Adobe Acrobat Pro Customization Wizard for Acrobat X (10)

http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/10.x/10.0.0/misc/CustWiz1000_en_US.exe

reoccuring hour glass or spinning circle (windows 7)

At some point in time something got installed on my pc that caused the spinning circle (the Windows 7 equivalent of the hourglass) to appear over and over and over. The frequency was about every 10 seconds. I watched the processes and could see the culprit was SkypeNames2.exe. This is remedied by uninstalling the Skype toolbar.

How to open documents from Sharepoint in edit mode

At my work we have a SharePoint server. Whenever I would open a document (.docx, .xlsx) it would always open in Read Only mode. I found a fix for this that worked for me (Windows 7 x64 and Office 2007).

First we need to open the registry editor. Go to Start>Run and type in: regedit and click OK. If you are on Windows 7 and do not have a Run box do this:
Start>All Programs>Accessories>right click on Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'. This will bring up a command prompt window. At the prompt type: regedit and hit the Enter key. This should open the registry editor.

Now expand to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Internet
With Internet highlighted right click in the white space of the right side window pane and choose 'New>Dword value'. Name the new value OpenDocumentsReadWriteWhileBrowsing
Now right click on the new name and choose Modify. Put 1 in the Value data box. Click Ok.

You should now have something that looks like this:


Once this setting is complete retry opening a document or spreadsheet from the SharePoint server and see if now it opens in an non-read only mode. This worked for me, I hope it works for you.

Outlook Error This operation was cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer

This error may occur if a browser was installed and then uninstalled. The associations with IE get broken. This can be fixed by running the batch file located here. Extract the zip and run the batch file inside. Close IE, and any MS Office apps before running.

See this page for more info (the author of the batch file).

Media Center Studio

Media Center Studio is an excellent tool for editing and configuring the Media Center Start Menu. It's a very handy tool.

How to delete Outlook Calendar appointment with invalid date (Jan 01, 1601)

1. Select Calendar
2. Go to View>Set the view to By Category
3. Find the appointment in the list
4. Highlight it and click the X on the Outlook menu bar (to delete the appointment)
5. The appointment should disappear from the list.
6. Change the view back to what you had originally.

File not found error playing MKV files on Media Center

I tried the Shark007 codec pack and that didn't work. Then I tried the instructions here and they worked. I thought I would pass this along. Good, easy, instructions for getting .mkv and other filetypes to play on Media Centers x86 and x64.