Saturday, September 24, 2011

backup and restore firefox bookmarks

in certain cases (before windows reinstall) you might want to backup your existing long list of (like mine) bookmarks in firefox, this is really simple to do & method as follows.(used firefox 6.0.2 for description)

  • open firefox browser
  • in menu, click bookmarks & click " show all bookmarks "
  • in the opened window (called " library ") you can see there is a drop down menu named " import and backup "
  • click in the menu and select appropriate action for you, if you want to backup > select location & type a name to identify backup file (normally it takes " bookmarks-current year-month-date " as a file name) and click save.
  • you can reverse the same process to restore bookmarks, click " import and backup " point to restore > click " choose file " > specify the saved file and click open, done.

shutdown remote server through remote desktop

scenario like this, server running win 2003 R2 with terminal server (located at head office), stores located at remote location, stores manager wants to access head office server to operate ERP software, end of the day he wants to shutdown head office server using remote desktop (because he is last person to use ERP software) but when he try to shutdown remote server, then he realize there is no option to shutdown server, because it isn't  available.

above is real world problem, (i personally had this one & find the solution) details as follows.

inorder to do things right, you have to do some configurations in server, follow these steps

  • log in to the server

  • open " group policy " (start > run > type gpedit.msc & press enter
  • under " computer configuration " navigate to windows settings > security settings > local policies > user right assignment
  • in the right side look for the " shutdown the system " (look at the bottom)
  • double click to open
  • now add the remote user account to the list, (if stores manager uses " stores " user account to login to the server, add that account to the list.)
  • click apply & ok
  • now you have to do is restart server or update group policy without restart
Note - to update gruop policy without restart, click start > run > type  cmd & press enter > type " gpupdate /force" & press enter, done.

after complete above steps successfully , the specified user account (our stores manager) can shutdown remote server using his remote desktop.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

continues file copy even closing laptop lid (xp)

First of all we need to make some changes in control panel to do this, because we all know normally when you close laptop lid (screen) it goes for sleep mode, we need to stop this for continues file copy, to do this follow these steps.

  • Go to control panel 
  • Double click "power option"
  • Click advanced

  • Now under "power buttons" section, you can see "when i close the lid of my portable computer"
  • In there drop down menu select "do nothing"
  • Click apply and OK
Now copy some large files to network drive or external hard disk & close laptop lid, note that laptop isn't go for sleep mode, it just continue with the work. now you can copy files, encode movies, copy DVD & Cd's , download torrents without go in to sleep mode.

Friday, February 18, 2011

cant access network share folders (Not enough server storage is available to process this command)

when you try to access shared folders though the network, sometime you might receive the following error.
(Not enough server storage is available to process this command)
to solve this problem you have to modify some registry settings, to do that follow these steps.

  • click start > click run> type regedit, and then click ok to open registry editor
  • navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Services\ LanmanServer \Parameters
  • in the right pane check for a IRPStackSize dword value
  • if it is not there you have to create new dword value. to do that right click blank area of the right pane > point to new > click DWORD value
  • now rename the value name as IRPStackSize
  • now double click IRPStackSize , in the value data box type 15 (which is the dafault value)
Note - It is recommended that you increase the value by 3, for example if value 15 not worked, you can try for value 18

after you changed value, restart your pc and try to access share folders on the network, it should work now.

Monday, February 7, 2011

excel 2007 files cant open when double click

this is a strange problem, when you double click previously saved excel files nothing happens, but you start start excel 2007 program from start menu, then try to open the saved files using file > open files can open, to fix this problem follow these steps.

  • open excel 2007 (using start menu)
  • go to tools > options > general. uncheck "ignore other apps"
  • now close excel program
  • now click start > run then type excel.exe /unregserver and click to unregister excel
  • then again click start > run type excel.exe /regserver and click to re-register excel
  • now double click saved excel files, it should work normally