Trouble:

Microsoft Outlook has a feature to block the attachments that it considers unsafe. Although Outlook blocks the attachments but attachment still exist in the e-mail message.

Sometimes when there are important attachments which do not open, you might find yourself in trouble.

Recently we received a problem mail from one of our reader who says that:

whenever I try to open a attachment in outlook, gets a message “Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments”

Let’s see how can you alter the attachment security behavior in outlook to open the specified blocked attachment in mail.

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Trouble:

One of a reader reported us a simple problem on how to open compressed RAR file format when you don’t have WinRAR installed, or some times a user may not know what .rar file mean and which program to use to open .rar file.

This is quite common and simple trouble which can be easily dealt with two type of solutions.

Let’s see what are the two potential fixes to this problem.

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Trouble:

Some word documents do not open on double clicking especially when that document is made by someone else on some other computer with another version of MS word, or some other software.

It happened to that I needed to open an important work related document and I got this error-screen from MS word 2003 and MS word 2007 respectively. It Says

Word was unable to read this document It may be corrupt.

The Office Open XML file cannot be opened because there are problems with contents.

The file is corrupted and cannot be opened

Lets see a very easy and quick way of repairing such documents.

continue reading "How To Repair Corrupt Word Documents"

Trouble:

Some viruses corrupt the Norton Anti-virus itself sometimes, so much so that the anti-virus stops working, and you can not uninstall Norton Anti-virus.

If you try to Install any other anti-virus program, it will not install and ask you to first un-install the existing norton anti-virus. We have seen this problem ourselves as well as received a mail from one of our readers Susheel saying:

whenever I try to uninstall Norton Anti-virus from the add remove program screen I get a warning pop up that says “fatal error during installation”. It reverses what work it has done and the program is still there. The major annoyance with this program is that whenever I right click on a file or icon, I get a loading task of symantec antivirus saying “please wait while windows configures symantec antivirus” and it begins looking for the source directory, which as I said no longer exists…so I hit cancel and I get an error message reading “error 1706: no valid source could be found for product symatec antivirus.”

Don’t scratch your hair, there is a fix to every trouble , so there is a simple fix for this problem as well, read on.

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Trouble:

Let me ask you a question

Are you facing any problem with your USB pen drive ?

If the answer is yes, the you are not alone. There are millions of users of USB drives or pen drives in the world today and it has become one of the most used data storage device.

Over the past few months we have written about a lots of troubles of USB Pen drives and their solutions. Let us summarize top 10 useful posts for your quick reference.

Top 10 USB drive / pen drive related problems and fixes:

Lets see a short summary of each problem and the fix:

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