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Outlook signature ActiveX Error

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

When Outlook gives you a activex security error when opening a new email try this:

Reset the restricted access websites in IE to the default.

http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=45944&enterthread=y

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Unable to install DVD/CD Driver Windows

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

If your having problems installing your DVD or CD drive check this instructions:

Check in “Device Manager” if your drive is shown with a “yellow !”. If not, this is no solution for you.

Solution for following errors:

Error message 1

The device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device (Code 31).

Error message 2

A driver for this device was not required, and has been disabled (Code 32 or Code 31).

Error message 3

Your registry might be corrupted. (Code 19)
You receive an “error code 39″ error message.
A message that resembles the following appears in the notification area:

Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

Step 1: Start Registry Editor

Start Registry Editor.

Step 2: Delete the UpperFilters registry entry

1. In Registry Editor, expand My Computer, and then expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
2. Expand SYSTEM, and then expand CurrentControlSet.
3. Expand Control, and then expand Class.
4. Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
5. In the details pane of Registry Editor, on the right side, click UpperFilters.

Note You may also see an UpperFilters.bak registry entry. You do not have to remove that entry. Click UpperFilters only.

• If you see the UpperFilters registry entry in the details pane of Registry Editor, go to step 6.
• If you do not see the UpperFilters registry entry, you still might have to remove the LowerFilters registry entry. To do this, go to “Step 3: Delete the LowerFilters registry entry.”
6. On the Edit menu, click Delete.
7. Click Yes when you receive the following message:

Are you sure you want to delete this value?

The UpperFilters registry entry is removed.

Step 3: Delete the LowerFilters registry entry

1. In the details pane of Registry Editor, on the right side, click LowerFilters.

Note You might see a LowerFilters.bak registry entry. You do not have to remove that entry. Click LowerFilters only.

If you do not see the LowerFilters registry entry, unfortunately this content is unable to help you any more. Go to the “Next Steps” section for information about how you can find more solutions or more help on the Microsoft Web site.
2. On the Edit menu, click Delete.
3. Click Yes when you receive the following message:

Are you sure you want to delete this value?

The LowerFilters registry entry is removed.
4. Exit Registry Editor.

Step 4: Restart your computer

Source:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

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Multiple mouse cursors on a Windows Desktop

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Ever thought of two mouse cursors at the same time? After googling I found a SDK from Microsoft, to make multi mouse available WITHIN your own application. I was wondering if this can be done system width.

The answer is YES!

There’s an open source project named CPNMouse (kinda outdated, last update was in 2004) but it works!

Download the custom driver (make sure you have the binary) from this website.

Select your mouse in device manager, and update the driver to the downloaded on. Instructions

If windows tells you there is no supported hardware in this driver follow these instructions (easy to fix!):

Windows 2000/XP/2003
  1. Open Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Information. If this is not available on your computer, you may also be able to use BusHound to obtain the information.
  2. In this program select Components -> Input -> Pointing Devices
  3. The information in under PNP Device Id is what you need. It is in the form USB\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY\<something>
  4. You need the numbers XXXX and YYYY
  5. You must add a line to cpnmouse.inf. The line is “%CPNGroup.DeviceDesc1% = usbinst, HID\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY“, where XXXX and YYYY are the numbers found earlier. You should add the line just after the other lines looking just like it
  6. If you send the numbers to me, I will add them to the distribution

After you successfully installed this driver (on both mouses!) download and run the ordinary-binary application. This starts two mouse pointers witch can move separated.

It works, but the scroll function is lost (after the application is starts, not by installing the driver).

Try it yourself ;-)

PS: It’s working on Windows XP SP3

Extra link:

Funny little multi mouse game:

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html

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