Fix The Blue Screen Of Death On Your Pc

If you want to force a new line (carriage return) in an excel text cell, use ALT+ENTER.

Installing Visual 6.3.8 to co-exist with version 5



Install the new version of Visual 6.3.8 to the default locations.

Those default locations are:

C:Program FilesCentura

C:Program FilesVmfg



When prompted for the location to install the config files enter the path to vmfg.

C:Program FilesVmfg



After everything is installed open regedit and delete this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareLilly SoftwareVISUAL ManufacturingConfigurationLocal Directory



If this key is left in the registry then the old version of visual will try to get it’s serial number from the new version of Visual.

One day my wifes Dell Vostro 3500 Laptops started to turn itself off when in use without any warning message or notification. Turning it on again it worked for a while an then powered off again without any hint where the problem may be caused by.

How-i-fixed-it:
I turned out to be caused by the fan assembly air outlet being full of dust so that no air was going through it any more to cool down the system. To get to it to clean it means disassembling the whole system but following the procedure well described in the service Manual under "
Removing the Heat Sink and Fan Assembly",
it took me about an hour to get the job done and since that, the system is running fine again.

Heres the link to the Dell Vostro 3500 Service Manual:
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_vostro_notebook/vostro-3500_service%20manual_en-us.pdf

Update: Had to clean it again Apr. 2014. Seems like it need yearly maintenance... Here are some images how the fan assembly looked like:








 

I have been working on a PowerShell script to automated the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Powershell Connection and login. 

I started by exporting my password to a file so that powershell could load that from my script.

 (get-credential).password|convertFrom-SecureString|set-content c:cred.txt  

Then I created this powershell script to make the connection.  At the bottom I added some powershell to tell us when the last DirSync was run too.  This is set to utc by default, so I also convert that to Local Time.

 $pass = get-content C:cred.txt | convertto-securestring
  
 $cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "superadmin@yourcompany.onmicrosoft.com",$pass
  
 $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication:Basic -AllowRedirection
  
 Import-PSSession $Session | Out-String
  
 Connect-MsolService -Credential $cred | Out-String
  
 echo "Last Dir Sync Completed at:"
  
 $DATEutc = Get-MSOLCompanyInformation | select -expand LastDir* 
  
 $DATEutc.ToLocalTime()  

Randomly my Laptop refused to connect my company WiFi. I wanted to delete and re-add the wireless Profile manually to see, if this fixes it. In Windows 8.1, i did not find the wireless profiles manager known from Vista or 7.

How-I-fixed-it:
Steve Sinchak wrote a blog entry how to delete a wireless Profile in Windwos 8 / 8.1 using a command prompt.
See his solution here:
http://tweaks.com/windows/65347/how-to-delete-wireless-profiles-in-windows-8/

Solution #2 - Uninstall Update KB2982791
















  
wusa /uninstall /kb:2982791 doesn’t work in the recovery console, you have to use DISM.

Today i was wondering, how i can live stream images from my camera, which does not support winvideo, but comes with a custom SDK into MATLAB/Simulink.

How-i-fixed-it:
I  used the Image Acquisition Toolbox™ Adaptor Kit to create an adaptor  to create a custom adaptor (C++-DLL) using Visual Studio, like described here:

http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/imaq/creating-custom-adaptors.html

Description: The Adaptor Kit is a C++ framework that you use to create an adaptor to support new Hardware.

There are some open source KINECT imaq adaptor projects out as well to receive Microsoft KINECT RGB and depth data in MATLAB:

http://matkinect.sourceforge.net and http://sourceforge.net/projects/matkinect/
Heres a video that shows it working: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njstg3jnCg0

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/297204

Today i installed Office 365 in parallel to my existing Office 2010 on my Windows 8 Computer. Under Outlook 2010 i use OpenXChange OXTender 2 - Version 7.0.62 to sync with OpenXChange Groupware.
After installing Outlook i created a new mail profile. But in Outlook 2013 i cant open the MAPI Folder. Clicking on it an error message Pops up "The Folder could not be expanded.... MAPI was unable to load the Information service "oxstor.dll" ..."

