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How to Fix Lost Icon Pictures

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

I was working at the Manitoba Teachers’ Society Disability Benifits plan today. I was able to fix an issue I’ve never seen before. The issue was with all the icons on the machine being lost. Reseting themes did not work and I did not want to link each shortcut and file to the propper file. After playing around I went into:

  1. Right Click Desktop - Properties
  2. Select “Appearance Tab”
  3. Effects button
  4. Select “Use Large Icons”
  5. Hit apply
  6. Hit OK
  7. All the icons on the desktop went back to normal as far as the symbols went
  8. I then reversed the process to bring the icons back down to normal size.

Slow shutdown after installing Exchange 2003 Server

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Well I found great article to show you how to speed of those 2003 Server :) This was taken from here:

SYMPTOMS
After installing Exchange 2003 Server on Windows 2003 Server, the shutdown time of the server increses significantly.

CAUSE
This happens with Exchange 2003 (and sometimes even with Exchange 2000 for that matter), because Active Directory services shuts down before Exchange services shut down.  It happens more often on Exchange 2003 because service shutdown in Windows 2003 has been accelerated.
RESOLUTION
There are few options to fix/avoid the slow shutdown after installing Exchange 2003 Server: