Explorer crashing on clicking Printer Preferences

I have found out a solution that worked for me. I tried a printer driver cleaner, and that didn't work, but these instructions worked:

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-623...170654&start=0

I'll paste in the 3rd party text also in case it gets deleted on the other site:



"The following steps will wipe printer and printer drivers from the computer:

A. Removing entries from Add/Remove programs.
B. Removing entries from Printers and Faxes folder.
C. Removing entries from Registry.
D. Removing folders from C:\Windows

A. Add/Remove Programs:
=======================
1. Click Start, Control Panel and double-click Add/Remove Programs.
2. If there is an entry relating to one of the printers, select it, then click Change/Remove.
3. Follow the dialog and "uninstall all" or "remove all" as appropriate.

Some "printer software" have programs that show up here and it will be a good idea to remove those before going any further.

B. Printers Folder:
===================
1. Click Start, Control Panel and double-click Printers and Faxes.
2. Delete all the Printers available, by right-click and selecting "delete" option.
3. Click File menu and select Server Properties.
4. Select the Drivers tab.
5. For each entry, select the entry and click Remove.

C. Windows Registry:
====================

Before modifying registry, take a backup of it.

1. Click Start and click on Run.
2. Type Regedit and from File menu, click on Export Registry.
3. Select "All" option for backing up every key of registry.
4. Give a destination file (say Regbackup) and save it on to the Desktop.
5. Now, click "+" beside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
6. Click "+" beside CurrentControlSet
7. Click "+" beside Control
8. Click "+" beside Print
9. Click "+" beside Environments
10. Click "+" beside Windows NT x86
11. Click "+" beside Drivers
12. Under this key, there will be the keys Version-2 and Version-3 (some may be absent, which is normal)
13. Click on each Version key to find contents in the right-window pane.
14. Delete all the sub-keys inside Version-2 and Version-3, but not these keys themselves.
15. From File menu, click exit.

D. Deleting Folders:
====================
1. Click Start, Run and type "cmd" (without quotes).
2. Key-in the following commands:

net stop spooler
net start spooler

3. Type exit.
4. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to:

%systemroot%\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86

NOTE: %systemroot% is usually C:\Windows, but it might be "winnt" or something else; this is set when the OS is installed.

5. Inside w32x86, there will be folders with the names 2 and 3 (some may be absent, which is normal)
6. Delete all of the files and sub-folders in each of the 2 and 3 folders, but not the folders themselves.
7. Inside w32x86, there may be other folders with names starting with "hewlett_packard", "hphp" or something else; delete these folders also.
8. Restart the print spooler (as in 2nd step, above)
9. Restart the computer.

At this point, the system should be pretty well back to the way it was before any printers were installed. The printing subsystem is then "clean" and ready for printers to be added using printer drivers. Install the all-in-one software, now."

Thanks!

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0x00000709 Error / unable to set default printer / not showing in installed printer list

 Thanks to Geklo for posting the solution at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/57d9e420-0ea2-4561-a7cc-2fd33da792ae/printers-operation-could-not-be-completed-error-0x00000709-double-check-the-printer-name-and-make?forum=w7itproinstall

modify permission to allow edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
restart spooler and set the default printer.

 Thanks to Geklo for posting the solution at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/57d9e420-0ea2-4561-a7cc-2fd33da792ae/printers-operation-could-not-be-completed-error-0x00000709-double-check-the-printer-name-and-make?forum=w7itproinstall


I opened regedit as admin and gave 'all' 'full' permissions tothe key listed. then restarted 'print spooler' service' and was able to set printer to default and use it in Adobe to print.

Outlook email error: 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA?

source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090115093142AAkvab2


Try doing this:

1) Open outlook
2) Go to Tools/Email Accounts
3) Select the Account with the trouble and click Change
4) Click on More Settings
5) Click on Outgoing Server Tab
6) Click "Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) requires authentication" and make sure "Use same settings as incoming mail server" is selected

source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090115093142AAkvab2

Sophos (Astaro) UTM 9 opening ports for Utorrent (bittorrent) - this works

This worked of rme, was simple to implement and I thank the original author for posting it...