I also re-installed OXTender, but this did not fix it. Under Outlook 2010 the sync is still working fine.

I posted the question here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_365hp-outlook/cant-sync-outlook-2013-with-openxchange-because-of/f87f287c-e62a-4e5b-994c-da90769bf00c

https://forum.open-xchange.com/showthread.php?7769-Outlook-2013-quot-Der-Informationsdienst-quot-oxstor-dll-quot-konnte-nicht-geladen-werden-quot

How-i-fixed-it:
The document Outlook OXtender 2 Best Practices states, that it does not work having both Office 2013 and 2013 installed in parallel:
...
Please note that the following is not supported:

• Office 2010 Home and Business test version
• MS Outlook running in a virtual environment (e.g. VMware or Parallels Desktop)
• Using both OL2007 and OL2013
• Using both OL2010 and OL2013

....

I removed Office 2010 from my Computer and re-installed Outlook OXTender again, created a new profile and... it works.

Here you can find the Information:
http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Outlook_OXtender2_Best_Practice

Today I tried to update my VW up! maps + more System to Software Version 7.10.25. Navigon Fresh told me, theres not enough space free in the built-in memory to make the update (Error CB1100). Heres how the error looks like:

The issue is also discussed in the upownersclub:
http://www.upownersclub.co.uk/forum/navigon-software-update-710_topic2759_page2.html
and german the up-szene.de
http://www.up-szene.de/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=457.
and the danish VAGcars.dk
http://www.vagcars.dk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=54243&start=2820
and the german motor-talk.de
http://www.motor-talk.de/forum/maps-more-update-dezember-2012-probleme-t4350892.html
and in the netherlands
http://www.vwupforum.nl/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1508&p=25167&hilit=update#p25167
and in upsociety.de
http://www.upsociety.de/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=149&s=bea86988b2710f377153f9496e9560edf7a09a31
and briskoda.net
http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/261824-move-fun-pid-update-71025-problemsolved/

Looking through the boards, the problem also seems to affect the Skoda Citigo Move & Fun. I did not find entries that its also affecting the SEAT Portable so far, but since its the same hardware it may be.

How-I-fixed-It:
Theres no real "fix" for this so far, just a workaround using an USB-Stick as temporary memory (Thanks to user nightbow in the upownersclub):
- You need an empty usb stick with 4GB or more.
- Copy all data from the navi on the stick.
- Deduct the navi from usb.
- Start the program navigon fresh and start the update!
- Software is updated on the USB stick now
- Finish navigon fresh
- Then naviagate on the usb stick to the folder NAVIGON map and delete some of the maps you dont need
- Connect the navi again and delete everything on it
- Copy all data from the stick on the navi andconnect it to the car

German / Deutsch (Danke an user CitiGo) im up-szene.de Forum:
- Die kompletten Daten vom internen Speicher auf den USB-Stick kopieren.
- M&M vom PC trennen.
- Navigon Fresh starten
- Der USB-Stick sollte jetzt als M&M erkannt werden
- Update starten
- Achtung: der Stick wird nach fertigstellung nicht mehr von Navigon Fresh erkannt
- Nach fertigstellung des Updates Navigon Fresh wieder beenden.
- Nicht benötigte Karten (xxxx.map) vom USB-Stick löschen. (NAVIGON->map)
- M&M wieder mit dem PC verbinden und den gesamten internen Speicher löschen.
- Den kompletten Inhalt des USB-Stick auf das M&M kopieren
- M&M vom PC trennen -> das M&M sollte jetz neu booten
- M&M mit dem Auto verbinden

Heres a little update this:
- Navigon Support told me to buy a 4 GB SD-Card to increase the device memory. But they were not able to tell me so far, whether the card has to stay always in the slot or not. So Ill not gonna buy anything before this is clear.
- User telephoneman in the motor-talk.de-Forum wrote, he got told by the Navigon Support to send it to them to get it replaced. According to Navigon this is a known issue!
Anyway.
- Today i contacted VW support directly on their free german support number 0800-8655792436 and a very friendly woman told me shell forward my request to the responsible people inside VW. She told me theyll get back to me within a day or two.

