Stopping "You have been logged out of the .net messenger server"

My MSN Messenger is not set to automatically start when I boot windows. When I do choose to start it, I always get a message saying that I have been automatically logged out of .net messenger service. The problem is I never logged into that server and don't want to.

Even more annoying is that even when I hadn't started MSN Messenger I would receive messages from people.

To stop this from happening you need to disable Windows Messenger from starting when Windows boots. To do this:

Click Start > Run.

Enter gpedit.msc and click OK.

Click on User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Messenger.

Enable both settings and re-start your machine.

There you go.

Problem with FrontPage search reults

FrontPage allows you to ‘publish’ a website to a server. The problem is our server is internal, and can not be accessed from the internal network via http. Using FrontPage’s ‘Publish website’ utility, you can publish a site using a web address eg. http://www.someaddress.com/. In our case, this was not possible due to our router configuration. Instead we had to use an internal IP address. This does not have any affect on accessing the site from outside our network. Externally it can be viewed without a hitch. The problem is when it comes to performing a search on the site, externally, using FrontPage’s web search component.

When performing a search internally to the page, results were returned. Externally they were not. This was hard to understand considering the site was working. Why couldn’t it find what we are looking for?

The problem appeared to be that when you use the publish website utility (and you are using FrontPage’s web search component), a folder on the server, in the directory you are using, named “_derived” is created. Included in this is a file (search.htm0.htx) that the search uses to perform the search (as far as I can tell).

Within this file it stores a <base> tag. This tag tells the address of where search needs to look. We found that this file was in fact pointing to the internal IP address of the server. Therefore, when you publish a site via this method the search takes the address of the location you are publishing to. Makes sense, sure – but BLOODY ANNOYING and confusing if you didn’t know this folder and file were created on the server end only. Changing the <base> address to the URL of the server solved this problem. The downside is, you must change this address each time you publish to the server, as it reverts back to the internal server IP.

Outlook 2000 error - Could not save item. The messaging interface has returned an unknown error

When adding a new item into my calendar in Outlook recently, this error occured.

Could not save item. The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook.

Well the problem persisted and I restarted Outlook which didn't solve it.

The problem seems to be that Outlook is full. The solution is basically to delete some items from the calendar. I did this and could immediately save a new entry.

To solve the problem longer term, I reduced the number of months I am keeping in the calendar by setting the AutoArchiving feature to 36 months.