Glo Networks Technical Blog (Glo Blog)

For ages I’ve been running Office 2007 on Vista x64 and now Windows 7 x64. Both suffer from Outlook not being able to preview PDF files. Providing the following error -

This file cannot be previewed because of an error with the following previewer:

PDF Preview Handler for Vista

To open this file in it’s own program, double-click it.

People have been installing other 3rd party tools to fix this problem, however here’s the perfect fix (it doesn’t even need a reboot).

To enable the preview of PDF files in 64-bit OSs, do the following:
1. Start the Registry Editor (Start – Run – Regedit.exe).
2. Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}.
3. Change the AppID value to {534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}.

Or create a Registry file -

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}]
“AppID”=”{534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}”

Posted by Chris in Desktops and Laptops, Software | No Comments »

Spotted this on Engadget the other day. Using your macBook’s large mouse pad (trackpad) as a tablet ! Looks like a great idea though is it really big enough and more than just a gimic ?

Made by Ten1Design.

Posted by Chris in Desktops and Laptops, Laptop Hardware, Software | No Comments »

Google have finally released Chrome for Mac OSX. It is now out for OSX 10.5 or above and for intel Mac’s only.

You can download it here it is only Beta at the moment so use it with caution but if the windows version is anything to go buy its quite stable.

It doesn’t look like some features are quite ready yet, for example there is no sign of bookmark syncing that is in the latest beta of Google Chrome on Windows.

Posted by Dave in Desktops and Laptops, Software | No Comments »

VMWare are releasing a new version of Fusion, The software that enables you to run Windows virtually on your mac. The latest version is promising a few nice features.

Once of the most important being ‘Optimized for Snow Leopard’ which adds 64-bit core engine and native support for 64-bit kernel, the current version of Fusion does not support having a 64-bit kernel.

They have also made improvements to 3D graphics with support OpenGL2.1 and DirectX 9.0c and new Windows 7 experience.

VMWare Fusion 3.0 will be available on the 27th Oct. world wide, there will be a charge for the new version though upgrades will be around £30 and £60 for the full version.

Posted by Dave in General, Software | 2 Comments »

Glo Networks are about to launch their new online backup solution. In the past we’ve used and resold solutions by some of the worlds biggest players but always found their costs and feature set clashing.

How would you like a fully managed backup for your desktop with 10GB of data for under £13 per month ?

More info later this week ….

Posted by Chris in Desktops and Laptops, Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Servers, Small Business Software, Software | 4 Comments »