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Problem : MS Excel cells are wrong or distorted like on the picture below. It have been seen on different computers with different files while scrolling or copy-pasting. Solution : terminate the ipoint.exe process  and configure the system to not load ipoint.exe upon startup (using msconfig or regedit).

Problem: Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 may crash while you are copypasting slides or scrolling through them in Slide Sorter view. If you check the Application log in the Event Viewer, you may find something similar to this record: Faulting application name: POWERPNT.EXE, version: 14.0.6009.1000, time stamp: 0x4cc1a4ed Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17651, time stamp: 0x4e211319 Exception code: 0xe0000002 Fault offset: 0x0000b9bc Faulting process id: 0x5a8 Faulting application start time: 0x01cdc3cbb1c20f5b Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\POWERPNT.EXE Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll Report Id: 484578ef-3244-11e2-88e2-0026b9efd81c Solution : First of all make sure that it happens only to the specific presentation file. Then go to the master and check if you have any graphical elements in it. They are generating 99% of the problems. In my specific case it was Windows Metafile object...

Imagine a situation: you have Windows 2003 x86 server working as a print server and you have a bunch of Windows 7 x64 machines that uses network printers installed on the server. If you need to change printing defaults for Windows 7 machines you cannot do that on the server because only x86 driver settings are availble. To change defaults for Windows 7 64 bit clients you need to: Open a share \\servername from Win7 machine (using admin credentials) Click on the "View remote printers" Right click on the printer name> Properties> Advanced tab> Printing defaults… Change everything you need and click OK If you are just want to know how to update x64 printer drivers on the x86 print server then you should definetely use Print Management console on your Windows 7 x64 system.

Problem : You are unable to print .PDF or .DOCX documents which contain Calibri fonts. The Xerox 7345 or similar model sends 116-324 error code and needs to reboot. Resolution : Update you computer with the latest drivers from Xerox website. If you are on PCL driver - disable the Print Optimization feature in the driver. If you are on the PS driver set the PostScript Output Option to Optimize for Portability. The print file will be larger and printing will take more time. Another PS driver setting may screw up the text in your PowerPoint slides (as shown on the picture below). It is "PostScript Pass-through". If you have printouts like on the picture below, you better enable "PostScript Pass-through" (Printing preferences> Advanced> Driver section. )

By default Guest user account settings to be reset after restart. It forces user to install printer each time after computer reboots. But user from local Guest group wants to have default printer installed. Solution: Workaround is to have default printer set up for every user on the machine by default. Make sure to backup your registry before making any changes. The Default User profile is created when Windows is installed. The first time a user logs on to a workstation, the default user profile is copied to the user profile. Therefore, only new users are affected by changing the Default User profile as described here. To add a default printer for all new users: 1. Log on with the Administrator account and install the appropriate default printer. 2. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe). 3. Locate the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Devices Note the information for the value of the key that represents the default printer t...

This is a common problem for corporate multilanguage environment. If you have Analysis toolpack (Excel 2010> Data tab> Data analysis) in your native language and you want to set it back to english do the following: Remove your old add-in: msiexec /i \\SERVER\Share\Excel.en-US\ExcelMUI.msi REMOVE=ExcelAddinATPFilesIntl_1033 Install the English version: msiexec /i \\SERVER\Share\Excel.en-us\ExcelMUI.msi ADDLOCAL=ExcelAddinATPFilesIntl_1033,ExcelAddinSolverFilesIntl_1033

The Outlook Anywhere feature, formerly known as RPC over HTTP, lets clients that use Microsoft Office Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007, or Outlook 2003 connect to their Exchange servers from outside the corporate network or over the Internet using the RPC over HTTP Windows networking component. If you are unable to select "Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP" checkbox or "Exchange Proxy Settings..." button is grayed out it is most likely that these settings are blocked by group policy (Article 961112 Policy Setting). If you can't change the GPO by yourself there is another option: you can change registry setting. It will be overwritten with the next gpupdate, but at least you can setup your mailbox and start working. So start, regedit and browse to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\14.0\outlook\RPC and Change ProxyServerFlags  to 1