Jason Slater Weblog

Hard Disk Fragmentation can often sound like a scary phrase and yet it can hamper the overall performance of your computer and, once identified, can be improved relatively easily.
First, you need to check if there is a problem. A quick way of doing this in Windows XP is to click Start then My Computer which [...]

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Using Terminal Services through an RDP connection typically makes things such as CTRL-ALT-DELETE trickier than using a dedicated desktop or thin client terminal. Tied with this Group Policy settings to protect a multi-user system can be used to prevent access to certain facilities such as Ctrl-Key combinations and the Task Bar. However it is often [...]

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Following the creation of a new distribution group under Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, members of the group were receiving the following error when sending emails from that address:

Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:
sender@domain.com
Your message wasn’t delivered because of security policies. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please [...]

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If you find you are often needing to change the text size of a web page the typical way is to use the menu - for example in Internet Explorer you could click on View then Text Size.

However a useful facility available is that you can instead hold the control key (CTRL) then [...]

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When starting Outlook 2007 and attempting to send new e-mail (compose a message) we were getting the message “A dialog box is open. Close it and try again.”. This alert appeared even though no dialog boxes appeared to be open.

The solution was to restart the computer then open another Office application and fill in [...]

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