Feb 11

I was getting the same message with one of my systems. It was not even listing the hard drive or the CD-ROM in the BIOS. It ended up being a very easy fix.

Here was the fix:
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Jan 11

Are you getting double emails in Opera when you configure your Gmail account in Opera using the IMAP format? If so, here is the fix:

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Jan 09

If your bluetooth service is suddenly not available on your Mac, here is a fix:

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Nov 25

If you can’t open iTunes when you click on it or if you can’t close it, then it could be a couple of things.

Here they are:
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Sep 27

Are you trying to boot up into Safe Mode, and you’re getting an “Input not supported” error?

Here’s the fix:

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Aug 16

If this happens to you, try resetting the CMOS. The way to do that is the following:

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Mar 28

Here is the fix:

How to send email from a non-ATT email account via ATT/Yahoo DSL

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Mar 01

If you are getting this message, check to make sure that you do NOT have a floppy disk in your floppy disk drive. If you don’t, then go here for several solutions:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm

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Jan 07

Does your Internet Explorer keep looping back to the RunOnce page every time you try to set its search engine settings? A quick change in the registry will fix it.

Here’s the code if you want to make the registry patch yourself:

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Dec 30

In Leopard, when you go offline while using Apple’s Mail program with an IMAP account, you may get the following error message, or something similar:

“Some actions taken while the account “xxxxxxx” was offline could not be completed online.

Mail has undone actions on some messages so that you can redo the actions while online. Mail has saved other messages in mailbox “Apple Mail To Do” in “On My Mac” so that you can complete the actions while online.

Additional information: The IMAP command “APPEND” (to Apple Mail To Do) failed with server error: Invalid mailbox name..”

And if you click OK enough times, the program crashes.

There are two ways to correct this problem (both ways will preserve your mail settings (you will NOT have to reconfigure your Mail program) and your mail will appear in a few seconds after first opening the Mail program after performing the fix below):

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Aug 03

Check these links out:

How to get rid of the Virtual Memory Low message

What is Virtual Memory and more fixes for the Virtual Memory Low errors

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Nov 10

It’s a bug in Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Go here for the solution:

http://www.pchell.com/support/limitedconnectivity.shtml

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Sep 23

If you are having problems viewing your faxes in Microsoft Fax Console, then all you have to do is download a patch and install it.

This is a known issue with Microsoft Fax Console and is caused by installing a third party application that conflicts with it.

Here is the article on this issue.

And you can download the patch that will fix this problem here.

Just click on “Download” on the right-hand side of the page. Once you have downloaded it, double-click it to install.

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Sep 18

Is CiceroUIWndFrame not allowing you to shut down your computer without you having to manually click “end task”? Well, there is an easy fix for this.

Here it is:

Cause: The Speech and Handwriting Recognition features of Microsoft Office XP

Solution: Uninstall them

Instructions (for Windows XP)

  1. START>CONTROL PANEL>Add/Remove Programs
  2. Select Microsoft Office XP and click the “Change” button
  3. “Add or Remove Features…” should be selected; click NEXT
  4. Click the “+” sign next to “Office Shared Features”
  5. Click the “+” sign next to “Alternative User Input”
  6. Click the disk icon with the down arrow next to “Speech” and select the red X, “Not Available”
  7. Do the same for “Handwriting”
  8. Click the “Update” button at the bottom of the window
  9. After it does its thing, click “Finish” or “Close” or whatever it says to close the window
  10. Done!
Cicerouiwndframe
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The next time you shut down, it may give you the message one more time, but after that, you should be good to go.

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