Heres the next update:
- The Lady called me back and said, since its a third-party product, I have to get this sorted out with Navigon directly. I should also see my local VW dealer to see, if they can help me there.

I got a new mail from the Navigon Support:
- If i use a SD-Card with no more than 4GB, than the device will store some of the data on this card. The Card then has to be ALWAYS in the device for it to work and they do not recommend storing Music on the Card
(In my words: If I do it like this, I will not be able to Play Music from th e SD Card any more.)
In the end they told me to talk to my VW dealer since hes responsible to handle this issue from their Point of view.

Latest update:
My VW dealer ordered a new Maps&More device for me. The new one does not show the issue.

I got a used Inter-tel IP phone off ebay that wouldnt let me program it using the 7/8 key combination.

I was able to telnet into the IP phone with the default password of iptpassw and use the command DBMN to tell it the IP settings.
After that it still couldn’t connect because the firmware was not compatible with the v9 IPRC. The phone was at v1.01 and needed 8.1.0.

I looked in the manual and found out that I need to flash the latest 8.1.0 firmware and it should be called ipp+.hex
My v.9.1.0.1 disc has lots of firmware, but not that one. I did find it on the v9.0.0.1 disc.
I held down the 5 and 6 to get the 770.4500 into download mode.
It assigned itself an address of 192.168.200.201.
I started the Upload utility and entered the IP address of 192.168.200.201 along with the default account (IPT) and password (iptpassw).
I changed my PC IP address to 192.168.200.200 so I could connect to the IP phone.
I started the upload and everything worked!

It looks like everyone was correct about the 770.4500 phones.
These older IP phones do not require an endpoint license.
My 8622 phones had to come with endpoint licenses at $200 a pop.
I DON"T have the Firmware for the 8622.  I only have it for the 770.4500.

Today I went to install System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 from Microsoft and I ran into a problem adding disks to my DPM protection disk pool.
Turns out Server 2008 R2 installed the System Reserved Partition (100MB) on the RAID array that I setup for DPM 2010 backup storage and not on the mirrored system partition like it should have. I could not convert the array from MBR to GPT that is required for disk arrays over 2TB until I got that partition off of there.

Here is how to delete the partition:

1) Open a command prompt with administrator privileges (right click => run as administrator)

Type:

bcdboot c:windows /s c:

You should get a message similar to:

Boot files successfully created.

2) Open the Disk Management GUI (you could use diskpart for scripts), locate the C: partition right-click and select “Mark Partition as Active”, select yes to the “do you want to continue message”

3) Reboot to confirm that everything is ok.

4) In Disk Management you can now delete the 100Mb System Reserved partition by right clicking on it and selecting “Delete volume”

Before I got the information above, this is how I did it.
This is more usefull if you have already deleted the System Reserved partition or messed it up some how and now need to delete it from the recovery console.

1. From Disk Management assign a drive letter to the System Reserved Partition so that you can access the files. They are hidden, so you will need to turn off the option to hide system files.
2. Copy bootsec.bak, bootmgr and the entire boot folder from the System Reserved partition to the c: drive.
3. Set the c: drive partition as active
4. Now you can delete the System Reserved Partition. I had to go recreate my RAID array after rebooting to the RAID BIOS to delete it. You might also be able to delete it using BartPE or WinPE.
5. Boot the OS from the installation DVD and choose repair.
6. Load RAID drivers if you need to and then go to the command prompt.
7. Run these commands to fix the MBR and boot sector.

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

bootrec.exe /fixboot

bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

8. Reboot!

Before I figured this all out I deleted the partition and my server wouldnt boot, so I had to work a little harder.
I had to get the files from another Server 2008 R2 server and put them on a thumb drive. Then I booted to the repair console and used xcopy with the /H switch (so that it would copy the hidden files to the c: system partition.)

