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How to Reset Your Windows 10 PC

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1. Navigate to Settings. You can get there by clicking the gear icon on the Start menu. 2. Select "Update & security" 3. Click Recovery in the left pane. Windows presents you with three major options: Reset this PC, Go back to an earlier build and Advanced startup. Reset this PC is the best option for starting fresh. Advanced startup lets you boot off a recovery USB drive or disc and "Go to an earlier build" is made for Windows Insiders who want to roll back to a previous version of the OS.  4. Click Get started under Reset this PC. 5. Click either "Keep my files" or "Remove everything," depending on whether you want to keep your data files intact. Either way, all of your settings will return to their defaults and apps will be uninstalled.  6. Select "Just remove my files" or "Remove files and clean the drive" if you chose to "remove everything" in the prior step. Cleaning the drive takes a lot longer but will m...

B1SiteUser Password Reset and Recovery

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During the installation of the SAP Business One server software you are asked to set a password for the B1SiteUser. The days become months and the months become years before you need to use these credentials and don't remember the password. Fear not! There is an easy solution to reset it! Open up the "Service Manager" program from the start menu. The service manager starts minimized, so it may already be running. Check the notification area of your Windows taskbar for the blue and red icon. Double click the icon to bring up the settings window. Select the "License Manager" from the dropdown in the second box from the top. You want to click the "Settings" button. Now we see the license manager's settings. Find the button on the bottom of the window called "Configure Security". Resetting the B1SiteUser Password This will bring you to a webpage on your server. There might be some issues with web browsing on your server depending on security ...

How to uninstall Windows Updates

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When Microsoft released this month's updates for its Windows operating system, no one could foresee the troubles it would cause some customers of the system. Shortly after installing the update, some customers experienced blue screen of death errors which prevented the system from booting into the operating system or even safe mode. Depending on how tech-savvy users are that experienced the issue, they may have managed to regain control of the system by using system restore or by restoring a backup of the system. The patch MS14-045 was quickly identified as the cause and Microsoft has pulled its download for the time being which means that current updates should not cause any related issues to users anymore. Microsoft recommends to customers to uninstall the updates (2982791, 20960028, 2075710 and 2975331) but does not reveal how that is done on the bulletin page. This article walks you through the uninstallation of Windows Updates in general using the two aforementioned updates a...

SAP Business One Profit and Loss Statement

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The SAP Business One Profit and Loss Statement shows the profit (or loss) of your business for the fiscal year/ selected period. It explains the change in the company’s value. The bookkeeping balance of the Profit and Loss accounts in SAP Business One has to be cleared at the end of each fiscal year – this is the Period End Closing. The Profit and Loss Accounts in SAP Business One – reflect the changes in the company value, such as: sell stock – cost of goods sold, increase revenues. If you want to select all your statements you must leave the from date and select the last statement on the to date. In SAP Business One you can select whether you want to do an annual report, Quarterly report, Monthly report or Periodic report. Accounts in SAP Business One with Balance of Zero – report will include accounts with a balance of zero Foreign Name – report displays the foreign names defined for G/L accounts. Nothing is displayed for accounts for which a foreign name was not defined. Expanded ...

Setup.rll error when installing SQL Server 2012

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Error when trying to run setup.exe for SQL Server 2012: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\SQLServer2012\resources\1033\setup.rll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support." To fix, copy the following: %InstallMedia%\resources\1033\setup.rll to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\SQLServer2012\Resources\1033

Disk resource could not be moved error when installing SQL Server 2012 failover cluster

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SQL Server 2012 failover cluster installation fails with the following error: "The resource 'Disk Z' could not be moved from cluster group 'Available Storage' to cluster group 'SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)'. Error: There was a failure to call cluster code from a provider. Exception message: Generic failure . Status code: 183. Description: Cannot create a file when that file already exists." This comes up when you are installing the SQL instance onto mount points under a root mount point. The cluster install has trouble adding these disk resources to the SQL Server cluster group and setting its dependencies. To fix: 1. The failed installation may have partially installed the SQL instance. If that is the case, uninstall the instance first. Do this by using the "Remove node from a SQL Server failover cluster" option 2. In the Failover Cluster Manager, right click on Roles and select Create Empty Role: 3. Rename the role to your desired instance name...

How to configure your Outlook GMail account

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Why should I use Outlook for my Gmail address? Although the web based system of Google Gmail is one of the most feature rich webmail platforms, you may want to handle your Gmail account & messages from a client email software program such as Microsoft Outlook. For example, if you are using other email addresses and not just the Gmail account, most likely you would want to read and handle all your email accounts from the same interface & program.  Configuring the Outook Gmail settings. You can configure Outlook to handle your Gmail account as a POP3 or as an IMAP account. Depending on your choice, you have to enable the related account option in your Gmail account (Gmail Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP). Below, we will detail how to setup Microsoft Office Outlook 2000 to 2010 to send, receive and store email messages for a Gmail address. Before getting started, please make sure you know your Gmail email address and your Gmail password. Start Outlook: from the main Out...