I have recently upgraded from win 8.1 to Win 10. Since the upgrade RDP wouldn't work correctly.
I couldn't use a recently used connection. Instead I had to open a new window each time. Today it stopped working completely.
If I tried to run mstsc.exe directly it would appear in task manager for less than a second before dissapearing.
Edit: Issue was traced to "custom scale factors" in display settings. See answer below.
Issue was traced to "custom scale factors" in display settings.
This fix on technet worked for me. I am reposting here for others. (since most links in my search results were way off the mark)
Hit the Windows key and then type "display".
Tap on the "display settings" link that is found.
You should see the following text in red: "A custom scale factor is set"
Click on the text underneath which states "Turn off custom scaling and sign out".
Sign back in.
I would add that if you have it pinned to the task bar it would be worth unpinning and re-pinning it also.
How can VBA help full, offline accessible documentation install into Microsoft Excel 2013?
I have tried to download this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40326, but I cannot open help sections.
I have already tried to modify my installation, but cannot find any options related to this in setup.
Trick to open the file is double click the file. One pop-up as per image shown below will appear.
Please uncheck the tick mark ie remove it in the check-box Always Ask before opening the file.Then open it. It will be opened with its contents. HTH
Edit :
I am able to open these documents by trick adopted by me. Screen shots shown here.
After opening Excel Developer Help File I am getting the index on the left side and selected page opened on the right side which can be fully navigated. Please let me know what you are looking for. Apart from this There is an opening page where references to web url's are presented.
In a connected world security updates are a fact of life for a Long time. Microsoft have done a mighty job of securing Windows starting with XP SP2 released in Aug 2004. Since then a string of updates have reduced the humble CHM to the status of a humble local help system. It's a shame but we have had to move on.
Please note and make sure downloading your CHM's to a local drive!
Because files downloaded off the Internet - including ZIP files and CHM files contained in those zip files - are marked as as coming from the Internet and so can potentially be malicious, so do not get browsing rights on the local machine.
A explicitly 'unblock' of your downloaded CHM file may solve your problem. Please try in Windows Explorer and in a local drive (!) before going the next installation steps for Office 2013:
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to your download folder
Find your CHM file
Right click and select Properties
Click the Unblock button on the General tab
Here's what the dialog looks like:
I remember (not sure) the Unblock button may appear in NTFS filesystems only.
I have tried from my office it show available download site. Then I used same installer (setup-x86_64.exe) at home it not show anything. Both my pc (office and home) i set up google dns. Is it because im using wireless connection at home? Please advise. Thank you.
I had the same issue. i changed my setting in "Select Your Internet Connection" to "Use Internet Explorer Proxy" instead of "Direct Connection".It worked like a charm. I guess the issue is due to the proxy layer at work.
Just go to website
https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
Chose the mirror web address nearest to you by clicking right and select the option "SAVE LINK ADDRESS" from the menu.
Paste it into the "USER URL" then click "ADD" and press "NEXT". Hope it will work. Good Luck.......!
I just met the same problems. At the very beginning, I chose the first option which is directly connect, but I can not get any downloading websites as the image showed above. Then I tried to back and chose the second one which is select your internet collection, the same result is displayed on the screen.
The solution is that we have to restart the installer and directly choose the second option. If you still don't get any websites, please be patient, try one more but still need to restart the installer. I just tried three times, maybe four times, which I can not remember, but it worked finally.
Hoped that can help you guys.
Had the same error today, my solution was to :
move the setup-x86_64.exe out of the Download folder into e.g. c:\tmp
i think the cygwin setup process has some problems with creating a temporary file in the same directory of its installer due to a lack of permissions and does not show an error message
The solution for me was enabling TLS 1.2 support in Internet Properties. But hold on! You'd better update your Windows before, because there is an update that enables support for this protocol by default. If you don't want to update your Windows, for reasons, follow these steps:
Go to Internet Properties, you can find this in start menu, in control panel, or hit Win + R and run: Inetcpl.cpl.
Go to "Advanced" tab.
Scroll to "Security" section.
Check Use TLS 1.2 option.
Run Cygwin installer again and now it should work. If not, maybe try with other security options.
How did I find out this
After a few failed install attempts, I decided to look for some hints in Event Viewer, and to my surprise, I found them. In System logs I spot lots of errors from Schannel service with a meaningless description:
The following fatal alert was received: 70.
I Googled for further explanations. Errors like these are caused by SSL failures, so something wrong was happening between Cygwin installer and Cygwin site. Something in my head told me to check Internet Properties for options relating to security, so I did and I found disabled protocols.
Step1: select use internet setting.
Step2: "http://cygwin.refractal.net/" add this URL.
This works for me.
Also, https://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst has several alternate URL's, depending upon the request location (your location).
