Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Mac Office 2008 - Replace License Key

1. Open the hard disk where Mac OS X is installed, and then open Applications.

2. Open Microsoft Office 2008, double-click Additional Tools, and then double-click Remove Office.

3. Double-click Remove Office, press and hold down the Option key, click Remove Licensing Information Only, and then click Remove.

Note: The Continue command label changes to Remove Licensing Information Only when you press the Option key.

4. Close the Remove Office window, and then click Quit.

5
. Start Office 2008. When prompted, enter the correct licensing information.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Bypass 10 users connection limit on shared folder in Windows XP


Method 1:
create a file in notepad put the following in it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters]
"autodisconnect"=dword:00000000

save it as server.reg

Now double click on that. It will change an entry in the registry that basically disconnects people as soon as they aren't immediately active.  This greatly decreased our issues with the 10 user limit.

Supposedly it is just 10 users trying to connect at the same time. The problem is the Timeout value on a connection is by default higher than 0 so even if I just connected then got off, I'm still a connection until it times out. The about reg file will fix that issue.

Method 2:
Download the patch (at your own risk) for the tcpip.sys file from:
http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads