After an upgrade to Office 2007, you may lose your file type association of TIF or TIFF files. When you doubleclick a TIF or TIFF, Windows asks you what program to use to open the file. This is behavior by design.…
After installing Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn) on a Virtual Machine, a system beep kept annoying me. The beep occurred with every system event. There are two possibilities: turn it off for one session, or turn it off for good. To…
After upgrading to VMWARE 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5, the SYSTEM proces on our File server had an high CPU load (100%). This especially occurred when we were copying files from the file server. Killing the SYSTEM proces did not result…
When you have hard deleted emails or appointments from Outlook, you can recover them with the dumpster. By default, the dumpster is activated only in your “Deleted items” folder. This means that, when you go to your “Deleted items” folder,…
Server defragmentation isn’t a task you can do, or even want to do, every day. It can lead to performance loss during defragmentation, so you may want to use some hints and tips before you run it on a monday…
Last week I asked myself: why do I leave all my Windows 2003 servers the way they are, while I defragment my Windows XP machine every month to keep it running smoothly? Aren’t the servers far more important in a…
In Office 2007, we have the possibility to personalize our Quick Access Toolbar (extension: qat). Every modification, that differs from the default Quick Access Toolbar, will be saved in the following directory C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office (where %username% must…
If you want to disable the dumpster (recover deleted items) for your users, you can use the Group Policy. If you can use the Group Policy, I would suggest that. Click here for a manual. If you cannot use the…
Outlook 2007 seems to be a little slower than Outlook 2003. To speed up Outlook 2007, here are some tips. Give it a try, it won’t slow Outlook 2007 down more than that it is now 🙂 For all the…
When all your appointments are gone in Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003, this is probably the result of AutoArchive settings enabled. When you have turned on Auto Archiving, Outlook automatically archives all your calendar items, older than x months. Typically,…