Source: http://www.astaro.org/gateway-products/network-protection-firewall-nat-qos-ips/42529-utorrent-guide.html

After spending 2 days trying to make uTorrent work behind Astaro 8 I finally managed to solve it. Here is how I did...

Astaro gurus out there - feel free to comment on this...am I doing anything stupid here?

1. Create the Definition for the computer running uTorrent

Definition and Users -> Network Definitions -> New Network Definition ->

Name: uTorrent host (or whatever you want to call your seedbox)
Type: Host
Interface: Any
IPv4 Adress: 192.168.10.100 (or whatverver LAN address your seedbox has)
Comment: Whatever you want


2. Create the Service Definition

Definition and Users -> Service Definitions -> New Service Definition ->

Name: uTorrent
Type of Definition: TCP/UDP
Destination port: 55555 (or whatver port you have set in uTorrent)
Source port 1:65535
Comment: Whatever

3. Create NAT Rule

Network Security -> NAT -> DNAT/SNAT -> New NAT rule

Traffic Source: Any
Traffic Service: uTorrent
Traffic Destination: External (WAN) Network - (I dont really understand why it shouldn´t be Any to Internal......but it must be External)
Nat Mode: DNAT
Destination: uTorrent Host (the host definition created under p. 1 above)
Destination Service: uTorrent (the service definition created under p. 2 above)
Automatic Firewall rule: On

Turn it on, i.e. press the red/green switch

4. Create the outbound firewall rule

Firewall -> New Rule

Source: uTorrent Host
Service: Any
Destination: Any

Turn it on, i.e. press the red/green switch

This will open all outbound communication from the uTorrent host

5. Create the inbound firewall rule

Firewall -> New Rule

Source: Any
Service: uTorrent
Destination: uTorrent Host

Turn it on, i.e. press the red/green switch

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Happy seeding!

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dilandau Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 427

#2 (permalink)   04-25-2012, 09:20 PM Hi, Looks pretty good, I would just add for your DNAT rule I would suggest changing the traffic destination from External (wan) Network to using the External (WAN) Address. Then just traffic destined for the External IP will be forwarded instead of traffic for the whole network. Probably would only affect someone who had additional IP's configured on the interface. Also just to point out in #4 if someone didn't want to allow all services they could just allow the utorrent service for outbound traffic. (Might need to create another service with the source being the utorrent port) Step 5 would only be necessary if you didn't turn on the automatic packet filter rule in step 3. Good job outlining the steps, should be pretty useful as this question comes up pretty often.

VelvetFog Wizard Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 1,234

#3 (permalink)   04-29-2012, 11:26 PM Quote: Originally Posted by djfralla 3. Create NAT Rule Network Security -> NAT -> DNAT/SNAT -> New NAT rule Traffic Source: Any Traffic Service: uTorrent Traffic Destination: External (WAN) Network - (I dont really understand why it shouldn´t be Any to Internal......but it must be External) Nat Mode: DNAT Destination: uTorrent Host (the host definition created under p. 1 above) Destination Service: uTorrent (the service definition created under p. 2 above) Automatic Firewall rule: On The traffic destination for the Internet traffic by bit torrent peers sending requests to your bit torrent client is your External (WAN) Interface. Specifying External (WAN) Network is therefore ambiguous, and specifying an Internal IP address would be completely in error, since 192.168.xx.yy series "fakenet" addresses do not exist on the public Internet (reference: IRC1918). __________________ ASG v8.311 at home - HP Compaq EVO D530 2.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB HD, 3 NICs - Gigabit LAN - 15 Mbit WAN

djfralla Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 2

#4 (permalink)   04-30-2012, 08:06 AM Quote: Originally Posted by VelvetFog The traffic destination for the Internet traffic by bit torrent peers sending requests to your bit torrent client is your External (WAN) Interface. Specifying External (WAN) Network is therefore ambiguous, and specifying an Internal IP address would be completely in error, since 192.168.xx.yy series "fakenet" addresses do not exist on the public Internet (reference: IRC1918). Should I change from wan network to wan interface?

