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Yahoo! has done well with integrating personal Yahoo! Mail with the iPhone, but has been terrible with making Yahoo! Small Business email work with the iPhone very well — until now. They have made the Small Business email accounts IMAP-ready!

Here are their instructions: http://help.yahoo.com//l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/bizmail/pop/pop-39.html

Hello? Where are the rest of the instructions for the iPhone?? Well, here they are:

1. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account…

2. Other > Add Mail Account > type your name (what you want others to see in the From line), your full Yahoo! email address, your Yahoo! password for that account and a description (for the iPhone to display to you).

3. Choose IMAP, Incoming Mail Server: imap.mail.yahoo.com, type in your full email address and password again.

4. Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com, type in your full email address and password yet again, click Next. (if I’m missing a step here, please comment about it)

5. In the Mail, Contacts, Calendar settings, click the new account you just created, click on the email address, scroll down and click on Advanced.

6. Match up the iPhone’s Drafts, Sent and Deleted mailboxes with Yahoo!’s matching mailboxes.

7. You’re done! You can even view all your subfolders in your Yahoo! email. (In your iPhone click in the top left “Mailboxes,” at this point you’ll see your folders, or scroll down and choose your Yahoo! account’s name)

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I don’t know why this happened (although registry corruption is my guess), but a user of mine lost the ability to open EXE files, so when I went to fix that using Doug Knox’s EXE fix, it wouldn’t allow me to open the REG file either. Since I couldn’t open EXE files, I couldn’t open REGEDIT to insert the REG info. Here is a summary of the issues:

“Windows cannot open this file:
File: firefox.lnk

-Use web service to find appropriate service
-select program for list”

I managed to bypass this and access firefox by choosing ‘select program from list’ and then choosing it. I then found the web site with the .lnk fix and found i couldn’t open the download:

“Windows cannot open this file:
File: lnkfile_fix.reg

-Use web service to find appropriate service
-select program for list”

When i went on the start menu an clicked run and typed regedit i got this message:

“Windows cannot open this file:
File: regedit.exe

-Use web service to find appropriate service
-select program for list”

CREDIT: User calumtm http://www.computer-juice.com/forums/f48/lnk-file-association-fix-9352/

 

My workaround came from the same post, which is taken from Doug Knox’s page:

“If your EXE file associations are corrupted, it can be difficult to open REGEDIT, or to even import REG files. To work around this, press CTRL-ALT-DEL and open Task Manager. Once there, click File, then hold down the CTRL key and click New Task (Run). This will open a Command Prompt window. Enter REGEDIT.EXE and press Enter. Thanks to Nigel Andrews for this tip.”

I have used my QuickBooks 2008 for 2 years and have built up a big user dictionary for the spell check, but when I switched computers and installed QuickBooks 2011, it kept asking me to change misspelled words again. I searched and couldn’t find good instructions on how to move the dictionary over, so here is what I did:Mountains Photo

1. Close QuickBooks on both computers.

2. On the old computer (assuming XP), open Windows Explorer (or click My Computer), go to

3. On my Windows 7 new computer, I copied to

To verify your work, go to Edit menu, Preferences, Spelling and look in the chart for the manually entered words.

These steps should work for most QuickBooks editions and operation systems, although you may have to tweak some steps based on your configuration.

I was working on setting up 10 HP Compaq nc6400 laptops and one would not allow the wireless button to light up in blue. The driver was installed, but it didn’t show any networks in range.veroxybd.com

My fix was to press F10 as soon as I turned on the computer, went the the System Configuration menu, Built-In Device Options, and I changed Embedded WLAN Device Radio from Enable to Disable (use the arrows)*. Hit F10, then ESC, Save Changes and Exit. I booted into Windows, shut down, then went in to change it back to Enable. Once I got back to Windows it worked!

*If your setting is set to Disable, set it to Enable and it should fix your problem.

Last week I worked on a computer where the user bought Microsoft Office Home & Student 2010 online and downloaded it from Digital River.  He downloaded (on Windows Vista SP2) and ran it, but it gave an error on Step 4 or 4:

There was a problem setting up Microsoft Office Home & Student 2010: There was a problem setting up Microsoft Office.  Try running Setup again.  If the problem continues, contact Microsoft Product Support.

In most forums online, it pointed to this Microsoft Support page, which wasn’t the problem for my user:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2445957

This does describe the problem perfectly, but it didn’t apply.

Many forums recommended a Clean Boot and uninstalling all Microsoft Office products, but I didn’t feel like this would help.

As I investigated more, I was curious as to what “Microsoft Office Click-to-Run” in the Programs and Features was.  I removed it and ran the installer again.  Now it came up with a different error:

This product must be installed to Q:. Ensure that Q: is unused and try again

Scratching my head, I noticed that the downloaded file (x16-32007.exe) was only a few megabytes, which I thought was very strange.  I searched for help and found this thread:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officeinstall/thread/10c7fed0-d7eb-403c-b03c-6713d9e376e1

This actually was helpful.  NOTE: Most forum commentators blame this error on the Q: being mapped already.  This computer didn’t use Q:, but rather was an error, probably because I removed the Click-to-Run setup.

Here is the answer to the problem quoted from there (thanks Niyamath Khan):

Go to the site where you purchased Office 2010, and sign in with your LiveID. Then click on the “My Account” link at the top of the home page to access your Office downloads. Click on the Download button for the suite you purchased, and then click on the Advanced Options link below the “Download Now” button. There will be a version of Office 2010 listed that is not Click-to-Run and does not require an available Q: drive.

The user went back to digitalriver.com, logged in, and I was able to find the 32-bit full 550MB download.  I had some difficulty getting the huge file to open, but once I did, everything was perfect — no thanks to Digital River pushing my user this silly version.