Archive for the ‘windows’ Category

Error encountered while installing Microsoft Office

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

If you encounter an error while installing Microsoft Office, then you need to do the following steps to resolve it. From an administrator account, do the following:

  1. start -> run -> Type “msconfig” -> click on ok
  2. Check the box selective startup
  3. Under selective start up uncheck the 1,2 and the 4 options
  4. Click on the services tab
  5. Check hide all microsoft services
  6. Click on disable all
  7. Click on apply and ok
  8. When asked, restart the computer
  9. Wait for restart to complete and then log on to administrator account
  10. Start -> Run -> Type “msiexec.exe /unregister” ->  click on ok
  11. Start -> run -> Type “msiexec.exe /regserver” -> click on ok
  12. Now insert the disc and install the office software

Hope this helps you in case if you encountered an error while installing Microsoft office.

Open ODT file in Microsoft Word 2007/2003

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Many times you may have to open the openoffice documents (.odt) in microsoft office. To do so, you will have to install the SUN ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office and then you would be able to open the open officie documents in microsoft office.

- Install Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office.
- Open ODT document using File > Open, or by double-clicking the ODT file and when prompted for the application to open it with, choose Word.

PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library php_openssl.dll

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

You might get the error: “PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library php_openssl.dll. The operating system cannot run %1“, when you are trying to start the apache server in the error.log file.

Basically what this error is trying to mention that there is an issue with your php_openssl.dll and a possible mismatch with other depending libraries. To resolve this, follow the below steps:

1. Rename ’ssleay32.dll’ and ‘libeay32.dll’ in c:\windows\system32 to ’ssleay32.dll.old’ and ‘libeay32.dll.old’ respectively.

2. Copy ’ssleay32.dll’ and ‘libeay32.dll’ from your PHP folder to the system32.

3. Restart the apache webserver.

This should get your problem sorted!!

Not enough storage is available to complete this operation Yahoo Messenger

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Recently, I started to get this error message whenever I tried to use IM in yahoo messenger. As soon as I click on the contact to open the Instant Messenger, an error will popup with message that the “Not enough storage is available to complete this operation“. Here’s a screenshot of that error.

Yahoo Error Message

Yahoo Error Message

To fix this issue, you will need to reset your Internet Explorer settings and register the libraries again. Following are the steps to do so:

1. Exit Yahoo! Messenger. Right-click the tray icon and select “Exit.”
2. On your keyboard, press <Windows> + <R> to open the “Run” command.
3. Type in “inetcpl.cpl” and press Enter. This opens Internet Properties.
4. Select the “Advanced” tab, then click the “Reset…” button.
5. In the “Reset Internet Explorer Settings” dialog box, click the “Reset” button.
6. When the reset is complete, click “Close.”
7. Click the “Security” tab, then select “Trusted Sites.”
8. Click the “Sites” button.
9. Uncheck “Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone.”
10. In the “Add this website to the zone” field, copy and paste the following text:
*://*.yahoo.com/*

11. Click “Add,” then click “Close.”
12. Click “OK.”

Next, please download and install the latest version of Java Runtime Environment:

- http://java.sun.com/getjava/

Last, please register the Java and Windows Script installations:

1. On your keyboard, press <Windows> + <R> to open the “Run” command.
2. Type in “cmd” and click “OK.” This opens a Command Prompt.
3. Copy and paste each of the following commands into the Command Prompt. Press <Enter> on your keyboard after pasting each command.

regsvr32 vbscript.dll /s

regsvr32 jscript.dll /s

regsvr32 nusrmgr.cpl /s

regsvr32 mshtml.dll /s

regsvr32 themeui.dll /s

Restart your computer and your problem will be resolved now!!