Category Archives: Applications

Free MSI Editor: InstEd

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Aaron Parker

I haven’t used Orca to edit MSI files since I found Camwood appEditor around November last year. Since then though, appEditor has become has become InstEd and it’s even better than its’ predecessor. This is a great way to edit … Continue reading →

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You cannot share the Normal.dot file among multiple users in Word

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Aaron Parker

On a semi-regular basis I see an issue on customer networks whereby users receive errors in Microsoft Word similar to the following: Word cannot save changes to the global template because it was opened with read-only access. Do you want … Continue reading →

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DELPROF: What The?

Posted on December 14, 2006 by Aaron Parker

We all know that Windows is not case sensitive when it comes to the command line. Someone forgot to tell DELPROF though – you can use DELPROF in a script to automatically and silently delete user profiles. However it seems … Continue reading →

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No Preview For You!

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Aaron Parker

I think that the attachment preview feature (see number 10) of Outlook 2007 is one of its best new features, however I’ve noticed that Outlook can’t preview calendar appointments sent as an attachment. So essentially, Outlook can’t preview it’s own … Continue reading →

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Daemon Tools: You must reboot after a previous operation

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Aaron Parker

Daemon Tools was giving me some grief after upgrading to Windows Vista RTM and I had to update to version 4.08 which includes an updated SPTD driver for the virtual CDROM drive. When running the 4.08 installer for the first … Continue reading →

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