Posts Tagged Vista

If you are running Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 2008 64-bit with Microsoft office Outlook 2007 and click on an Adobe Acrobat PDF attachment in the preview screen you will get the message
This file can be previewed because of an error with the following previewer:
PDF Preview Handler for Vista message

Open RegEdit and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}
There should [...]

I just ran up a new Vista notebook. After running updates which loaded Internet explorer 8, it would not open at all.  To fix it I opened IE8 without add-ons and then disabled all add-ons.
Not sure which one was causing the issue but you generally don’t need them all anyway. To open IE8 without add-ons
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The right way and the wrong way of deleting user profiles from a machine.
Whenever a user logs onto a Windows computer, a user profile folder is created for that user under C:\Documents and Settings. If you want to delete any of these user profiles, don’t simply delete the C:\Documents and Settings\user_name folder for that user [...]