how to solve live messenger error 1601

Do you cant install live messenger or remove existing one to install new version? displaying error 1601, well you can solve this error by unregistering and re-registering the Windows Installer. you can try windows installer cleaner utility to fixed this problem, but if it fails try below, this will works sure..

• Click start > run
  
• Type msiexec /unregister and click ok
• This will unregister windows installer

Now re-register

• Click start > run
• Type msiexec /regserver and click ok
• This will register windows installer

Now start your live messenger installation , your problem will be fixed.

how to solve "pinter access denied" error vista

When you try to connect shared network printer to windows vista sometimes it displayed "Access is Denied" error message. but you can access network shared files and folders, and you cant connect shared printer to the system. to overcome this issue you can add the shared printer as a local printer. follow these steps.

• Go to the control panel
• Double click printers icon
• Now click on add a printer
• Click on add a local Printer
• Choose Create a New Port with port type of Local Port from the drop down menu , then click Next
• In the Port Name box type the path to the printer you wish to connect to and click ok , (ex-\\computer name\printer name)
• In the Install Printer Driver screen, select your printer from the list or choose Have Disk and specify drivers to install printer
• Newly installed should be in the printers window
• Test the printer by using test print

Now you should now be able to print from Windows Vista to this networked shared printer

registry location for internet explorer homepage

You can always set your default homepage for your internet explorer by right clicking the internet explorer, and click properties, in the general tab (under home page) you can set your home page as you wish, but do you know where is the registry location for this? here is the location.

• Open registry editor
• Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
• In the right side find the key Start Page and double click to open it
• Now under value data you can see the default homepage set by you
• If you want you can change the default homepage in here, just type the URL you want to use click ok to apply value data.
  

how to restrict control panel applets

There are several restrictions you can make to the Control Panel, for example we take display control panel, here is how to restrict display control panel.

• Open registry editor
• Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
• Create a new key under policies called System
• Now add new DWORD value in system and name it as NoDispCPL
  
• Now change the value data to 1
• Exit registry editor and restart pc
  

Here is some additional control panel applets you can restrict

• NoDispBackgroundPage - Hide Background Page
• NoDispScrSavPage - Hide Screen Saver Page
• NoDispAppearancePage - Hide Appearance Page
• NoDispSettingsPage - Hide Settings Page
• NoSecCPL - Disable Password Control Panel
• NoPwdPage - Hide Password Change Page
• NoVirtMemPage - Hide Virtual Memory Button
• NoFileSysPage - Hide File System Button
• NoConfigPage - Hide Hardware Profiles Page
• NoDevMgrPage - Hide Device Manager Page
• NoProfilePage - Hide User Profiles Page
• NoAdminPage - Hide Remote Administration Page

Note - to create restrictions, add new DWORD values (in system key) name the DWORD values properly (ex-NoConfigPage , NoAdminPage , ....) and change the value data to 1. you can always disable restrictions by changing value data to 0 or deleting the key

how to prevent changes to file associations

You can prevent users from changing associations in folder options (under file types tab) follow these steps.

• Open registry editor
• Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
• In the right side, create new DWORD value and named it as NoFileAssociate
• Double click to open the key and enter value data as 1
• Restart the pc to changes go into effect