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Stopping
Automatic Loading of GoToMyPC
GoToMyPC is a great tool for
accessing your computer remotely - from any location.
I use 2 accounts on a regular basis - one I use while on the road to access
my home
computer; and the other I use with my clients to access their computers and
provide
support.
The one I use at home is
always on while I am traveling, and I have set up my home PC
with a special login and password (and a secret nickname) that
allows me to log in to
my home PC from any computer with an Internet connection. The
other one has a
simple login and password that I provide to my clients when I need
to access their
computer. I walk them through the login and have them use
their name as the nickname
for their computer. Then they send me an invitation by e-mail
which allows me to access
their computer as if I was sitting in front of their screen.
This form of support
seems to work very well for my clients, but after we are done with
the
support session, GoToMyPC continues to load every time they reboot
(or turn on) their PC
- and asks them to enter their login information. This
can take an extra 1-2 minutes,
depending on the speed of their computer. It isn't too
difficult for them to click on cancel
when this window opens, but the extra time can be a pain.
There are 2 steps
that need to be performed to disable the GoToMyPC service from
starting
on boot-up. The first step is the System Configuration
Utility. Select Start - Run, type
'msconfig', and click on OK. Click on the Startup tab, and
uncheck the 'g2svc' Startup Item.
Click on OK. You do not need to reboot your computer at
this time - until after you perform
the next step.
The 2nd step is
through the Services console. Select Start - Run, type 'services.msc',
and
click on OK. Click on the Startup tab, and uncheck
the 'g2svc' Startup Item. Click on OK.
Locate the GoToMyPC service - right-click and select
Properties. Change the Startup Type
to 'Manual' and click on OK. Now reboot your PC and you
will see that the GoToMyPC
service does not start.
If you wish to start the service manually, you can either open the
Services console again,
right-click on the GoToMyPC service and select Start, or start the
program by selecting
Start - Programs - GoToMyPC.
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Qualys's
Free Browser Checkup
Listed in PC Magazine - March 25, 2003
Top 100 Web Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without
http://browsercheck.qualys.com
Come to this URL and
the folks at security tools company Qualys ask you:
"Can I break into your computer? Let's try it now."
This free service
audits Internet Explorer on Windows machines for vulnerabilities.
With a few clicks, you'll get the exact specs on your browser and
the
results of Qualys's series of attempts to hack your system.
Fortunately, if the tests find a hole, they also tell you how to fix
it.
This is a quick and easy way to make sure you're secure.
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Adobe
Acrobat Tips
Presented at Tech Talk Seminar Series
May 16, 2003
Click here
to
download & print a 13-page document
which shows:
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Tips on Setting up
Watched Folders
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Setting
Preferences in Distiller
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Form Fields in
Acrobat
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Reset Form Button
/ Submit Button (using Java Script)
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Keyboard Shortcuts
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Should I use Adobe
PDFWriter or Acrobat Distiller?
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Job Options
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Case
or Not-Cased?
Published in Woody's Windows Watch #6.09
July 18, 2003
A huge flurry of emails about whether web and
email links need to be in
lower case or not.
We said that web links are traditionally in
lower case but don't need to be.
That's generally true but some readers, notably Tom S. and David V.,
pointed
out that non-Windows servers are case-sensitive for folder and page
names.
This can be a trap for both web authors and readers.
For example http://freddagg.com/Case.html
would be a different page from
http://freddagg.com/case.html
depending on the web server.
The domain name is always case INsensitive,
but what follows may be
depending on the hosting server.
Most web authors avoid this problem by
putting all their folder and file names
in lower-case but mistakes can happen.
With emails, many readers wrote in no
uncertain terms to say that email
addresses were always case-insensitive. Officially that's true, whether
you
write an email address as lower case, upper case or a mix, the message
should reach the destination domain.
