Tuesday, November 09, 2010

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).

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

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.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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.

Sunday, September 05, 2010

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.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Tool for lite movie management when not using MyMovies

I use MediaBrowser and I have movies spread over 6 partitions. When I want to delete one, or browse to one, I have to search for it. I made a tool that will show you all your movies in a list, allow you to open the folder containg the movie, delete the movie, view the images in the movie folder, delete images, and even preview the movie. Each movie clicked on will show the description and the cover image.

I call this tool Where Are My Movies At? wamma for short.

Get it here.

New beginner's guide to PowerShell on my GitHub page

 I created a beginner's guide to PowerShell here: https://github.com/aamjohns/Powershell_Guide/blob/main/README.md I hope it helps someo...