type CD:\path_to_binaries to navigate to the devcon.exe is located.
5. Use the following syntax to find installed network adapters:
   devcon findall =net or
   devcon listclass net
   Note In the output of the previous commands, there is a line for the ghosted network adapter that is similar to the following:
   PCI\VEN_10B7&DEV_9200&SUBSYS_00D81028&REV_78\4&19FD8D60&0&58F0: 3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (3C905C-TX Compatible)
6. Remove the ghosted device by typing the following syntax:
   devcon -r remove “@PCI\VEN_10B7&DEV_9200&SUBSYS_00D81028&REV_78\4&19FD8D60&0&58F0“

Method 3 (doesn’t work at all)

Microsoft offers a  FixIt patch for this issue but it did not work at all for me.  In fact, it made the problem worse.  It deleted all my NICs and created a new one called Local Area Connection 3 after making me reboot.  Then I tried to set the same static IP I had been using and got the same error that I started with.