When you try to upgrade to new version of VMware tools , Installation wizard asks you to uninstall older version .
If you can’t do it , or uninstall feature failed to complete, you will need to uninstall them manually.

You may receive the following errors
A previous version of VMware Tools is already installed

To remove old VMware tools follow the steps bellow:

1. Open registry editor
2. Navigate to the following key
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionuninstall search for VMware Tools related branch and delete the key Please note:Do not delete the entire uninstall branch.
3. Navigate to
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareClassesInstallerProducts search for VMware Tools related branch and delete the key
   Please note:Do not delete the entire Products  key
4. Navigate to
   HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTInstallerProducts search for VMware Tools related branch and delete the key
   Please note:Do not delete the entire Products  key
5. Navigate to
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareVMware Delete the branch called VMware Tools.
6. Delete the "VMware Tools" directory within in the Vmware directory under Program Files
7. Restart the server
8. Install updated version of VMware Tools through Vsphere Client or VMware client

Terminal Server Office 2003/2007/2010 Installation issue

If you installed office in the same way you install it on your desktop.
Your user information will be replicated to all other users.

You may receive complaints that some excel or word files are been hold by your username or username you used to install Office.

You can fix it the following way.

Search for the user in registry
One of the keys under HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurentVersionInstallerUserData will have office instalation details.

Delete user RegOwner key Information.

Continue searching the registry right-click and delete the Username and UserInitials with problematic username

Additional information can be found here:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2001595

You may see this error when you try to accept recurrence meeting ,which time was been updated.

To resolve this issue:

1. On the BES Server, click Start > Run and type regedit.
2. Navigate to the following registry HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0OutlookOptionsCalendar.
3. Right-click the Calendar folder and click New > DWORD Value.
4. Type DisableMeetingRegeneration and press ENTER.
5. Double-click the new key and type 1 in the Value data field of the Edit String screen.
6. Click OK and close the Registry Editor.

Go to your device and delete BIS CICAL service book

To delete CICAL on BB device go to Settings–>Advanced Options –> Service Books
Locate BIS CICAL and delete it.

Than go to your BlackBerry Enterprise server , right click on user and pres “Resend Service Book”

Restart your device and meeting accepts should start working.

I got this after installing some update, can’t say exactly which.
The problem symptom is that when you type anything in search bar it looks like that

To solve it.

Go to Run> type regedit.exe

Navigate to :HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurre ntVersionExplorerFolderTypes{EF87B4CB-F2CE-4785-8658-4CA6C63E38C6}TopViews

You will see a key named {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
Just rename it to anything else like {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}.Orig

After you rename the key , start Task manager and kill the explorer.exe process

Run the process again from file>New Task (Run..)

Type in bar explorer.exe

And Walla!

It works!

Microsoft published a hotfix that addresses the issue in Windows 7 and 2008R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977380

During migration from Exchange 2003 to 2007 we had the problem with Outlook 2007 client free busy response was slow , about 10 seconds to load .

To fix it .
Open registry editor on your Desktop(where outlook is installed)

Navigate to the following path : HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookOptionsCalendar
Create new DWORD value named UseLegacyFB and set value to 1

Note:
0 or not set will use default outlook settings
1 will use Public Folder based Free/Busy information

Read KB958934 to get more information.

To fix fax sending issue in Windows Vista:

• Click Start >in search field type “regedit“  hit Enter
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftFax
• On the right pane find and click on ArchiveFolder
• Check if  the value of the key is  C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindows NTMSFax if not fill it
  note:The location can be D: or any other windows installation folder
• Reboot your Vista

Windows Vista allows users to change and set default program association for most sort of file extension via Control Panel’s “Set Associations” and “Set Default Programs” under “Default Programs” link.

However, there is no option  to reset or restore file extension association  back to original settings as in   freshly installed Windows Vista OS.

List of programs out there under “Set Default Programs” link, such as Internet Explorer,  Outlook, Calender, Windows Mail, Windows Media Player, winamp, winzip and Windows Photo Gallery have defined their own default file extensions, types and protocols.
And, user can clearly set the program as the default program to use to open all file sorts and protocols it can open.
Even so, it may not be the default file association such a configured in Windows Vista originally.

Unless user remembers and knows the original file association and change the default program for the kind of file type accordingly using the graphical user interface (GUI) in Control Panel, else here’s another workaround to restore and reset the file association to the default Windows Vista version of file association.

1. Click Start Menu, and when that happens type regedit in the Start Search and press ENTER.
2. Navigate to the following registry branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurre ntVersionExplorerFileExts[ext] Replace the [exe] with the actual file extension that you want to restore . If you unsure, coup browse through all the sub-key under FileExts.
3. Delete the sub-key named UserChoice.
4. Exit from Registry Editor.

Risk Level : Very High ( Dangerous )

Symptoms

Pop up balloon warning messages claiming that your PC is infected.

* “Critical System Error”,
* “Your computer is infected”,

Search and kill the following processes

* antivirus.v.1.0.0, WinSpywareProtect.EXE, WinSpywareProtectSetup.exe

Remove Scan.Winspywareprotectscan.com files & dlls files

* antivirus.v.1.0.0,
* WinSpywareProtect.EXE,
* WinSpywareProtectSetup.exe

Remove/Modify corrupt Registry Entries

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWinSpywareProtect
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion
UninstallWinSpywareProtect
HKEY_ALL_USERSSoftwareAdsl Software Limited
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTTacOnlyOne

Use Shield Deluxe 2008 – Antivirus & Anti-Spyware to scan yor computer for other threats

Virus Heat is a Trojan.Win32 . More or less, it does degrade performance of computers and generate annoying pop up witch send you to virusheat.com.

Virus Heat Manual Removal Process:

1. Go to Control Panel >Add or Remove Programs and uninstall Virus Heat

2. Close all programs.

3. Go to >Start>Run >regedit find and delete key

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft

WindowsCurrentVersionUninstallVirus Heat”

4. Restart the computer.

5. Stop Virus Heat process

6. Find and delete the following infected files from your system. Don’t worry if you don’t find these files. Just proceed to next step. Virus Heat 3.9.exe, wuuawkz.dll , iinqyl.dll

7. Go to C:Program Files folder and delete the “Virus Heat” folder (if you can’t delete it, reboot your computer to safe mode then delete the folder.

8. After all steps go to http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php and download last version of Smitfraudfix.exe

9. Reboot the computer in safe mode and run the utility.

W32.BAGLE virus – wintems.exe hldrrr.exe srosa.sys

I must say that with all my of experience that one was one of the hardest to remove ..
It disables your current antivirus software, prohibit you from accessing system in safe mode , and changes names each time it starts.

So.. Here are the steps

Go to http://www.majorgeeks.com/GMER_d5198.html and download GMER
Run the tool and when it finds wintems.exe process kill him..

1. Run regedit go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsShellNoRoamMUICache and see all entries regarding “C:WINDOWSsystem32drivers” .
2. In Explorer window Go to> tools>folder options>view and select show hidden files
3. Browse to your C:WINDOWSsystem32drivers .. find drivers folder and try to delete all files listed in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsShellNoRoamMUICache
4. Scan your system with panda online scanner (the only one that actually cleans , not only detects
5. Install anti virus program, download last updates and do a full scan to your system

Of course there is always an option to reapply service pack or do a reinstall to your system.

The problem is solved !

Thanks to Eran Amir