Microsoft RDP ActiveX Control

Symptom:

• you are accessing a 2008 terminal server remote "web application" page, or the "Remote Web Operators" page in SBS2003 and receive the message to activate the MS RDP ActiveX control.
• You Click on Tools -> Manage Add-Ons -> Enable or Disable Add-Ons in IE to enable the Terminal Services ActiveX control, but you are unable to see/enable the Terminal Services ActiveX control
• you have IE7 on XPSP3o 2003 Server

Cause:
bug in security model which comes with xp sp3 or web security of 2003 Server.
Terminal Services ActiveX control is disabled by default in XPSP3 as a security measure. You need to explicitly enable the Terminal Services ActiveX control in IE in order to use the ActiveX control.

Solution:
try deleting the following registry keys:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{7390f3d8-0439-4c05-91e3-cf5cb290c3d0} HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{4eb89ff4-7f78-4a0f-8b8d-2bf02e94e4b2)

ActiveX control should now be enabled.

Access Runtime

Once upon a time there was Access 2000, and if you wanted to deploy an application throughout your company you had two choices:

1. Buy Access for every pc you needed the application to run on
2. Buy the developer edition / Access runtime, which made it possible to distribute your .mdb application and distribute only the access runtime ("freely" since you didn't have to buy one for every pc).

Now with Office 2007 Microsoft made the developer edition an add-on of Access2007, and made it FREE!

The addon and the runtime are downloadable from MS sites, and are greatly improved, permitting to deploy application through a setup.

Vista ping "general error"

If your Windows Vista get isolated from network and any ping command (even loopback) boinks an ungraceful "general error", think about this: have you tried to uninstall Norton Internet Security or tampered with any Symantec program while NIS was installed?

Then try to find and run "norton removal tool", a cute program from Symantec that uninstalls programs by programmatically deleting files, folders and registty keys from Symantec (hope this could be on distribution cd as a tool, or even substitute their terrible uninstaller...).

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/removal_tools/Norton_Removal_Tool.exe

NOTE: If you still need symantec's program, you will have to reinstall it.