Posted on 30 December 2007 by Weblog in
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To find the optimal size of MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) for your computer to connect to a network / broadband router, perform the test here.
In addition to the information on the test page, it is necessary to change the router MTU size, which is usually done by logging into the web interface and changing the MTU size field on one of the set-up screens.
Default sizes in the UK are:
ADSL = 1458
ADSL2 = 1500 or 1478 if 1500 causes problems
Technorati Tags: ADSL, ADSL2, broadband, maximum transmission unit, MTU, ping
A customer phoned this evening despondent about Sage Instant Accounts not restarting after an earlier program crash. When he tried to start it up it would report:
Username in use
The solution is fairly straight forward: delete the “QUEUE.DTA” file from the ACCDATA folder, which is usually found in one of the subfolders of the Sage program files install directory e.g. c:\Program Files\Sage\Accounts or c:\Program Files\Instant.
Sage should fire up as normal after deleting this file.
More information can be found here if you need it.
If you run into trouble finding the directory or file then try a file search with QUEUE.DTA as the filename you’re interested in finding.
Technorati Tags: ACCDATA, file search, QUEUE.DTA, Sage, username in use
The performance problem and other bugs surrounding Outlook 2007 may well have been fixed by the just released Office 2007 Service Pack 1. There are going to be a load of happy campers now that Outlook 2007 has almost the same performance as Outlook 2003.
Our hat goes off to the Office team for making such a difference, but then it goes back on again when we start to question why such an obvious issue was missed before the release to manufacturing of Office 2007.
If you’ve been having issues with Office 2007, and in particular Outlook, then it is definitely worth installing. You will need to go get it yourself as Microsoft aren’t pushing this out through Microsoft Update for a few months.
Thank you Microsoft and a big thank you Office Team.
Update
Thanks to Tim Anderson for pointing out that their is a list of 450+ fixes, in Excel spreadsheet format, that can be downloaded from here.
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Office, Office 2007, Office 2007 Service Pack 1, Outlook, performance