Here are some of my tips for a cutover migration to Office 365 with ADFS and Single Sign-on

1. My primary smtp on Exchange 2010 still had a reference to skillsinc.local (along with skillsinc.com) after I changed all the UPNs from .local to .com and that was messing things up.  When I looked in Office 365 none of my migrated mailboxes had .onmicrosoft.com aliases!  Without that Federation will not work.  I used ADMODIFY from Codeplex to remove all reference to skillsinc.local from my local AD.  This blog does a great job detailing how to do that: http://seanofarrelll.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-to-federate-existing-office365.html  Then I wrote a powershell script that added the .onmicrosoft.com alias to all the inboxes using Set-MsolUserPrincipalName to fix this problem.  I will post that in another blog post.
2. Make sure you are running your powershell commands and scripts in the correct window!  Some run on your local exchange shell and some in the Office 365 shell (Microsoft Online Services Powershell module).  Exchange2007MBtoMEU.ps1 must be run from your local exchange server shell to make the changes to your local Active Directory.
3. Make sure you open the scripts and know what they are doing!  If you get errors, stop everything and figure out what went wrong.  Did you run it from the wrong shell?  Is there something wrong with the .onmicrosoft.com alias or the primary smtp in AD? Look at the output in cloud.csv and see if any information is missing.  Mine was missing the CloudEmailAddress because the .onmicrosoft.com alias was missing from all my cloud mailboxes. (See bullet point 1)

I had my Lumia 920 WP8 phone connected to my company / university WLAN at KIT  (wkit-802.1x) for months without issues. A few days ago, it started to refuse to connect to the WLAN. It kept asking my for username and passwort and then just told me "Anmeldung nicht möglich" (german). I think the error message in english could be something like "Cannot connect" or "Could not connect to WLAN".

How-i-fixed-it:
The Problem seems to be caused by an issue with the root certificate the Network uses (Deutsche Telekom Root CA 2). I downloaded the certificate again as described on my university WLAN help page, sent it to myself by email and opened it on my phone. WP8 asked me to install the certificate and i confirmed.
After that, i tried to connect to WLAN again and it works!

Today i cleaned up my Outlook 2007 inbox and deleted some old mails. Suddenly a couple of mails in the list were shown blank (No sender/receiver, no subject) with the date "None".
Scrolling through the inbox list the scroll stuck as soon as i came to those entries. I could not select the entries nor delete them.

How-i-fixed-it:
I seems like the pst folder went corrupt.
I found the solution here: http://office.microsoft.com/de-de/outlook-help/durchsuchen-und-reparieren-fehlerhafter-outlook-datendateie-HA010075831.aspx

Office comes with a tool called "SCANPST.EXE". Its located under C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12

Close Outlook and start the tool. Then select the .pst-File that seems to have issues and the the tool repair it. I automatically creates a backup of the file before modifying it.

I let the tool repair the .pst file and my inbox was fine again.

I friend called me today. He wanted to re-install his Computer, but was able to find his Office 2010 product key any more.

How-I-fixed-it:

Using the Freeware Tool ProduKey by NirSoft you can read out the Product Keys or Serials of many Microsoft products installed on your Computer.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

Heres a list of supported programs:

Microsoft Windows 98/ME

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft Windows NT

Microsoft Windows XP

Microsoft Windows Vista

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Windows 7 (Doesnt work with Microsoft Volume Licensing)

Microsoft Windows 8 (Doesnt work with Microsoft Volume Licensing)

Microsoft Office 2000 (Only ProductID is displayed)

Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Microsoft Exchange Server 2000

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

Visual Studio

I dont have Adobe Photoshop and Publisher 2013 does not Export CMYK Images. I wanted to send an Image to be printed to an online printing service (flyeralarm). They required the image the to be a jpeg, tif or PDF with images in CMYK color space using the  „ISO Coated v2 300 % (ECI)“ color profile.

