Samsung power options grayed out

• You need to disable "Fast Start"
• 
  
• open run 
• 
  
• type fast start
• 
  
• select OFF
• 
  
• close the window

all done

Fix for Blank or White Icons on desktop

To refresh and reset the icons cache, go to the following folder:

C:\Users\\AppData\Local\

1. Once inside the folder delete IconCache.db. 

2. Create a new text file

3. Rename it IconCache.db

4. Right click the file and select properties

5. Check the box for "Read Only" attribute

6. Click Ok


*reboot or continue

7. Open task manager (ctrl+alt+delete)

8. Click Process tab

9. End all process called "explorer.exe"

10. Click File, then New Task (Run)

11. type explorer.exe 

source: http://www.mydigitallife.info/fix-blank-or-white-shortcut-icons-on-desktop/

Resetting Windows Registry key to default permission

Download and Install SunInACL at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23510

1. Create a file using notepad in C:\Program files\windows resource kits\tools

copy the following to it:



subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f


2. save file with the name reset.cmd



3. open command prompt as admin

4. run the following command:
cd c:\Program files\windows resource kits\tools

5. press enter

6. type the following:
reset.cmd

7. press enter

8. The process will take several minutes

Once it is finished the permission will be set to default

Unable to click on link (hyperlink) on any MS office program (outlook, excel, word, powerpoint, etc...)

Error message when clicking on a link in outlook:
"this operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect"

Solutions:


1. Close Outlook
2. Open Internet Explorer.
3. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
4. Click the Advanced tab, and then click the Reset button.
5. On the Programs tab, under Internet programs, click Set Programs, then “Set your Default Programs”,     select your e-mail program and click “Set this program as Default”. Repeat for Internet Explorer.
6. Click OK and close the dialogs.

->If that doesn't fix it try this


1. Start, click Run, type Regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.

2. Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.html

3. Right click the value for the .html key and select Modify…

4. Change the value from “ChromeHTML” to “htmlfile” (or from FireFoxHTML to htmlfile)

Value for Chrome = "ChromeHTML" 
Value for Internet Explorer = "htmlfile"
Value for FireFox = "FireFoxHTML"

     - change value to what default browser you want

5.Check the following registry keys if needed:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.html
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.htm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.shtml
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.xht
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.xhtml


source: http://www.slipstick.com/problems/this-operation-has-been-cancelled-due-to-restrictions#set