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This one puzzled me for a bit trying to fix this. Whenever you went into word trying to use the insert mail merge field facility of the vtiger office plugin it would return the

invalid return value error

The solution was simple. Download a newer version of the plugin. For me the following one worked:
office plugin 5.0.4-rc (my previous version of the vtiger office plugin was 5.0.3)

I found the solution here

http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?p=106144&sid=f10d0023d516f29a9ee8ef2f8b01d10e

Contacted Rosseta stone technical support on the issue and I was told that this was possibly due to the bad shortcut on start menu!!!

I was told to try launching the Rosetta stone program from the program files folder (), from one of these locations.

Windows 7 : C:\Program Files\Rosetta Stone\Rosetta Stone Version 3\

or
Windows 7 (64 bit): C:\Program Files(x86)\Rosetta Stone\Rosetta Stone Version 3\

If it doesn't work, Restart the computer and try again please from the program files folder. May require multiple restarts (2 or 3).

When (and if it works), create a desktop shortcut from the above location, by right clicking the .exe file and please don't open the program from the startmenu anymore.

Can the people at Rosseta not simply write better software that actually works properly with windows 7?

I started using recently Rosetta stove v3. The application is great and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to try to learn a new language. However one day without any warning it stopped working giving me an error of

error 2125: database out of date

Looking at the technical support site of Rosetta I found out that this happens when an online update does not complete. The fix according to their site was to contact their technical support.

Being an inpatient person I experimented a bit and found the following fix:

• find the tracking.db3 file in your appdata folder (for windows 7 its C:\programData\Rosetta Stone\tracking.db3 (hidden folder) and rename it to tracking.db3.bak
• Restart the pc
• launch rosetta stone (all your progress has been lost now)
• close the rosetta stone application
• rename tracking.db3.bak to tracking.db3
• Launch the application again and here you go, you can use it again :-)
Can someone please tell me why Rosetta is not putting this help on their website?

I recently discovered that using pidgin on windows 7 causes problems with the snap feature.

When my screen is locked and I try to login the windows have been rearranged to a smaller area even though the window is not there any more. The problem is that when you try to resize an application window to full size the window does not do so and instead maximises to a smaller area due to the invisible snapped application.

I found that the problem is caused by pidgin which although has been previously unsnapped windows 7 thinks it is still there and all windows are behaving like it is there.

I have found no way to fix this yet but when it does happen I pull pidgin to the other side of the screen forcing it to snap again which appears to reset the windows 7 snap information.

I will also log this as a bag with the pidgin devs.

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Recently my dell xps studio laptop with windows 7 started to crash when running skype 4.1 or skype 4.2. This was a full OS crash as opposed to just a skype crash.

I am not sure what made the crash to suddenly start but I was able to stop it by disabling the audio and microphone volume automatic adjustment in the settings.

Suddenly and without any warning my server stopped recording bandwidth and space usage. After much investigation and without proper support from parallels for one more time I discovered through trial and error that a file in

C:\Program Files\Parallels\Helm4\ScheduledTasks

had been locked (in my case 2.xml) and was partially updated. This meant that the helm application crashed when it was trying to parse an incomplete xml file. This is the definition of bad error handling and poor coding.

Anyway the solution was simple. I deleted the 2.xml file and the control panel became operational again! Not sure if or how I should restore the 2.xml file but for the time being I am happy the thing is running again.

There error message



Helm 4 Application Error.

Unexpected end of file has occurred. The following elements are not closed: translation_variables, result, results, scheduled_task. Line 46, position 30.
Source:
WHA.Helm.ControlPanel.dll /Interface/ScheduledTasks/Tasks.aspx Page_Load
Stack Trace:
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Int32 pos, String res, String arg) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowUnclosedElements() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace) at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc) at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(Stream inStream) at WHA.Helm.Core.CoreEngine.OpenDocument(FileInfo FileObj) at WHA.Helm.Core.CoreEngine.get_ScheduledTasks() at WHA.Helm.ControlPanel.Tasks.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)



Yet another problem with HELM.

Yesterday and for no reason whatsoever my admin username/password were no longer accepted by HELM and I could not reset the admin password (password reset failed error message).

I tried many things without success and in the end the only work around I managed to find was to edit the HEML SQL database (you may need to install the free sql studio express management to do this).

1. Open the Login table
2. Copy and paste the existing user login that does not work as a new row at the end of the table
3. Change the name to admin2 (if it is not taken) and add password the digit 1 - Leave the rest of the details the same
4. Login with the new details (password is 1)
5. reset the password using the normal helm web interface

Use at your own risk as always!