I do not have admin privileges on this windows 10 host, but this worked:
setup-x86_64.exe -B -O -s http://mirror.clarkson.edu/cygwin
which allowed me to install cygwin from that one mirror site.
Do you have K9 filter installed by any chance ? I have the same problem posted, but I do know my issue is the K9 filter.
Add one of the site in http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst manually
and select one of the internet connection type which is appropriate for your internet connection. and proceed...it worked for me
i found a solution to this problem:
first, go to https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html , look for your location and click onto the FTP link.
Then, you should see 4 folders:
noarch,
unsupported,
x86,
x86_64
click on "go back" or something like this (go back 1 folder).
Then you should see a many folders. Search the"cygwin" folder and simply drag it to your desktop. Now you should have a shortcut to this FTP Folder. Now, right-click the shortcut and click onto "properties" and copy the URL.
Now, you can open the installation program.
Click on "Install from Internet",
All Users / Just Me (your choice),
Use System Proxy Settings.
Now you will get an error message (if you already got that error, it wont show up again). Ignore the error and it will ask you for "available Download Sites".
Paste the URL from the shortcut into the "User URL" and click on "add".
Then, a "Select Package" Window will show up. click on "all" and then on "next".
Finished!
(Im using firefox and windows 7 32bit VM VB)
Now some guys will ask: Why didnt you just put the ftp link directly into the setup?
Well, i tried that and setup crashed on me every single time. With the shortcut it worked fine.
I hope this will help. (my english skills are trash, i know)
"Run as administrator" did the trick for me ....
(Win 7) If run without the list is blank, for whatever reason admin privileges are needed for the mirror list to load.
In Select Connection Type Page, Select Direct Connection and click Next
User URL text box ftp://cygwin.mirrors.pair.com and Click Add
Select the same URL from Available Download Sites list and proceed Next.
It worked for me.
I had the same issue. Disabling kaspersky solved it. There are a list of programs known to interfere with cygwin functionality. Please find the list here here(4.44)
Solution
Put one of mirrors to the URL window of installer.
If list of mirror urls is not available, use the below link to get list of
mirror urls
Also here is working mirror url
A silly problem-solution with the same symptoms, sharing for future reference - I was using an old installer, downloading the latest version fixed this immediately
You Should try adding this site
it is working for me.
Japan: ftp.iij.ad.jp(ftp), ftp.jaist.ac.jp(ftp), ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp(ftp), ftp.iij.ad.jp(http), ftp.jaist.ac.jp(http), ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp(http)
There are reported problems with our web application which only seem to be happening at one client's site. For diagnostic purposes, is there any way you can get a client to send you their IE Security custom settings ? e.g. In IE 8, Tools -> Internet Options -> Security Tab, for the "Internet" zone, you can click "Custom Level" to see the custom security settings. Is there some way the user can export their settings to a text file or something ? Or are screen dumps the only way ?
EDIT : sorry, should have mentioned it is for Windows XP (SP3)
gpedit.msc -> Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer
Right click, Export List...
If your user is using Windows 7, you might want to try the "record steps to reproduce a problem" built into windows 7 (possibly vista too, I'm not sure). It takes screenshots and gives you some basic statistics.
Just have them type in "record steps to reproduce a problem" in the "search for programs and files" text box under the windows 7 equivalent of the start button.
My company has a shared network folder for projects. This folder contains a sub-folder for each of our clients. Each sub-folder contains all the information for the projects done for those clients. Makes sense, yea?
OK.
I have been given a task: When in our company's MS CRM and viewing a client account, allow the user to click a button that will open explorer to the project folder for that account.
Sounds easy.
Did a bit of hunting online. This looks nice: http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2007/04/18/integrating-windows-explorer-files-and-folders-into-crm-tabs.aspx
It's funky, but it goes waaay beyond the scope of the task I've actually been given. However, my company doesn't use SharePoint (though we have licenses if we need it) and I don't have the time to invest tweaking this solution until it fits our CRM. I just need to open explorer on the client machine and point it at a folder. I want a button that will open explorer. Should be easy! I just want to set up a button in CRM, execute the command to open explorer /root, //server/projects/account, and then move on to more important things.
That said, I don't think like a hacker, so I didn't realize that this was an obvious security exploit that will be blocked most (if not all) of the time. So I gave it a go, but I've been having trouble opening explorer with JavaScript, which I thought would be the quick, easy and painless solution (duh me!)
Is there an easier way to do this than the example I cited above?
Actually if you direct Internet Explorer to a local protocol, network shared folder or ftp server it turns to a file browser. This is automatic and you dont need to do anything other than making the folder you talk about to a network shared folder (via SMB) or FTP server. Just open that address in a new window:
window.open("file://\\192.168.1.10\clients\112");
window.open("ftp://192.168.1.10/clients/112");
either one should work