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If you suddenly find yourself unable to open any Microsoft Word documents and you are only greeted with an error message when trying to do so.  Check to see if you have the free antivirus software, AVG, installed.  If you do have it installed, this could be the cause of your problem.  Simply disabling the software from running on startup won’t fix the issue, you will need to fully uninstall the application in order to regain use of Microsoft Word.

We ran in to this problem on a student’s computer today at work and it took a little time and a good bit of research to get it resolved.  I can’t take credit for this discovery however, those props go to Ed.  He did a great job putting forth the time and effort to help this kid out so he could get his work done and turned in on-time.

Just remember to install some sort of virus protection if you have to uninstall AVG.  In our case, we used Symantec Corporate Edition that we offer free to our students.  No matter what, you don’t need to leave an unprotected computer connected to the network…it will only complicate things for you.

If you get an error in VMware Fusion saying “The Boot Camp partition is not prepared to run as a virtual machine…” it may be because you formatted the partition to NTFS after Apple’s Boot Camp Utility initially formatted it FAT32.  The Problem with this is that the partition table still reflects a FAT32 filesystem and this is evident in FDISK.  To fix it, try the following:

Before proceeding with the steps suggested below, please backup all critical data which is there on your Mac system.

1. Quit all applications in Host Mac OS X
2. Open Terminal utility from Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder.
3. Key-in the following command

$ sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0

4. Preferably take the screenshot of the output or Note down the output (for restoring MBR).
5. Key-in the following command

$ sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
setpid 3
Choose 07 (as the partition type)
write
Y

Restart your Mac System

For more details please check the example shown below:

$ sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (this will help to change the MBR)

$ fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter ‘help’ for information
fdisk: 1> setpid 3 (Enter “setpid 3” press enter key)

Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec start - size

Device could not be accessed exclusively.
A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] Y (Press Y to modify changes)

Writing MBR at offset 0.
$ fdisk: 1> exit (enter “exit”, press enter key)

6. Restart your Mac System

If you need to integrate MySQL data into Flash with PHP than this is the screencast to see. It goes into details and explains very good and simple what you need.

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If you run into a problem with Windows Mail in Vista where a message is stuck in the Outbox, won’t send, and returns an unknown error when trying to delete…WMUTIL is the answer.  This tool gives you the ability to clear the outbox with push of a single button.  It also allows you to repair the Mail database.  It saved me a lot of time today, and maybe this information will help you as well.

If you’ve worked on IBM® AIX®, another flavor of UNIX®, or Linux®, you’ve more than likely used the vi editor. Since its conception in 1976, vi has become a staple for anyone wanting to edit files. How could someone make a more powerful editing tool than vi, you may ask? The answer is Vim, and this article provides details on the many enhancements that have made Vim a highly used and acceptable editor in the world of UNIX and Linux.

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