Thursday, May 25, 2017

Yahoo and Outlook



In Account Security Settings, allow LESS SECURE APPS
    https://login.yahoo.com/account/security

This should be accessible when hover over name and click Account Info

Settings:
Incoming Mail (POP) Server

  Server - pop.mail.yahoo.com
  Port - 995
  Requires SSL - Yes
 
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server

  Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
  Port - 465 or 587
  Requires SSL - Yes  or TLD
Requires authentication - Yes
  Your login info

Email address - Your full email address (name@yahoo.com.)

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Surface RDP (DPI) Scaling Issues

Solutions, possibly

Change Surface "Display" settings first, and also RDP Display properties

OR
Change a registry setting and set an external manifest

   Note: name it "mstsc.exe.manifest" and put it into System32 folder..

    Related discussion involving Adobe...and...manifests


OR
Use Remote Desktop Connection Manager

Monday, May 15, 2017

If a Youtube video is blocked by region or jurisdiction

Consider
 http://en.savefrom.net/

Or take the youtube link and put ss in front of it.

Or use a proxy like
  http://www.filter bypass.me/

from article
 https://www.quora.com/How-to-download-youtube-videos-in-blocked-countries

If Windows\Temp fills up with CAB files

See
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3112358/microsoft-windows/windows-7-log-file-compression-bug-can-fill-up-your-hard-drive.html

It has to do with CBS log files passing 2GB and a compression bug running amuck.

Stop:
  Windows Modules Installer service

Move/Ren/Del files in
   C:\Windows\Logs\CBS

Restart

If Windows Updates Fail

R/C Properties of Start Button
Customize
check - "Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar"

http://jackstromberg.com/2013/09/code-80243004-windows-update-encountered-an-unknown-error/

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Reminder re VSSWriters

In elevated CMD prompt:

Run the command: “vssadmin list writers”. This will display the state of any VSS-aware application writers.

If any of the VSS-aware application writers are in an unstable state:
Troubleshoot the individual writer and error.
For Server 2003 or earlier only: Manually reset the state of the VSS writers.

Monday, May 1, 2017

Palm Software Movements

Check the following posts when trying to locate Palm software

https://www.dejaoffice.com/forums/showthread.php?3669-Hang-On-To-Your-Palm-Install-CDs-and-Palm-Desktop-install-Files


  • A new company now has the rights to the Palm name and logo and has a placeholder web site called mynewpalm.com. They have also taken possession of the palm.com domain and any link with palm.com redirects to mynewpalm.com. The unintended consequence of this (unintended as in, no one was paying attention) is that (I believe) *all* of the Palm downloads on the HPwebos.com Palm archive pages now do nothing more than redirect you to mynewpalm.com. This is because HOP still had those downloads mapped to the palm.com domian, but the masters of the internet have switched the tracks so to speak. So you can still find the Palm archive pages at HP (they were mapped to the hpwebos.com, although for some pages you have grab the page url and change "palm.com" to "hpwebos.com"-- sadly, this latter trick does not work for downloads).

    Just though folks would like to know. Hang on to those backed up installation files if you are still using Palm Desktop. Many 3rd party sites that offer them for download used the palm.com links. CNET does have a download of Palm Desktop 6.2.