Category: troubleshooting
Adobe Acrobat Closes Immediately After Opening [Workaround]
Occasionally Adobe Acrobat will close again almost immediately after opening. Here is a short video capturing the problem. To fix it, open Adobe Acrobat Distiller instead. The authentication popup will stay open and you can complete your authentication. In my case, I needed to de-authorize another instance of my computer so I could authenticate again.
Single Step Repair “Trust Relationship Between Workstation and Primary Domain Failed”
There is a simple method to re-establish the trust relationship between the workstation and the domain controller. It only involves a single restart and a single step. Open System Properties. This varies by Windows version. On Windows 10 and 11, open “Settings” select “System” and then open “About”. In Windows 10 select “Advanced system settings”…
Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files
For the sake of data redundancy, I have copied this from Microsoft Support and claim no credit for any of this excellent documentation. If some Windows functions aren’t working or Windows crashes, use the System File Checker to scan Windows and restore your files. Though the steps below might look complicated at first glance, just follow…
Reload Unifi OS Without Reboot
NOTE: As of Unifi OS v2.5.17 the podman command no longer works on UDM Pro devices. It may not work on any devices with the newer Unifi OS installed. You can try this command to restart just the UniFi Network application. Restart OS – To do this, SSH into device (see this article) and run podman restart…
Lock My PC Scam
I just finished tussling with a client’s computer that was locked with a small legitimate program called Lock My PC from FSPro Labs. I found several articles talking about the response they had to an increase in nefarious use of their program. Here is one of them https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lock-my-pc-used-by-tech-support-scammers-dev-offers-free-recovery/ talking about the response FSPro had for…
Restore Lenovo G550 Laptop to Factory Settings
My latest struggle in restoring a computer to usefulness after a virus infection led me to throw my hands into the air and do a system restore. Of course, the laptop came with no restoration discs and the extra partition on the hard drive usually used in lieu of them did not seem to contain…
Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.
This morning I encountered this error when I tried to open Outlook. “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” Turns out, all you need to do is go to run and type or paste “outlook.exe /resetnavpane”. In XP “run” is located at Start > Run… In Vista and Windows 7 it is combined…
Reset Photoshop preferences to default
How to reset Photoshop preferences (In Windows): Hold down all three Ctrl+Alt+Shift buttons and open Photoshop from the start menu. As Photoshop loads, you should get a prompt asking if you would like to “delete the Photoshop settings file”, Click yes All done. Everything will be set like it was right out of the box.…
How to delete or force delete print jobs
Written by Ellie under Geek Girl We have all sent print jobs to the printer to only realize – “I shouldn’t have sent that!” But when you right-click on the job and press delete, the job says “Deleting” but never goes away! The only way I knew of to fix this was to restart my…