The error of “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Mapi32.dll is corrupt or the wrong version. This could have been caused by installing other messaging software. Please re-install office.” is a painful reminder that not all software pieces work well together. Quick fix:
1.) Close outlook
2.) Navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033
3.) Rename MSMAPI32.DLL to MSMAPI32.DLL.OLD
4.) Reopen outlook – outlook should then “fix” this dll file
I know, I know… why would anyone still be using Windows 2000? You’d be surprised at that answer. At my place of business, all of our servers are Windows 2003 or Linux based with the exception of one key group: the Cisco Call Managers group.
DST changed a year or so ago, and all major operating systems were already patched by then. Unfortunately, Microsoft has labeled Windows 2000 under its EOL (end of life) software suite. Unless there’s a major security patch, all hot fixes are only for paying customers.
But Microsoft has a program called “TZEDIT.EXE” (found here) that allows you to manually edit the Time Zone configuration files.
1.) download the TZEDIT.EXE application
2.) Run the application, it will extract to C:\program files\tzedit
3.) Run the application in the \tzedit folder
4.) Click on your time zone and then hit the Edit button
5.) Starts 2nd Sunday of March @ 2 AM, Ends 1st Sunday of November @ 2 AM
6.) Now, double click on your time clock/calendar
7.) Select a different time zone and hit apply
8.) Select your edited time zone and hit apply
9.) All set!
Usually when you receive this error it means your HD is going bad. If your computer keeps rebooting and then asks to start in safe mode, that’s a good sign. Keep hitting the usual F8 button at startup to deselect the option of reboot on system failure. We don’t like that option anyway. Endless loops of reboots help no one.
If then on the giant blue screen of death you see this message:
“STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME”, then try this simple repair step before calling it a day.
1.) Put in your Windows XP CD
2.) Boot off your Windows XP CD (usually hit F12 to bring up the boot menu)
3.) When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press the “R” key to start the recovery console
4.) If you’re prompted, enter the administrator password (on Home edition it’s usually blank)
5.) At the command prompt type “chkdsk /r” and press enter – this will find and repair most issues found
6.) After Checkdisk has finished running, you can type “exit” and hit enter to reboot the machine
I had a fellow employee at my work complain that every now and then his IE would crash. After several failed attempts to figure out when this was happening (and why), he finally told me it was an error with Flash. The error is as follows:
So I was looking around trying to figure out why this was happening. I know – the easiest way to find out how to stop it would be to have the fellow employee let me know what site he was at when it was happening. But I digress, here’s how I “fixed” it.
1.) Go to \windows\system32\macromed\flash\
2.) Duplicate flash9b.ocx (Copy/Paste)
3.) Rename the file flash9b.ocx to flash9b.ocx.old
4.) Rename the file Copy of flash9b.ocx to flash9b.ocx
5.) Duplicate flash9b.ocx (Copy/Paste)
6.) Rename flash.ocx to flash.ocx.old
7.) Rename the file Copy of flash9b.ocx to flash.ocx
8.) Duplicate flash9b.ocx (Copy/Paste)
9.) Rename the file Copy of flash9b.ocx to flash9.ocx
You will need to close out of all active IE windows to make the changes stick. You may also need to reboot just to be sure. This seems to only affect flash 9b.ocx files when the system also has ATI video drivers.
Since I’m being lazy this post is mostly for me. Here’s a good starting place:
Egghelp.org
After you’ve downloaded the tar.gz file, uploaded it to your server, and pretty much gone to ./configure, then come back here.
If you can go to ./configure and everything runs peachy, you’re a better system setup guy than I am. Otherwise Eggdrop requires TCL to be installed and compiled (you should get some sort of compiler error saying it can’t create executables if not installed).
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install tcl8.4
apt-get install tcl8.4-dev
That’s it. Go and run that ./configure again.
Unless you’re on Ubuntu 14.04…
./configure --with-tclinc=/usr/include/tcl8.6/tcl.h --with-tcllib=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtcl8.6.so
I had just finished installing Ubuntu 7.10 on a virtual machine. This virtual machine had no active connection to the internet (which is why this actually happened).
After install, I tried to run the software update service. It said that there were no updates to install. I tried to apt-get install ssh and that failed too. So I tried apt-get update. No updates. Hmmm.
It turns out that if there is no active connection, Ubuntu will comment out all the sources for software in the sources.list file. You can find it here:
cd /etc/apt
nano sources.list
uncomment some of the repositories and save the file
apt-get update
Windows updates were failing to install on a computer. Here’s the steps I did to correct the issue:
1.) Reboot. This didn’t do anything but waste 4 minutes of time.
2.) Erase C:\WINDOWS\system32\SoftwareDistribution folder. Redownloaded Update Files but didn’t help.
3.) Download the Windows WGA and try to install. Failed on installation.
4.) Start off the Windows Disk and do a repair. Ended up in the same boat as before, but the computer starts up quicker now.
5.) Re-Register DLL files for windows update. This ended up working.
How to register DLL files:
1.) Open the command line (Start >> Run >> CMD)
2.) regsvr32 wuapi.dll, regsrv32 wuaueng.dll, regsrv32 wuaueng1.dll, regsrv32 wucltui.dll, regsrv32 wups.dll, regsrv32 wups2.dll, regsvr32 wuweb.dll
3.) Reopen the Windows Update window and try to update again
[edit: I had “regsrv32” instead of “regsvr32”. This has been fixed.]