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If you are seeing the ‘Microsoft Word experienced an error trying to open the file‘ error, this might be misleading and the cause is likely nothing like what the error message says. In fact, it’s most likely security setting to try and protect you. Please note that this is at your own risk, if you
If you are seeing the ‘Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space‘ error, this might be misleading and the cause is likely nothing like what the error message says. In fact, it’s most likely security setting to try and protect you. Please note
If you have Sky Q, there’s a hidden engineers menu with some extra options including the ability to change the wi-fi bands and enabling connectivity over your home’s existing electricity wiring (known as powerline). Sky aren’t currently supporting powerline*, it’s a work in progress. It does appear to work, but if you decide to try
You can easily use PowerShell to delete files that are older than x minutes/hours/days. This is useful if you have a temporary folder which you would like to regularly clear down. Please see the below examples: Delete files older than x minutes Get-ChildItem -path C:\temp | where {$_.Lastwritetime -lt (date).addminutes(-5)} | remove-item Delete files older
Sometimes tracking down the exchange mailbox which is linked to a specific email address can be time consuming, but you you make this task easier by using the Exchange Management Shell. To do this, follow the below instructions: 1) Open the Exchange Management Shell 2) Enter the below code, but swap email@domain.com for the email
If you need to redirect a page to another page or site, it’s best to use a 301 redirect to help retain some of your SEO work. It’s believed that a 301 redirect will reduce your PageRank by only 15%, compared with the 100% loss if you just redirect or use a 302 redirect. To