Josh's Updates: Outlook 2010 Crashes on Startup

Computers & HardwareMy Outlook 2010 kept crashing on start-up.    According to the event logs, was due to faulting module mso.dll with Event ID 1000.   Here's the steps I took to resolve it on win 7 Home Premium.

  1. ran scanpst.exe in C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Office/Office 14/ folder - found some errors in the pst file so I repaired it.   Outlook still didn't load.
  2. Found that I had many Outlook related Windows Updates to run and install.   Did that.  No dice.
  3. What worked: 
    1. Closed Outlook
    2. Cut and pasted the mso.dll file over to the Desktop folder as a temp holding spot
    3. Started Outlook and it reran the Microsoft Office Single image installer.
    4. Let it complete
    5. Started outlook and it finally gave me a handy error that the Exchange plugin kept failing - would I like to disable it?   HELL YES
    6. Voila!!! Outlook started up

Posted by josh on Tuesday, April 12 @ 21:39:43 PDT (259 reads)
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Josh's Updates: PHP include_path not working on Windows

Internet StuffI had added some directories to my include_path in php.ini and was still getting failed to open stream or file or directory not found.   It turns out that include_path should NOT have spaces in between the ; separator and the directory.

For example

Wrong:

include_path=".;D:wampbinphpphp5.2.5pear; D:wampbinphpphp5.2.5includes;

Right:

include_path=".;D:wampbinphpphp5.2.5pear;D:wampbinphpphp5.2.5includes;

Hope this helps someone

Posted by josh on Tuesday, November 30 @ 09:55:17 PST (485 reads)
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Josh's Updates: Apache Slow on Windows Local network

Computers & HardwareSo I was having issues where I was accessing my Window 7 tower that has apache webserver installed.    When accessing localhost on the box it was nice and fast.   It should be for an i7 processor and 6GB of ram.    BUT if I accessed the machine from my laptop within my home network, it was taking a LONG time for apache to return anything.   Here is what I did to troubleshoot:

  1. Pinged my tower from the laptop and response time was 3ms so network speed wasnt the problem.
  2. Created a static html file and pulling it up was still slow so I knew it wasnt PHP or MySQL performance.   had to be DNS, router, or something with Apache.
  3. The first change I made on the server, was to say goodbye to DHCP.   Gave the server a static IP address.
  4. Disabled the IPv6 protocol on the server's network adapter.
  5. Disabled DMZ on the Linksys wireless router since I didnt need it.
VOILA!   Superfast web server response time now.    Hope this helps someone

Posted by josh on Saturday, August 28 @ 10:27:36 PDT (479 reads)
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Josh's Updates: PETA

NewsPeta vs Animals
Via: Online Schools

Posted by josh on Friday, May 14 @ 10:03:19 PDT (464 reads)
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Josh's Updates: Nintendo Wii now cheaper

Games & HobbiesA new low price for the Wii video game console from Nintendo has also recently been announced!

On September 27, 2009, Nintendo released the news that the price for the Wii console was dropped from the original $249.99 to only $199.99!

Nintendo Wii

Posted by josh on Wednesday, September 30 @ 08:47:03 PDT (558 reads)
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