Tips and tricks around Microsoft Windows, Linux, Applications, etc.

The following is a random list of tips and tricks to solve problems around the Windows and Linux operating systems, and applications running under those OSs. The list is in no particular order and we rely on search engines to find this stuff. That's why there is always a keyword entry under each heading. If you find it useful, drop us a note. Contact info can be found on our home page.

Excel autorecover file trouble

If Excel has trouble starting up with a recover file, you can delete that file by using regedt32.exe and deleting the entry from

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
  Software
    Microsoft
      Office
        10.0 (or other version)
          Excel
            Resiliency
              DocumentRecovery

Linux mdadm boot problem

My Linux server died and it's using a soft raid array for / and everything below that. It crashed due to an electrical short in the building. The thing never came back up.

Here are some links to useful information I (and other people) found on the subject. Eventually, I could recover all data, but had to re-install Ubuntu and convert the root filesystem to software RAID again.

• mdadm - A new tool ...
• Recovery of RAID and LVM2 Volumes
• md: invalid raid superblock magic
• More mdadm stuff
• UUID and mdadm
• creating a software raid 5 array in ubuntu with mdadm
• Convert root file system to RAID
• Debian Root RAID documentation

Fun stuff

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