This can someone be the result of bad RAM or Video RAM. Try to change the video memory in the BIOs from the lower number (usually 32MB/64MB) to the higher number (64/128MB) if this does not work try the following below to repair the “NTUser.DAT” file that has become corrupted/damaged on the User Account.

First we have to reveal Hidden files & folders:

1. Click Start
2. Click Documents/My Documents
3. Click Tools
4. Click Folder Options
5. Click View
6. Click Show Hidden Files, Folders, and drives.
7. Click Ok

Now we have to create a new administrator user account:

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click User Accounts
4. Select New Account
5. Set privileges to Administrator
6. Now log out of the damaged account and login to your newly created User Account.
7. Click Start
8. Click My Computer/Computer
9. Click on C:
10. Navigate to Documents & Settings
11. You should have a list of User Accounts on your computer shown; go into the “damaged” User profile folder.
12. Right click ntuser.dat and select rename to: ntuser.bak (bak=backup)
13. Open up a new explorer Window by clicking Start and choose My Computer/Computer
14. Navigate to c:WINDOWSREPAIR
15. Right click ntuser.dat and select Copy
16. Go back to the damaged profile folder right click a blank space and select Paste
17. Now log out
18. Now we need to log back into the damaged User Profile again.
19. Windows will now use the NTUser.dat file we copied across earlier to regenerate a new set of undamaged files, do not worry if your theme has changed or things don’t look quite right.
20. Once the User Account has finished loading we need to log-out and switch back to the newly created account again.
21. Click Start
22. Click My Computer/Computer
23. Click on C:
24. Navigate to Documents & Settings
25. Click on the damaged User Profile account
26. Now right click the NTuser.dat file to:ntuser.old
27. Right click the ntuser.bak file we renamed earlier and select rename and rename it back to NTUser.DAT.
28. Log out of the User account and log back into the damaged User Profile, it should now be fixed.

Sample CSV (Comma Separated Values File) for migration to Google Apps using the Apps Migration tool from Exchange. The bottom is a sample of the heading needed for Google to recognise it.

[email protected]#password,[email protected]

[email protected]#password,[email protected]

[email protected]#password,[email protected]

First we use a web-based tool called “Friends To Gmail” which collates the data from your Facebook friends such as Name, Birthday and Biography information (currently this does not support Phone Numbers).

1. Open Friends to Gmail
2. Click on “Connect With Facebook”
3. Login/Authenticate using your Facebooks data, you might want to select the security settings for this transactions to allow only you to see any information posted.
4. Click Next
5. Friends to Gmail will then go through and collect your friend’s data; it will then list all the data in a huge frame.
6. Using your mouse left click the first part of your friends data and drag the mouse down to the bottom select the data as you go once everything is selected right click a highlighted part and left click Copy.
7. Now we need to paste it as a file Google Contacts will be able to read, the easiest way to do this is to open up Notepad. Click Start
8. Click Programs
9. Click Accessories
10. Click Notepad
11. Right click in your brand new Notepad document and left click Paste
12. Once your data has been pasted into the Notepad document click File, Save
13. Save your document in an easily accessible replace and name it “facebook.csv”
14. Now we head to Google Contacts
15. Click More
16. Click Import
17. On the Import Contacts dialog select “Choose File”
18. Locate and select your facebook.csv file and click Save
19. Click Import
20. Google will now import the data from Facebook into its database and create a new contact group.
21. Click on the new contact group on the left (which should be named depending on the date/time) and click Find & Merge Contacts up the top.
22. Google will then display a list of changes to contacts you already have and allow you to merge the changes into the new contacts.
23. Once done you can remove the Group and you have now imported your contact information.

If you have an Android phone and want to import your friends profile pictures from Facebook to Google Contacts, good news there is a free utility you can use.

First you need to head to Google Play and download a tool called Contact Picture Sync to your Android device.

1. On your Android device, open Contact Picture Sync

1. Click Start
2. Navigate to Programs/Accessories
3. Right click Command Prompt and select Run As Administrator
4. Type: secedit /configure /cfg %windir%infdefltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose
5. Press Enter
6. Wait for it to complete the operation and the permissions should be reset back to Factory Settings.

If the above does not work, try this Security Restore Utility.

This has also been reported as the fix for Windows Update Error #8007005

Problems getting Security Essentials installed? Try these tips below.

1. Remove any old Antivirus software that could be causing incompatibility with Security Essentials
2. It is likely that some parts of the old antivirus are remaining, such as Norton’s Symantec services. Attempt running the antivirus removal tools from the developer’s websites to remove leftover traces.
3. Download & install the latest Microsoft Windows Installer & attempt Security Essentials install.

Still not working? Then try the following.

1. Run a System File Checker (Start, Run type: cmd then press Enter to open Command Prompt, then type sfc /scannow then press Enter) – You may need your operating system CD at this point if it needs to grab files off it.
2. Open Command Prompt, following the instructions above & type: “reg delete HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/SQMClient/Windows/DisabledSessions /va /f” press Enter.
3. Attempt reinstall.