BarryG Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: southern California Posts: 9,197

#5 (permalink)   04-30-2012, 08:56 PM Yes. It's probably called "External (WAN) Address". Barry __________________ http://BlogSec.net http://JobOyster.com http://DealBert.net IT Consultant specializing in high-performance Web Infrastructure and Security. Astaro End-user since v1.x ASL 8.3x, HP DL145, 6 gigE NICs ASL 7.5x, HP DL360G5, Platinum License ASL 9.0x, Fanless Atom n270, 2GB RAM, 2 Intel GigE Netgear GS108T gigE switch & Astaro AP30 Access Point with 4 VLANs. 100-IP Home Power User License. 25/10mbit FiOS internet. Source: http://www.astaro.org/gateway-products/network-protection-firewall-nat-qos-ips/42529-utorrent-guide.html

Cisco AnyConnect Client for Mac issues

source: http://anders.com/cms/192


EDIT: The MacWorld guys came up with a simpler way to do the same thing:

sudo SystemStarter restart CiscoVPN

source: http://anders.com/cms/192

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1" Review - Great list of recommended apps for Android

source:  http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-10-1-Inch-White/product-reviews/B00D029NNA/ref=sr_1_2_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

 

218 of 239 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good tablet in 10" range, could have been better, July 7, 2013

By 

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This review is from: Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (10.1-Inch, White) (Personal Computers)

There are too many tablets these days, right?! Samsung's third generation of Galaxy Tab series is highly anticipated and for this price point phenomenal. I have been using Galaxy Tab 2 and I will compare and contrast here. I played around with review units of all sizes and I have since returned them. My reviews are unbiased and neutral! 7 and 8" are ideal for plane trips, long journeys. I had used a 7" Tablet on a long journey to listen to songs and read epub books (Aldiko) and it was a very pleasant experience. 7" form factor is lightweight, compact and great. If you are a bit experienced and can afford it, I recommend the 8". Samsung has made 8 and 7" almost same weight. In my opinion 8" is the maximum value for the money and features and hence I gave 8" a 5 star. I gave 7" a 4 star (but no means undermining it). I gave the 10" also a 4 star because of some strange feature `limitations'. In my opinion, 8" is ideal for consumer use and 10" is marketed for specific segments in business who use for spreadsheets, presentations, remote desktop like Citrix GoToMeeting.

Samsung has introduced 7", 8" and 10.1" of the Tab 3 series. They are entering all form factors. As I know they have something in 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10" lines. Woo.. All of the 7, 8, 10" Galaxy Tabs come in white and golden brown color. My preference is white color. Looks pretty!

Let's start off with salient points of all of the Galaxy Tab 3 series. I will later compare this specific 10.1in model to the previous Tab 2 version.

7-inch tablet: 1024 x 600, Marvell dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 8GB storage or ROM, a microSD card slot (upto 64 GB), Camera: 3MP rear-facing, 1.3MP front-facing and weighs 10.58 ounces (300 grams). Android 4.1.2

8-inch model: 1280 x 800, Exynos 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1.5GB ram, 16GB of built-in storage (ROM), a microSD slot (upto 64 GB, 5MP rear-facing, 1.3MP front-facing and 10.9 ounce (309 grams) Android 4.2

10.1-inch model: 1280 x 800, Intel Atom 1.6GHz Z2560 dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, a 16GB built-in storage (ROM), a microSD slot, 3.2MP rear-facing, 1.3MP front-facing and weighs 17.99 oz (510 grams). Android 4.2

I am not going into other details like accelerometer etc as they are all standard these days, Audio support - AAC, AMR, MP3, OGG, WMA/ASF, 3GA/M4A, FLAC, WAV; MP3/MP4/Music Tones; Music Player; Ringtones, Polyphonic. Video support: AVI/DIVX, WMV/ASF, FLV, MKV, MP4/3GP, WEBM; Video Player; Video Streaming. Software is current of release date, and it is expected could be upgraded as next version Android 5 Key Lime Pie. (Currently targeted for Oct 2013). Key Lime Pie's one of the main touting points is compatibility to avoid fragmentation, so I can foresee, all of these models being able to upgrade if Google keeps their promise.

