Samsung LCD TV makes clicking sounds when attempting to turn on

This recently happened to my father's Samsung LCD TV. When he would go to turn it on it would click but not turn on. Often, if he kept trying, it would eventually turn on. Once it was powered on it would work fine. He could then turn it off and if he tried to turn it on within a few minutes, it would turn back on. If he waited a while and the internals cooled down, it would not turn back on without multiple tries.

He had a tech come out and the problem was bad capacitors. The tech demonstrated that the capacitors were 'popped' and the tops were pushed out and a small amount of gel was exposed. Upon replacing the bad capacitors the tv now turns on properly.

SCCM client will not uninstall using ccmsetup.exe /uninstall

I had a system where the SCCM client was installed but the client was not functioning correctly. I attempted to uninstall the client using the usual method which is running ccmsetup /uninstall command. Whenever I would run this command it would not uninstall. In the ccmsetup.log file I would get:
==========[ ccmsetup started in process 3040 ]========== ccmsetup 4/11/2011 1:54:23 PM 1796 (0x0704)
Version: 4.0.5931.0000
Command line parameters for ccmsetup have been specified. No registry lookup for command line parameters is required.
Command line: ccmsetup.exe /uninstall
Updated security on object C:\Windows\system32\ccmsetup\.
Sending Fallback Status Point message, STATEID='301'.
State message with TopicType 800 and TopicId {B81805F6-98AA-4C2D-918A-D15E6974FFE3} has been sent to the FSP

That's all.

I tried another method of uninstalling and it appears to have worked. On a 32-bit system ccmsetup is located at %windir%\System32\ccmsetup and on 64-bit systems it is at %windir%\ccmsetup. In these directories should be subfolders. Open the subfolder i386. Inside should be a client.msi. From that directory run msiexec.exe /x client.msi. This should uninstall the client.

Office documents open slowly in SharePoint

I'm on Windows 7 with IE 9. I believe this works with other versions of IE also. When clicking on a document in SharePoint it opens very slowly. It appears there is a fix for this. Go to Control Panel>Internet Options>Connections>LAN Settings and uncheck 'Automatically detect settings'. Now try opening a document from the Sharepoint site. It should pop right up.

Sharepoint site prompts for authentication when opening Office documents

If your sharepoint site is in your trusted sites and is set to use existing user and password for authentication, but it still prompts for authentication, there is a fix. You may find when prompted for authentication that you can click cancel on the prompt and the Office document will open. If you want to do away with the prompt for authentication try this regedit.

1) Run regedit
2) Browse to: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\services\WebClient\Parameters
3) Create a new Multi-String Value called ‘AuthForwardServerList’
4) Enter each web address as a value of the 'AuthForwardServerList'
a. Do not include port numbers
5) Reboot the computer
6) The documents should now open without being prompted for authentication.

XP File Association fixes by Doug Knox

Doug Knox has made reg files to fix various broken file associations. This can be handy in a number of circumstances so I wanted to link to his site. Check it out if you loose a file association (especially .exe).

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Dell E6500 and E6510 Encrypted with PGP Blue Screens after Windows Update

We have found on our Dell Latitude E6500 and 6510 laptops that are encrypted with PGP have an issue with a particular Windows Update. Update KB2393802 seems to be the culprit.

The blue screen occurs after PGP Bootguard authentication. To work around this, boot the computer into Safemode. Go to Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs>check the box to show Windows Updates. Look for the update KB2393802 and uninstall it. Reboot and the computer should now boot without blue screening.

Script to clear Outlook email address cache

This script searches XP/Vista/Windows 7 profiles for the Outlook cache file *.NK2 and renames it to .Bak thereby clearing the Outlook email address cache.

Run this script on the client system to clear the cache for all profiles.