Restoring XP from DOS

1. Restart your computer, and then press F8 during the initial startup to
start your computer in Safe Mode with a command prompt.

2. Log on to your computer with an administrator account or with an
account that has administrator credentials.

3. Type the following command at a command prompt, and then press ENTER:
%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

4. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen to restore your
computer to an earlier state.

Good Luck..

Most frequent Outlook Problems.

Here are some issues with outlook

1. when u click send/Receive the progress will stop showing the receving in progress.
sol. a.check in he pc that you are having the ESET smart security antivirus, if yes remove it and try i will work. If solved try using only ESET Nod 32 antivirus.
b. Ask the Admin to reset the account and try again, this may also solve your problem.

2. when you try Send/Receive outlook will prompt you to give password again and again even you type the correct pass. even you try to delete and put new account.
sol. Your account's pop3 services may be disabled or stopped. contact Admin.

3.when u send any mail the message will be stopped in outbox and gives "send/receive error" message even you have good internet and mail server is working.
sol. for this the address book have error so update the address book on that outlook client or type the recipients address manually.

4. You receive blank messages

Sol.Disable Outlook integration or email scanning feature of your anti-virus or security program.

5. Outlook is crashing

sol.Disable add-ins. If you have Adobe Acrobat 6 installed, disable it's add-in first. SnagIt's addin will also crash Outlook. If Outlook crashes when you attempt to disable the addins, you'll need to edit the registry. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins and change the load behavior for Acrobat, SnagIt or other non-Microsoft add-ins to 0.

6. Sometimes when composing a mail, typing does not insert characters into the body of the message. Clicking the body also does not work.

sol.Click on the To, CC, or Subject line and then click back into the body of the message.

USB Flash Error

when im connecting flash to system its showing windows protection error

"STOP 0x0000001E" Error Message During Windows Setup

Friends

When you run Windows XP Setup, you may receive an error message similar to the following:

STOP: 0x0000001E (0x80000003, 0xBFC0304, 0x0000000, 0x0000001)
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This behavior can occur if you restart your computer during or after the Windows Setup process, and if any of the following conditions are true:
1.There is insufficient disk space on the drive on which you installed Windows.
2.There is an outdated or incompatible third-party driver (or drivers) installed on your computer -- for example a faulty video driver.
3.There are system BIOS incompatibilities.

Method 1: Free Up Disk Space
Make sure that the disk on which you installed Windows has sufficient free disk space, or reinstall Windows to a disk with sufficient free space.

Method 2: Disable or Remove the Third-Party Driver
If the STOP 0x1E error message lists a driver by name, disable or remove that driver.

Batch File for Clearing Temporary files

Friends, you can clear the temp folder from windows with this batch file,

Just copy this into a notepad and goto file menu select saveas, give the any name with extension .bat

Just run this.

@echo off
del /Q c:\WINDOWS\Temp
cd\\
cd C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\
rmdir /S/Q Temp
echo Deleting Files
echo File Deleted
mkdir Temp
exit

Internet Account

Q: Internet not working.
Modem working good. Network good. Can ping the gateway successfully

Ans: Internet Account is expired

Quick Shutdown / Restart

Some times the system take long time to shutdown so for that we can use command line messages to make it fast

you can run this commands on Run prompt or in dos.

For a shortcut to RESTART Windows XP:
SHUTDOWN -r -t 00 (-r = Restart, -t = mentioning time 01= seconds)

For a shortcut to SHUT DOWN Windows XP:
SHUTDOWN -s -t 00

Normally these will work in any OS of windows.

Outlook Send/Receive Error

When you send a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) mail message by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with a Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) account, you may receive the following error message, and the mail message may remain in the Outbox:

'Sending and Receiving' reported error (0x8004210B) : 'The operation timed out waiting for a response from the sending (SMTP) server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).

Solution : Download This mentioned fix from microsoft site to solve this problem

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307841/EN-US/

Ramazan Bubarak

Dear all

Wishing you and your family
the blessings of Ramadan.
.
Ramadan Mubarak !!

Antivirus

Hello friends,

You can choose ESET NOD Antivirus as your antivirus,which is licenced by our Company.

please avoid installing trail versions on your PCs which may effect the performance and problems to the user and the Support also.

For getting the antivirus contact me shaikrafi@jeddahshipyard.com or you can ask any of our system admin to help you in this regard.

Thanks for your co-Operation.