Rants: September 2007 Archives

I've seen these before, as recently as a coworkers (Hi Louis) desktop so it was worth documenting.

Issue 1:
1. When connecting to OWA (Exchange Webmail), when composing a new message, a red x appears in the body area of the message, as though it wasn't accepting an activex control or otherwise. Popup blockers were not to blame.

... Had to choose options in OWA and download and install the S/MIME control. Now, creating a standard email should not requiring a tool needed for signing or encrypting an email but ... whatever ... it worked, first time

Issue 2:
2. After getting the above control working, then IE7 would crash completely when I clicked send after composing a message (Come on Microsoft, you can do better than this by now!?).

... had to install a patch on the Exchange Server (2003) in order to stop this problem from happening (did not require a reboot for those of you wondering). The Patch

Argh, this keeps happening to my dad (and me on occasion).

Vista just decides (seemingly, pretty sure I'm not doing the keystroke combo) to change the keyboard language from the default setting of US English to Canadian French (thus I get e's with accents, etc. - seriously, those are as lame as Poutine! :)

Anyways, the fix is the Left ALT+Shift...

Alternatively, to see this changing happening, go into the control panel and choose Regional and Language Options. Then Keyboards and Languages and press the Change Keyboards button. I found the most useful was to have the language bar "docked in the taskbar" and the checkbox for "show text labels on the lanaguage bar" checked.

Dad, are you reading this? :)