But once the message reaches the mail host it
can be subjected to various
configurable mail filters before getting to the users mailbox. Those filters
can
be written in PERL or some other script language. We had many readers
confirm our experience of mail filters that assumed all email addresses
were
lower case and didn't work as expected when one with upper case
letters
arrived (i.e., the comparison tests were case sensitive). The solution is
for
the programmer to transform an email address to uniform case before
doing
the tests but that's no use to the sender.
In practice, email addresses can be
case-sensitive though they really should
not be.
For both web and email links, the
rule-of-thumb for readers is: if unsure copy
the link exactly as it is published.
Email to join : WWW@woodyswatch.com
WOODY's WINDOWS XP
Copyright © 2003 Peter Deegan. All rights reserved.
ISSN 1446-7437
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Amicus Administrator
"Your database appears to be corrupt" error message,
(Version 5.X - Client/Server Edition with Amicus running on the
server)
(for AA5X - C/S Edition where Amicus
does not run on the server (Split Install),
see Article #258 in the Amicus Knowledgebase)
This
can happen if the Amicus Administrator was shut down improperly.
If you are not comfortable with these instructions, or this is
the first time that this has happened, it is recommended that
you contact a certified Amicus consultant or Gavel & Gown
tech support.
Click
on the link below to go to Gavel & Gown's Knowledge Base
article
http://www.amicusattorney.com/support/support_searchable_kb.aspx
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When
you see the message "Your database appears to be corrupt.
Do you want
Amicus to attempt to fix the problem?, answer NO
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Make
sure that all users are logged out of Amicus
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From
the server (or the computer where the Administrator is
installed), click on Run, type cmd and press ENTER
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In
the Command window, type cd\ and press ENTER (if
your Amicus Administrator resides on a different drive, change
to the appropriate drive)
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At
the c:\> prompt (or the drive letter for the Administrator),
type cd program files\team50\database (that is the
default path for the Amicus Administrator)
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At
the c:\program files\team50\database> prompt, type RBLDINDX.BAT
and press ENTER (see the screen below) - this could
take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, depending on the
size of your database
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If
the rebuild completes successfully without any error messages at
the end,
close the window - if the first attempt to Rebuild the Index
results in an error
or does not fix the problem, DO NOT MAKE A SECOND ATTEMPT.
Contact
Amicus Tech Support at 1-800-472-2289.
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Type
EXIT and press ENTER to close the DOS command
window
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(The next two steps - deleting the .fcs files - only needs to be
done with Client/Server Edition. If you have Amicus
Advanced Edition, you can skip to the next instruction).
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In
either Explorer or My Computer, browse to the c:\program
files\team50\database folder (or the location where your Amicus
Administrator resides)
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Sort
the files by type - highlight all of the files that have the
file extension .fcs (there will be approximately 7 files - shown
below), and delete these files
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Go
back to your desktop, and click ONCE on the Amicus
Administrator icon
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Hold
the CTRL key, and double-click on the Administrator icon
- if nothing happens, keep the CTRL key down and double-click
again (Keep
holding down the CTRL key until you see the message "Regenerating
database")
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Let
go of CTRL and wait for the database to rebuild (again, this
could take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, depending on
the size of your database)
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Once
the database is rebuilt, you will need to rebuild the individual
Amicus office databases - you can do this from the Administrator
or one by one on each desktop. If you use the Rebuild
feature in the Administrator, it will reduce the time it takes
to open n either case,
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Amicus - QB Link Tips
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Print
a list of Custom Fields created in the Amicus Administrator
(or print screen shots)
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Go into the Amicus
Administrator
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Select 'Configure' -
'Files'
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Select the 'Custom
Pages' tab
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Select a File Type
that you have customized
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Click on the 'Print
to File' button.
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When
Notepad opens the newly created file, you can print it, or you can save it to your hard drive.
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In
order to capture a screen shot of an active window,
open the window and
press the Print Screen key on your keyboard
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This saves the
graphic image of the active window to the Windows clipboard
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Open your word
processor and press Ctrl / V to paste the image to a document
(or select Edit - Paste)
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Then print!