The 10.1" has a physical home button so are others in the series. Also has capacitive Back and Menu buttons. 64 GB SD card is awesome! With prices plummeting for 64 GB cards, it is a great boon. Put all your music, books, photos on the SD card and you have a powerful computer in hand always! I personally use the 64 GB microSD card on my mobile devices. Get this mobileUltra (SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 Memory Card with SD Adapter - Retail Packaging.

I will compare the 10.1 Tab 3 with Tab 2. Big improvement in weight, I would like the 10in series to break lower 400 grams ground. This probably has to wait another 2-3 years. Another difference gtom previous gen is the processor. Intel Atom Z2560. Tablets are nowadays coming with Intel for their excellent power saving capabilities. Asus Fonepad was one of the first to come out with a Intel based chipset. I really am waiting for the day the 10" are even lightweight and holdable. The Tab 3 is 510 grams compared to 589 grams of Tab 2. Resolutions are same 1280 x 800 pixels, 10.1 inches (~149 ppi pixel density). The resolution is a same as in Tab 3 8" which means 8" will be sharper. I am disappointed with lower resolution on the 10". One big puzzling factor for me with the premium price the 10" has only 1 GB RAM. What the ?! Why can't they put a 2 GB RAM on this monster of a device. I really wonder what the design team had in mind. The Tab has - Dolby Surround sound enhancement, it does sound good! Both have Bluetooth 4.0" and have USB Host. USB Host is one of the most under noticed features of Androids and is in my opinion one of the best features compared to iPad lines. What this means you get a USB Host cable also otherwise called OTG (On the Go) cables and plug in your USB thumb drive or other USB devices and the device recognizes it. I have used it with Alfa AWUS036H for a wireless project with Android PCAP Capture from reputable Kismet wireless. Both have same camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels and 720p@30fps. Front facing is for skype. Again camera on 8" is better, obviously Samsung thinks no one will hold a giant 10" and take pictures. True and Point taken. Another much ignored feature is the TV-out (via MHL A/V link). 8 and 10.1in supports it, whereas 7in does not. You can connect Galaxy devices to a TV to make it truly a fantastic computer. Throw in a Bluetooth keyboard and it is awesome. Leo Laporte's TwIT TV which is Internet based show has one full episode in Know How on covering this topic. Battery is humongous Non-removable Li-Po 6800 mAh battery in Galaxy Tab 3. The one in previous model was 7000 mAh, this probably explains a slight drop in weight in Tab 3 10.1". GPS was spot on and I tried multiple GPS apps. It was bright outdoors (had to crank the brightness all the way up). I personally use Navigon from Garmin and have downloaded several apps.

For me the big downer has been screen resolution and RAM Size. Intel chipset has some weirdness as not all apps works properly. Firefox does not work on Inten based Android tablets as of June 2013. All apps are written for ARM processors. So for Intel, a layering has to be added to convert apps to work. This causes some apps to crash and has some weirdness. This is definitely not to alarm, but you should be aware of this. If an app works in 8" and not on 10" it is most likely due to the chipset difference. I would have waited for Intel to come out with their own chip based tablets, markets to stabilize on Intel chipsets and them Samsung to introduce it. I am sure Intel and Samsung struck a sweet deal.

