Month: November 2017

When trying to install Firefox, I got:”Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.”

1. Press  +R on the keyboard. A Run dialog will open.
2. In the Run dialog box, type in:
   firefox.exe -P
   Note: You can use -P, -p or -ProfileManager (any of them should work).
3. Click OK. The Firefox Profile Manager (Choose User Profile) window should open.

Mine had two default users, one named default and the second named default with a string of numbers. The first was automatically selected so I selected the second and hit ok

(Like many of my technology postings, this is really here for my own notes on problems I run into, the solutions I try and what works when. They are updated as I learn.)

Plex is great to organize digital storage. 

Suddenly though all of my devices would given me the above warning when I tried to access the server. I made sure to run updates first by right clicking the Plex icon in the lower right corner and selecting "Check for Updates".  I then went into Task Manager and shut Plex down.  

Click on Cortana or do the "windows +R" or whatever you use to type in regedit and get into the registry.  We are going to "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server" and delete the values for 

• PlexOnlineHome

• PlexOnlineMail

• PlexOnlineToken

• PlexOnlineUsername

Start up the Plex server again, maybe reinstall the client. Just restarting it worked for me. 

(Like many of my technology postings, this is really here for my own notes on problems I run into, the solutions I try and what works when. They are updated as I learn.)

After the last windows upate, two of the computers were refusing to open Excel sheets corrrectly.  They would open up a Excel Frame but where they spreadsheet should be was completely blank. If you went into  FILE==>OPEN==>Previous, it would open files just fine. 

   The update had enabled Microsoft Office 365 and/or Microsoft Office Student 2016 and chosen one or the other to be the default program to open up Excel files, instead of using Office 2013, the Office Suite we have licenses for.  

I used Revo Uninstaller to remove Office 365 and Office 2016.  

First I went into "This PC ==> C://".  I clicked the View tab and enabled "Hidden Items". 

I went into the list of Programs and found Excel 2013, right clicked and open file location.  It was OS (C:) ==> ProgramData ==> Microsoft ==> Windows ==> Start Menu ==> Programs ==>Microsoft Office 2013 ==> Excel 2013. 

YMMV

I right clicked on an excel file and selected "Open With…".  and inserted the above path. 

Windows had to reconfigure Microsoft Office 2013 before it was able to open things correctly. 

I then went into settings and Default Apps and made sure Excel had all of its defaults. 

 

(Like many of my technology postings, this is really here for my own notes on problems I run into, the solutions I try and what works when. They are updated as I learn.)

After uninstalling Itunes with Revo Uninstaller, I followed these steps from Gheeda Al-Zubaidi. 

To solve this issue:

1. I right clicked the installation file

2. Went to properties

3. Clicked unblock

Then:

1. From the start button, searched for "uac"

2. Clicked "Change User Account Settings"

3. And dragged the bar to "Never Notify" (needs restarting)

4. After restarting, I ran the installation as administrator again, and it worked!