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How
to Perform a Successful HotSync Between Amicus Attorney
and Your Palm Pilot (New for Amicus Attorney 5.5 through Amicus
Small Firm 2008)
Click
here to
download & print a 9-page document
which gives you:
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Important
Issues & Helpful Hints
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Customizing the
HotSync Options
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Checking the Log
& Cleaning up Duplicates
If you are still
using a Version prior to 5.5, click
here
to download
the 7-page document.
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How
Do I Know If I Need an Amicus Certified Consultant?
Click
here to
download & print a document that will help you determine whether
or not you need to hire an Amicus Certified Consultant.
This document will help
existing and new Amicus users, and will give you a list
of:
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Amicus
List Template problems (File or Contact lists in tables)
Word Templates
- There are four Word templates that come with Amicus
Attorney
that have problems that cause one or both of the following problems: a) Each record
appears in a separate table (with a header in each table), b) The final document lists
half the number of selected records. To fix the
problem templates, you have two options - one is to download the
four
corrected templates from this site, and the other is to manually
modify the original
templates.
Click here to
view a PDF file that explains how to manually modify the
original
templates.
Click here to
download a zipped file that contains the four corrected Word templates* -
if you have modified the original templates that came with Amicus
Attorney, you
may want to copy them to a safe location first. If you selected to
install Word
sample files when Amicus was installed, you will find the
four templates in your
Team50\Templates\Document folder - the names of the files and
templates are
listed below:
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x002cft.dot -
Contacts by File (MS Word)
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x002cap.dot -
Contact Index - Address & Phone (MS Word)
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x002fft.dot -
Files Index (MS Word)
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x002fcl.dot -
Files Index - by Client ID (MS Word)
*There were a few
other minor modifications made to the four templates, in
addition
to correcting the problems, as follows: a) the header row
in the table has been
designated as a header row, and it will now repeat at the top of
each page in the
table, and b) the entire table has been formatted so that the
rows do not break
across pages; therefore, if a record with multiple lines is at
the bottom of a page,
it will not be split across 2 pages. WordPerfect
templates - There were no major problems with the original
WordPerfect
templates - however, they have been modified as well to correct
minor features that
were not set up properly, as follows: a) the header row in
the table has been
designated as a header row, and it will now repeat at the top of
each page in the
table, b) extraneous codes have been removed, and the formatting
has been cleaned
up, c) the line that was at the end of each report that showed
'This report was prepared
on DATE by TEAM MEMBER' was moved from the end of the report to
the sub-heading.
Click here to
download a zipped file that contains four corrected WordPerfect templates
-
if you have modified the original templates that came with Amicus
Attorney, you
may want to copy them to a safe location first. If you selected to
install WordPerfect
sample files when Amicus was installed, you will find the
four templates in your
Team50\Templates\Document folder - the names of the files and
templates are
listed below:
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x002cft.frm -
Contacts by File (WordPerfect)
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x002cap.frm -
Contact Index - Address & Phone (WordPerfect)
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x002fft.frm -
Files Index (WordPerfect)
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x002fcl.frm -
Files Index - by Client ID (WordPerfect)
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Archiving
and De-Archiving Amicus Records
Click here to
download & print a document that will give you the pros and cons
involved with Archiving and De-Archiving Amicus Files and/or
Contacts.
If you have not
already talked to an Amicus Certified Consultant, you may want
to consider asking about the Streamline Database feature, or
having a consultant
help you do a Backup and Restore, which should reduce the size
of your Amicus
database. If you are still considering archiving records,
please read this document
first, which will highlight special notes about Archiving and
De-Archiving, as well as
giving you step-by-step instructions for:
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WordPerfect
New Features (From Version 6.1 to Version 12)
Click here
to
download & print a 14-page document
which shows:
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WordPerfect
Keyboard Shortcuts
Click here
to download & print a 1-page document
with keystroke combinations to:
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Word
Keyboard Shortcuts
Click here
to download & print a 1-page document
with keystroke combinations to:
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