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May
06

Word couldn’t send mail because of MAPI failure: “Operation not Supported”

Posted under MS Outlook, Software

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

I was unable to email documents, excel files, etc from within Microsoft Office using the File, Send to option that usually sends via Microsoft Outlook. I received the error “word couldn’t send mail because of MAPI failure: “Operation not Supported” “.

You may also receive “General mail failure. Quit Microsoft Office Excel, restart the mail sytem, and try again”.

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

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Apr
04

How to turn off the google auto suggest feature

Posted under Uncategorized

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

Google has recently changed the default search settings which automatically suggests keywords on your behalf.  This new feature is not to everyone’s taste and can be turned off as follows;

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Mar
23

Disk Space Full – C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\

Posted under Exchange, IIS, MS Outlook, Servers

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

I discovered that my Small Business Server (2003) was extremely very slow to respond to basic tasks.  Printers were not working,  browsing files and folders was slow and users were complaining of  overall speed issues. On further inspection, I learned that C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\ folder had over 6gb of logfiles. The question was, could I delete these files and more importantly, can I prevent this from reocurring?

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

 
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Mar
13

Orainst.exe has encountered a problem, the information you were working on might be lost

Posted under Coding, Databases, Software

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

When trying to install Oracle 6i Forms and reports, I receive the error ‘Orainst.exe has encountered a problem, the information you were working on might be lost’.

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It also says that the file ‘oibknd32.dll2 is the cause. 

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The solution is as follows;

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Mar
03

Foxpro Database error; Position is off the screen

Posted under Coding, Software

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

When using a Foxpro database, I received the following error; Position is off the screen. After this, the application would terminate unexpectedly.

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

 
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Feb
27

How to move Exchange databases and logs in Exchange Server 2003

Posted under Exchange

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

The Server disk capcity on partition C: was full due to a build up of  exchange log files.

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The solution and description to this error is set out below;

 
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Feb
20

Microsoft Exchange POP3 Service Stuck on ‘Starting’ State

Posted under Exchange, MS Outlook

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

The Microsoft Exchange POP3 service on Windows Server 2003 was stuck in an infinite state of  ”Starting” status after I had tried to manually restart it . After this, it would not respond to “net start” or “net stop” and I was also unable to control it from the services control panel.

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Feb
10

MS Access Error-You Do Not Have The Necessary Permission

Posted under Software

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

After upgrading one of my machines to Office 2007, I could not open an access database file that was shared over the network.

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

 
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Jan
28

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade – ‘could not initiate maintenance mode’

Posted under Coding, Dreamweaver

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

I was trying to enable and test the plugin for wordpress that allows me to perform an automatic upgrade when I received the error ‘could not initiate maintenance mode’.

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Jan
28

Microsoft Outlook is slow to open upon Startup

Posted under MS Outlook, Software

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

When I try to open Microsoft Outlook, it takes 2-3 minutes to open. It will also take a few minutes to update the folders.

The solution and description to this error is set out below; 

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