How-I-fixed-it:
I found a couple of ways, how to convert my RGB jpeg image to CMYK colorspace:

1. Using GIMP
Theres a plugin for the (great!) open source freeware GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), which is called separate+ and can be found here. Download it and copy the required files to your GIMP Plug-Ins folder. You also need the ICC Color profiles, which can be downloaded from Adobe here. Copy the profiles to C:WindowsSystem32spooldriversColor
After that, GIMP color management allows you to select the desired Profile.
Theres a much more detailed description here (in German).

2. Using the "convert" tool of ImageMagick
Install ImageMagick on your computer.
You also need the ICC Color profiles, which can be downloaded from Adobe here. Copy the profiles to C:WindowsSystem32spooldriversColor

Using the command line type
convert sourcefile.jpg -profile Path_to_color_profile.icc outputfile.jpg
or, if you want a PDF:
convert sourcefile.jpg -profile Path_to_color_profile.icc outputfile.pdf

The detailed description can be found here (in German).

3. There are online Services that do the conversion for you:
http://www.rgb2cmyk.org/
http://www.cmykconverter.com/

I set up a Computer with Windows 7 and a HP LaserJet P2015dn connected to it. All Drivers were installed by Windows during Setup.
But when printing, the Options for Duplex in Printer Settings only showed "Manual Duplex", but my Printer has an Auto Duplex Unit installed.

How-i-fixed it:

In found the solution here:

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-All-in-One-Software-Drivers-e-g-Windows-8/Missing-auto-duplex-option-in-Win-7-for-LaserJet-P2015dn/td-p/675523

1. Click on the Start button.

2. Click on Devices/Printers.

3. Once the windows screen has popped up....scroll down to your Printers/Faxes section.

4. Right click on the P2015 printer icon.

5. In the drop down menu, select "Printer Properties"

6. Once the Printer Properties dialog box has opened, click on the device settings tab.

7. Scroll down to the Duplex Unit line and make sure this is set to installed. If not, use the pull down tab and change to installed.  (see below pic.).

A few days ago i received my new Dell XPS 12 convertible ultrabook / tablet. I noticed, in tablet mode sometimes the screen quits auto-rotate and the auto-rotate on/off-button becomes inresponsive. I have to go to display settings manually and Switch back to 0 degress or do a reboot.

How-I-fixed-it:
Following the hints by guy_mx99 in this thread, i let Windows Update do a manual search on available updates. Under optional updates there were also listed 3 Windows 8.1 Drivers. After installing all optional updates Auto-Rotation now seems to work OK.

I noticed, the issue is discussed in some Forums already, so here are the links i found so far on this issue.

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19493100/20512873.aspx#20512873

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19528623/20500967.aspx

http://commweb-ps3.us.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19537377/20497975.aspx

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-hardware/switching-between-tablet-and-laptop-mode-on-dell/6908176b-1a4b-4399-a6d8-766e3331ce4a

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-hardware/screen-rotation-dont-work-propertly-on-xps-12-9q33/eff977a1-e1f4-4c91-ae4d-e6ca3e78d858

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/20497926/reply.aspx

I was looking for a smart way (without having to compile much stuff on my own) on how to communicate with ROS from Matlab. I wanted to receive color and depth images published by a ROS node for the Microsoft Kinect camera and Display the Images on a Matlab GUI.

How-i-fixed-it:
Me and Google worked out together, how to get it done.

I used the ROS-Matlab Bridge created by Tingfan Wu at UCSD, which is based on rosjava. It can be downloaded under: https://code.google.com/p/mplab-ros-pkg/wiki/java_matlab_bridge.
The setup is described on the project page.

Next i did a svn checkout of the repository http://mplab-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
The trunk has some updated files compared to the zip download dated 2012-10-23.

The project can either be used to run your own ROS master locally or to connect to another ROS master somewhere on the network. The HelloWorld.m example script is the point to start to make yourself familiar with the functionality of the software.

