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Up until a few moments ago, I was unable to preview PDF files in emails in Outlook using Windows 7 64bit.
The problem is that Adobe have not updated their installer of Adobe PDF reader to allow the correct values to be set in the registry.
However, there is a fix.
I came across this:
http://www.pretentiousname.com/adobe_pdf_x64_fix/index.html
It worked great!
Tags: outlook, windows 7I’m sure anyone that’s searched for solutions in Google, has fallen victim to the search engine reuslt pollution Experts Exchange employs…
They always seem to title their results, with EXACTLY what you are looking for.
When you click on it, you’re told that to view the solution, you need to sign up. Which costs money…
Sure, there is a free trial available… but who really wants that?
Well… the answers are indeed, freely available.
This is a condition of appearing in Google search results.
However, a slight black-hat trick is, that they’re not visible to Joe Public. Only to search engines…
You can fool the site into thinking you are a search engine, by simply copying the full experts-exchange URL from your browser, for example:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Development/MS-SQL-Server/Q_22634999.html
And pasting that into the Google search box:
The first search result, will be a link to that URL, via Google.
Click that, and it will show you the answers! Nothing illegal, just exposing Experts Exchange black hat techniques 
I ran into a problem with a Transactional Publication today.
I’d moved the database from old hardware, to newer hardware, and in the process, restored the SQL 2000 database onto SQL 2008 (running in SQL 2000 compatibility mode)
I’d re-created the publication, and initialized it.
After about half an hour, I checked the Replication Monitor, and noticed that it said:
Performance : Critical
Unfortunately, I don’t have a screenshot 
Latency was also somewhere in the mid 40’s
I noticed that my recovery mode was FULL.
I changed this to BULK LOGGED, re-initialized replication, and this dramatically reduced the latency – down to 0.0 in fact!
Tags: SQL replicationAfter creating a new Windows XP Virtual Machine, on VMWare Server, I noticed it had no network adapter.
It was an “unknown device” in Device Manager!
I installed VMWare tools, to no avail.
After painstaikingly thrashing about with my settings in VMWare Server, I took a look at my vmx file (located in the same directory as my virtual hard disks etc…)
It appears I had set the guest OS as Windows XP x64, when in actual fact, I had installed x32 version.
I changed this in my vmx file, and after reading this forum thread, deleted the following line:
ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″
Voila! It worked!
Tags: vmwareAfter creating a new Windows XP Virtual Machine, on VMWare Server, I noticed it had no network adapter.
It was an “unknown device” in Device Manager!
I installed VMWare tools, to no avail.
After painstaikingly thrashing about with my settings in VMWare Server, I took a look at my vmx file (located in the same directory as my virtual hard disks etc…)
It appears I had set the guest OS as Windows XP x64, when in actual fact, I had installed x32 version.
I changed this in my vmx file, and after reading this forum thread, deleted the following line:
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
Voila! It worked!
Tags: vmware
