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Geovision 800 GV-AView App on new Samsung S8+ showing only "Loading"

No video Streaming, stuck at "Loading". Solution via online support page(top right corner of page "Enter Live Chat"), Christine: close GV main software. Go to C:\GV-800\WebTemp and delete all jpg & gif files (do not worry about its subfolders such … Continue reading →

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Excel 2016 document showing blank but LibreOffice was able to show content right away

Macro? Privacy? Solution: When opening in Excel, go to View > Unhide. Done.

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Default Sign In Account for Windows 10

In this case, Windows 10 might not remember the last login account, so it would default to a specific account, where there are more than 1 windows login account. NetPlWiz is the solution: run netplwiz check User Must Enter a … Continue reading →

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Mail Merge: Change Sender's Email Address & Include Attachment

There appears to be no such straight forward solution from Microsoft. There are third party software/plugins that do that and they are not free, not to mention some are complicated to use. The idea with Mail Merge is not just … Continue reading →

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How to Unblock Unsafe Attachments in Microsoft Outlook

So I got this error when a developer was emailing me a js file: "Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments…" Solution (from: sitepoint): 1. Close Outlook 2. Run regedit.exe Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOfficeXX.XOutlookSecurity Where XX.X indicates your version … Continue reading →

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VSTO: Doing MS Office in Visual Studio

This is fun. First it was ClickOnce, where you can have setup program that updates itself when necessary on every run. Now, VSTO beats document level macro. Sample reference: 1. To create right click menu in Word in VSTO: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd554969(v=vs.140).aspx … Continue reading →

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MS Word issues: No Margin, error 4605 for template add-in installation, error 4068

No add-in in Word 2013. Make sure to enabled macro trust in Options. To avoid error 4605 during add-in install: Options>General>Unchecked "Open e-mail attachments and other uneditable files in reading view" If Margin keeps showing zero: Options>Display>Checked "Show white space … Continue reading →

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NetSpot - A good freeware for Wifi Analysis

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Interesting Outlook tricks: Unusual Junk Mail handling

It appears that one can actually disable the junk mail completely...rather than the popularly acclaimed that you couldn't touch some built-in filtering mechanism in Outlook. This is done at registry level. There's also the case where junk manager doesn't work … Continue reading →

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Outlook 2016/365 Search Problem: Something Went Wrong and Your Search Couldn't be Completed

This is Indexing problem. Type Indexing Options. Get Indexing running. If not, Run in services.msc>Windows Search, if can't, be sure to start with Administrator's privilege, if not, use command "runas /user:<computername>\administrator cmd" If still can't start Windows Search in services, … Continue reading →

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