After applying Windows 10’s May 2017 Creators update, I found that my Adobe photoshop element’s menu bar has disappeared, and menu items were blank. Adobe was good enough to publish an unofficial fix: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2357293 Apply the following registry value, follow by a reboot. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\GRE_Initialize] “DisableFontBootCache”=dword:00000001
AMD/ATI Catalyst Software – previous ver
After experiencing overheating problem with Windows 10 on my HP DV7 4131sa laptop, I had to roll back to Windows 7. I was getting the infamous “black screen” problem. After much research I had a hard time trying to locate older version of AMD Catalyst software. Eventually I found it here myself http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous?os=Windows%207%20-%2064
USB hidden drivers removal
General USB problems Remove all USB devices and cables Click on start orb, Type Advanced System settings in the search box and click to go there. Click on Advanced tab, Click on Enviroment Variables. Under the window System variables click on New. Type “devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices” (without the “) as the variable name and type 1 […]
HP ProLiant DL380 G7 and Windows Server ...
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be on site to play with a HP ProLiant DL380 G7 rack server. The server was souped up with 2 x Xeon processors (giving total of 16 cores!) 64GB ECC RAM 8 x 142GB SAS Hard disk, running Raid 50 4 x 1Gb NIC iLO3 remote control The reason […]
Sage Line 50 ODBC driver – Manual instal
NOTE [26 OCT 2010]: The following article will teach you how to extract a Sage ODBC driver from a PC with Sage installed, and then install the extracted driver onto another PC without using the installation CD. For Windows 7 users: I have been receiving many hits on this article from people searching for “Windows […]
Coming Up….
Coming next week – memory leak problem of IE 8 affecting NTDVM.exe in Windows 7. I am preparing an article for that.