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Enabling telnet in windows vista

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:14 +0000

Some of you may be missing the good old command-line telnet client. The thing is that vista has this client disabled by default. The good news is that you can easily install/enable it. To do so, follow these steps:

Go to Control Panel
Click on ‘Programs’
Under ‘Programs and Features’, click on ‘Turn windows features on or off’
Wait a bit for the list to be compiled
Tick ‘Telnet client‘ and hit ‘OK’ then wait for it to be installed

You may now open a command prompt and use telnet hostname port

Good luck…

Microsoft Office Picture Manager takes a lot of time to load

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:51:31 +0000

Is your Microsoft office manager taking way too much time to load?

The reason behind it is that the picture manager keeps track of the most recently used paths, and if any of these paths is no longer available, the software will stall for a long period.
The most possible scenario is that you have accessed a folder over the network, and you are no longer able to access that location.
The fix is rather simple.

On windows XP, go to c: -documents and settings -username (your login) -local settings -application data -Microsoft -OIS…

RPC server unavailable error – Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

admin — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:38:30 +0000

Thought of mentioning this as I’ve came across it and noticed many others did too.

If for some reason, whenever you try enabling internet connection sharing (ICS), you get an error saying that the rpc server is unavailable, do the following:

Click on start run
type services.msc and hit enter
Search for the DHCP Client service, and check its status, it will most probably be stopped.
Double click on this service, change its status to automatic and hit start

that’s it.…