Outlook 2010 QAT file not found error – unable to change QAT

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 … cannot change my Outlook 2010 Quick Access Toolbar.  When I try to do so, I get an error message “the file does not exist.”  A web search indicated that the fix is to delete the access.officeUI file to force Outlook to create a new one.  However, I do not find any such file … It turns out that this was due to a missing sound file, if you can believe it. I was able to fix this by unchecking the “Play reminder sound:” in the Advanced section under Outlook Files/Options.

  • Outlook / File / Options / Advanced /
  • uncheck Play reminder sound
  • On QAT, right click and Customize Quick Access Toolbar
    • Choose Macros from Choose commands
      • Add
      • Press OK which should now save correctly.

As it turns out the file combo box was empty. This happened during upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as the Office14 folder moved to Program Files/Office14.

Posted in: Debugging, HowTo, PC, Settings, Windows

How to fix no sound from YouTube in Google Chrome

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Source

I recently had a problem where I could not get any sound to play when I was watching YouTube videos or playing flash games in Google Chrome. Other browsers, like FireFox and Opera worked fine. The cause of this bug comes from the newest flash player, version 11.3. This bug was really annoying because I had tried many solutions, but none had worked until I tried disabling all, but one of the flash player plugins.

I noticed that I had 3 different flash player plugins running in Google Chrome and thought that 1 should be enough. So I decided to disable 2 of the flash player plugins and leave one running and it worked! I had fixed my issue with no sound from Google Chrome when watching YouTube videos.

Here’s how I did it:

  1. Open a new tab and navigate to chrome://plugins/
  2. At the top right, click on +Details
  3. Scroll down until you see Flash
  4. Disable all the flash player plugins, but the one with the directory Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32_11_3_300_268.dll
  5. Open a new tab and go to YouTube
  6. Watch a video and you should be able to hear sound
  7. Enjoy
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Posted in: Debugging, Setup

Internet Explorer Settings

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1. Tools > Internet Options > Locate the Settings button under Tabs in the General tab of the configuration window.
UNCHECK the option “Show previews for individual tabs in the taskbar” to disable the feature in the Internet Explorer web browser.

2. Tools > Internet Options > Tabs > Tab Settings
CHOOSE – When a new tab is opened — Open Your First Homepage

 

Posted in: Debugging, PC

Capture VCR Video and convert to DVD

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Not tested yet…

Download the following applications.

  1. VirtualDub
  2. Huffyuv

We also want to open the following documentation.

  1. Capturing & DVD encoding guide
Setup
  1. I set the volume by using the V-olume meter and using the direct sound inputs rather than the sound card adapter (that is also effected by the master volume control)
  2. I changed the original settings in VirtualDub to use the huffyuv compression. That really helped in reducing the output file size.
  3. Here's a VB guide with some settings
Posted in: Debugging, Video

Outlook – paste HTML content changes BR to P etc.

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Here's how to fix the "double-space" problem caused by e.g. pasting from the Web or SSMS or other color coder source.
 
Simply paste into the Outlook HTML body; reselect it; change to bulleted list; turn off the bulleted list. That's it!
  This

SET ANSI_NULLS ON

GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF

GO

  becomes

SET ANSI_NULLS ON

GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF

GO

 
 
As a bonus to remove most of the other formatting, highlight it; press Ctrl-Space. 
Becomes:
 
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
 
Presto magic. 
Posted in: Debugging