Stand-up Desk Setup

Inspired by this great post and decided to set up my own Stand-Up Desk.

Materials

• Existing IKEA LACK TV unit from living room
• IKEA Galant adjustable A-Legs x4 and 62" base frame
• 4" bolts, nuts and washers x6 from Lowes.com

Old desk Setup

Old Desk Setup

 New Stand-up desk Setup

New Stand-Up Desk (Did not bother to remove the legs from  the TV unit)

Tips: drill the holes for base frame, install the A-legs on frame, then bolt the frame to TV unit.

Missing Start Menu and all desktop item on Vista

Symptom:

• On impacted Vista machine, after logged in, the desktop is black, all desktop items, Windows Start button and tool bar are missing. Only Windows Explorer is open on the screen, and drives and others like control panel were accessible.


• Tried to launch Explorer.exe from Task Manager, but got "C:\windows\explorer.exe application not found" error. Same to all other programs such as regedit.exe or msconfig.exe. Please see this article to get rid of this error.

However, the fix did not bring the missing items back.

• Some have suggest to Kill Explorer.exe and create a new task, Explorer.exe in Task Manager. It did not work for me and it would only bring up another Windows Explorer on the screen.


• At least now I could get into the registry. Google said to check the SHELL, then I went to "HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\ and Click on Winlogon, on the right pane, found out the value of SHELL was C:\PROGRA~3\dsgsdgdsidgw.bat" which obviously a virus or non sense. I changed it to "explorer.exe" and restart. The desktop came back right away.


• Some other clean-ups needed to be done though.

Outlook 2010: The reply of Calendar invite from Secretary went to Executive instead of Secretary

Problem: Secretary has right to send invite from Executive's calendar, but all the responses come back to Executive's inbox which is not desired.

Solution: add secretary to Outlook Delegates of Executive

Sang: Got error of "The Delegates settings were not saved correctly. Unable to activate send-on-behalf-of list. You do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation on this object." while trying to add secretary to the delegates.

MS KB: following this KB, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2593557 to edit the registry has not fixed the problem. Read closely in the Cause section and found out another possible cause, The SELF object does not have the Write Personal Information right on your Active Directory user object. Corrected it and worked!!!!

UT Proforma failed due to FA

Error message when proforma i UT2012: Fixed asset data unavailable for proforma.

Solution: go to client folder in DeprData directory and delete all .L12 files.

Make Xerox Color to print in Black and white by default

We like to make Xerox DocuColor 252 to print Black and White by default on all print job.

I first went to printer IP interface, change the PS in PDL configuraiton to GrayScale in color mode. It did not achive what I wanted.

The better approach is to configure it on the driver of printer server level, and clean up the drivers on client level:

• Go Printer Properties on printer server


• Advanced tab, printing default, make necessary changes, here we set colorwise to Grayscale


• Go to Printing Preferences, change colorwise to Grayscale too


• Open a notepad on print server, print and check the preference of that printer to see if the change maintained


• On Client: Remove all printer drives for that model. then


• On Client: go to  Print Server Properties, remove that printer from Drivers tab and Ports tab


• Re-add the printer driver on client


• Open Notepad on Client and check the printer preferences

Failed to upload 30MB large file to MOSS2007

Found out it's limitation on Windows 2008 at this KB, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925083.
Then follow this article to change the "Max allowed content length" to 1GB. The issue resolved.

Doc cannot be saved in GFR

Doc was open in edit mode in GFR, but the changes were not saved.

Checked the file and found the 'save back to gfr' icon is grayed out.
Solutions:
1. Turn off UAC and reboot
2. Run GFR add in in distribution folder