After a recent complete failure of my Windows 11 insider build, I was forced to do a Windows reset. The process promises to preserve all of your files, but should probably be asterisked to note that data stored in WSL won't stick around (although technically is not deleted). Where's my WSL Data? Data stored in WSL v2 …

I've had an issue loading meeting recordins from Microsoft Teams into Camtasia recently. The video imports perfectly, but the audio cuts out after about a minute. After a lot of message board posting and troubleshooting of my own, the consensus seems to be that it's something about the bitrate that the audio is saved …

I've been getting the following error when trying to access a new Excel COM object: Unable to cast COM object of type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass' to interface type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel._Application'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the …

So, my DS218+ recently died and I picked up a new DS918+. After setting it up with two new 4TB disks, I thought I was going to be able to put my two old 2 TB disks that were setup as a mirror in my old system and just copy the data over, but unfortunately that's not an option. The solution in the community seemed to be …

After upgrading a number of systems to Visio 2016, I started to hear more and more about old pre-2010 Visio files in VSD format that would no longer open and would throw the following error: The strange thing was that the files were still launching without issue for users who were still on Visio 2010 and 2013. The …

After pasting some content into Excel 365 (2016), I found that I had brought along thousands of little objects from the source data. These were tiny invisible objects, but they'd constantly get in the way of me clicking into a cell, because I'd inadvertently click on one of the objects instead. While I should have just …

I ran into an issue today where using redaction on a PDF in Acrobat X caused black marks throughout the document, even in places where I hadn't used redaction. After a few hours of troubleshooting, I was able to determine what I suspect to be the root cause, and came up with a resolution. To show you an example of the …

I recently was troubleshooting the following error on roughly 400 systems that we were deploying the Citrix Receiver v14 to: CustomAction +DVCRenderingAdapter.dll.827545C6_7013_4DE1_8E6C_DAEE4C57F54A returned actual error code -2147319780 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)MSI …

After upgrading to Windows 10, all of my VMWare Professional v10.x guest machines lost their connection to the network. Taking a look at their network connections, I found that I'd lost the default vmnet0 network, and trying to add it back as a bridged network threw the error "There are no un-bridged host network …

I recently had to troubleshoot an issue where a number of people were unable to publish to their blog from Microsoft Word 2010. They would get the error Word cannot publish this post, and pressing CTRL+SHIFT+I revealed error 701797 in the dialog box. The same error occurred on both SharePoint 2010 and WordPress. There …