Based on this examples, i created my own script to subscribe to a kinect Images Publisher on my local network. I subsribed to the topics /camera/rgb/image_color and /camera/depth/image_rect.

I found the right hints on how to convert the sensor_msgs/Image message data to MATLAB Images here: https://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~meam620/wiki/index.php?n=Roslab.KinectMatlab, written by Ben Cohen. My implementation is a little different to theirs, but it was a good point to start.

Heres my final result:

jmb_init();

 

%MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311;

%Set URI of the ROS master

 

 

MASTER_URI=http://i60p23:11311;

 

%Set the name of your node

 

 

NODE_NAME=Kinect_Listener;

 

%Init the node

 

 

node=jmb_init_node(NODE_NAME, MASTER_URI);

 

%Setup a logger

 

 

logger=node.getLog();

 

%Subscribe to the RGB and depth messages

 

 

sub_rgb=edu.ucsd.SubscriberAdapter(node,/camera/rgb/image_color,sensor_msgs/Image);
sub_depth=edu.ucsd.SubscriberAdapter(node,/camera/depth/image_rect,sensor_msgs/Image);

 

%Set the read timeout

 

 

timeout=5;

 

%Setup a figure to draw onto

 

 

close all;

rect = [100, 100, 320, 500]

 

figure(Position,rect);

 

%Two variables to calculate the fps

 

 

lastTime = 0;

fps = 0;

 

%Get 500 frames and draw the images on the figure

 

 

for frame = 1:500

 

%Get the RGB image

 

msg=sub_rgb.takeMessage(timeout);

 

if isempty(msg)
logger.warn(timeout);
else
%Read the timestamp

 

timeStamp = msg.header.stamp.toSeconds;

 

%logger.info(sprintf(I got rgb image %dx%d, msg.width, msg.height));
%Calculate the fps for frames > 0
if(frame == 1)

lastTime = timeStamp;

 

else

 

fps = 1/(timeStamp-lastTime);

lastTime = timeStamp;

 

end

 

 

%Convert data type
data = typecast(msg.data,uint8);

 

%Re-Order the data into a matlab rgb array. The raw data has the
%format RGBRGBRGB.... beginning with the upper left image pixel
%(0,0). This format has to be converted to matlab format

 

img_rgb(:,:,1) = reshape(data(1:3:end),640,480);

img_rgb(:,:,2) = reshape(data(2:3:end),640,480);

img_rgb(:,:,3) = reshape(data(3:3:end),640,480);

 

%Flip the values

 

img_rgb = flipdim(img_rgb,2);

 

%Rotate the image 90 degrees

 

img_rgb_rot = imrotate(img_rgb,90);

 

%Plot the image

 

subplot(2,1,1);

 

imshow(img_rgb_rot); title(sprintf(Kinect: RGB (%d@%2.1f fps),frame,fps),FontSize,14,FontWeight,Bold);

drawnow;

 

end

 

 

%Get the depth image

 

msg=sub_depth.takeMessage(timeout);

 

if isempty(msg)
logger.warn(timeout);
else

 

 

%Re-Order the data into a matlab rgb array. The raw data has the
%format RGBRGBRGB.... beginning with the upper left image pixel
%(0,0). This format has to be converted to matlab format
img_depth = reshape(typecast(msg.data,single), msg.width, msg.height);

 

%Flip the values

 

img_depth = flipdim(img_depth,2);

 

%Rotate the image 90 degrees

 

img_depth_rot = imrotate(img_depth,90);

 

%Plot the image

 

subplot(2,1,2);

 

imagesc(img_depth_rot./max(img_depth_rot(:))); title(sprintf(Kinect: Depth),FontSize,14,FontWeight,Bold);

drawnow;

 

end

 

 

end

 

 

node.shutdown()

 

Some more info and connecting ROS and MATLAB can be found here: http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning/Matlab

My System configuration:
Windows 8 Enterprise 64 Bit
Matlab 2013a 64 Bit
guava-13.0.1.jar