Believe me, but don't get mired in the spec game. Samsung is creating markets for all form factors and I would consider this as an exploratory stage. Just like Ford or Toyota has cars in different shapes. Sizes and price range, so are the tablet vendors now. Remember the laptop wars, 10", 12" 13", 15, 17 and even some 19" if I remember right few years ago. We used to debate endlessly which laptop sizes are better, which has better speakers and so on. The time has come to fight it out for tablets! I would say go from budget and size. If budget is not a concern, I would say go for Samsung Tab 8". 8" is a sweet spot. If budget is a concern, Tab 3 7" is awesome, otherwise get the Tab 8. If you are business user, most likely the company will give the 10" tablet.

I tried following apps and they just worked awesome. A tablet is only as good as the apps you have how productive it makes you. It's almost like the camera/lens analogy in the DSLR space. What good it is to have a great DSLR body if you have no good lens? Same with Tablet body and apps you have.

WolframAlpha (I can go on for hours praising this. This is a truly genius app powered by hundreds of supercomputers in the background. Wofram is a computational genius). Well worth the $3 price.
Withings HealthMate. (Another remarkable app great UI/UX). I am getting the Pulse device as soon as it hit stores. I have been using Fitbit and just itching to get the Pulse as I like the integrated weight/track runs in one app)
Aldiko Book Reader Premium (absolutely love it)
Amazon Mobile
Android Status
Android Central app (great and must have for Android users)
Androidify
Angry Birds (Space/Seasons)
Asphalt 7
Amazon App Store
Battery Monitor Widget Pro (a great app)
BeyondPod (excellent for podcasts, I haven't used Pocketcast, some friends say it is very good too)
Box
Car Maintenance Reminder Pro
Chrome
CloudShark Upload
CNET TV
Despicable Me Game! And weather widget (cute for kids)
Dictionary M-W Premium
Dragonvale
NAVIGON (from Garmin - offline maps)
Google Navigation/Earth/Maps using a portable MiFi box
Google Currents (nice way to read News)
Google Keep/Keboard/Drive/Search/Books/Voice/Hangouts
Draw Something
Ebay
Linkedin
Google Music (Awesome, I have now upto 10,000 songs halfway through Google's 20K Limit)
Tapatalk HD (awesome forum browsing app)
OverDrive Media Console: Library eBooks & Audiobooks
Microsoft One Note (legacy docs, skydrive of 25 GB is good)
Subsonic Music Streamer
Terminal Emulator (still need to use vi, yes this is it)
TweetCaster Pro for Android
Twit.Tv
Skype
Sphero (Awesome bluetooth ball game)
RealCalc Plus (Awesome calculator app)
Tweetcaster Pro (again awesomeness)
Plenty of Widgets

Ask questions, the reviews cannot do full justice. I will be glad to answer any questions and usually answer within 24 hours to any query.


source:  http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-10-1-Inch-White/product-reviews/B00D029NNA/ref=sr_1_2_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Fix for pdf thumbnail problem with Acrobat and Reader X - Preview issues in Explorer and Outlook solution

I have updated the screenshots from polish to english but this worked for me....Goodluck!!!

source: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/949406

Tags: #cs5 #acrobat #x64 #adobe #cs5.5 #windows_7 #explorer #thumbnails #acrobat_x #adobe_reader #cs55 #thumbnail

After installing Acrobat from CS5.5 on windows 7 x64 generating pdf thumbnails in windows explorer got broken, here's how i fixed that.

1. open reader x preferences (crtl + k), go to "General" tab, click "Select Default PDF handler" button and choose Reader
2. if thumbnails got fixed after that - great!
3. if not or even got worse (for me Reader assigned wrong program to handle PDF files) go to Control Panel in windows, click "Default Programs" or something like that (i can't tell how exactly it is in english because i use polish version of windows)





4. in window that opens click this




5. browse for .pdf and click "Change Program"




6. in window that opens select Adobe Reader, click OK, close control panel window
7. now open Adobe Reader from start menu/shortcut, press crtl+O (open file) and navigate to any folder containing PDF files
8. you should see windows generating thumbnails in the "Open File" dialog
9. it's (hopefully - at least for me it worked fine) fixed

hope this helps

source: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/949406