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Shout-hack Shout-hack let it all Out-hack

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Ok, so everybody in the world knows that MS has a new OS out, called Vista. Already there is a vulnerability. Apparently, with the voice recognition, someone could shout-hack (the stupid term applied to this) you and do bad stuff to your PC. Now this raises a few points:

  • 1) You have to either sit at the computer and tell it what to do, or
  • 2) The user has to be tricked into playing a sound file

That is hilarious. You have to be a freeking moron to have this compromise your computer. And if #1 is the case, why not just steal the damn thing, instead of setting up a password?

Microsoft Outlook 2003 Categories - You cannot sort by this field

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So I’ve been getting this error in my Contacts manager in Microsoft Outlook 2003. I can arrange or sort by any field except Categories which is annoying!

It seems to be a bug. I’ve searched for a solution but found none. So here’s the work around that I’ve discovered.

Right Click on the Categories Field. Click Arrage By. Choose ‘Categories’ however this will sort by category but it won’t sort it alphabetical. I’ll be looking for a better solution.

Microsoft Outlook Error: Interface not registered

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So I installed some video editing software, did some updates, and then BAM!! I can no longer send email. Whenever I hit send I get an error from Microsoft Word saying “Interface not registered” but then there was the internet… and I found the solution…

Solution is here at the MS site

“You receive the “Interface not registered” error message when you try to send or to save an e-mail message to the Drafts folder in Outlook 2002

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Article ID : 870707
Last Review : August 10, 2004
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SYMPTOMS
If you use Microsoft Word as your e-mail editor in Microsoft Office Outlook 2002, and you try to send e-mail messages or to save e-mail messages to the Drafts folder, you may receive the following error message:
Interface not registered
Or, you may experience the following symptoms:
“¢ You receive an error message.
“¢ The e-mail message is not sent.
“¢ The e-mail message is not saved to the Drafts folder.

CAUSE
This behavior occurs if the Ole32.dll file that is located in the %Windir%\System32 folder is not registered correctly in the registry.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, register the Ole32.dll file. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type the following command in the Open box, and then click OK:
Regsvr32.exe %Windir%\System32\Ole32.dll
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BCMLogon.dll Issue with Logon Screen - A recently installed program has disabled the Welcome screen and Fast User Switching

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Computers are just supposed to work, grrrr! Today I got this error:
A recently installed program has disabled the Welcome screen and Fast User Switching. To restore these features, you must uninstall the program. The following file name might help you identify the program that made the change: C:\WINDOWS\system32\BCMLogon.dll

I couldn’t switch the logon screen, and I couldn’t access the internet. I ran to another PC and found the solution to this problem.

To resolve the problem and restore the Welcome Screen and Fast User Switching, you need to reset the GinaDLL entry using these steps:

[UPDATE: There have been some useful comments made below, you might want to check them out before proceeding.]

* Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT
* Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon
* Backup the key by exporting to a file.
* In the right pane, right-click GinaDLL, and then click Delete. (You need to remove the whole value, not just its Value Data)
* Close Registry Editor

You can read about this here
BCMLogon.dll Problem Resolved
or at the Microsoft Knowledge Base
How To Use the Fast User Switching Feature in Windows XP

Thanks for giving me a pain in my rear bcmlogon.dll

Command Prompt Disappears Solution

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I had a problem. My Windows XP Command Line (aka CMD aka Command Prompt aka MS Dos Prompt) disappears when I try to do things. I try to ping and it dissappears. I try to run reg edit, it disappears. It wouldn’t do anything. And then I got an error.

NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction

I did some searching and came up with this very very helpful thread titled, well you know it, NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction

Here’s the solution that was posted:

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