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Ever want to find an picture on the internet?  Tough, huh?  Ever want to find a picture but found something close, but it wasn’t quite right?  Yup.  Well, try this!  Search By Image

Yeah, that is Google’s Search By Image.  Paste the url of the image that is close (or an image you want to see something else similar) and Google will deliver up a few images that appear to match what you have provided.

Let’s see how it does:

Here is my creation, Monkey with a Phaser:

Visually similar images found by Google SBI:

>>> Follow this link <<<

Not a bad job!  Not really Guerrilla Administration, but at least I included a monkey.

C:\IPCONFIG

WHOA!!!!!!!

That’s a LOT of devices… not just the 5 or 6 usually listed… I had HUNDREDS.  What’s going on?  I don’t want them there, even if they are important!

Turns out they aren’t really that important, especially if you are one of the millions of users still using IPv4 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) IP address configuration.  Windows 7 ships with both IPv4 and IPv6 already enabled.  All those tunneling adapters are translators from IPv6 to IPv4.  But since we aren’t using IPv6, let’s get rid of them.  They slow down the machine when there are hundreds, and if you want any USEFUL information from IPCONFIG the getting rid of is easy.

First, uncheck the IPv6 option in your Adapter Settings dialog box and click OK.

If it were THAT easy this post would not be necessary.  It isn’t that easy.  When you retype IPCONFIG at a CMD window the tunnel adapters are still listed.  Don’t bother disabling and re-enabling the network cards or starting and stopping the wireless service or even rebooting.  They won’t work.

Second, you probably (99% sure) will need a program from MS called DEVCON.EXE.  This is the key to the rest of the process.  If you are running Windows 7 64 bit (and many of us are) you can get it at this >>link<<.

Put the program somewhere you can access it easily from a CMD window (such as %HOMEPATH%).
Open a CMD window to that directory and type this:

DEVCON REMOVE *6TO4MP

After you hit ENTER, depending on how many of those things have built up over the months, it can take a minute or two.  Eventually the program will give you the all clear and when you type IPCONFIG again, *POOF* they are all gone.

So, no more swirling down the digital doo-doo drain!  You’ve just fixed it on your own.  Good luck.

Windows 7 (and Vista and even Xbox) will encounter this error, and there are numerous fixes in the cloud to remedy this problem.  I’ll quickly list my attempts failures, and then describe what I did that finally did succeed.

I tried editing the Firewall to allow all the Microsoft sites access.  No help.

Updating the Network Card device driver.  Nothing.

Reinstalling several .dll files mentioned at some sites.  Did not work.

Edited the registry to change the MTU (maximum transmission unit).  Zilch.

Swearing loudly.  I felt better but the machine ignored me.  Zip.

Re-performed all those things logged in as the local administrator.  Up until now I did it as the local user and just upped the privileges when asked by 7.  Lots of time but no effect.

Finally I started to think outside the box/cubicle.  I remembered one of the .dll files was java-something-something.dll.  I began to wonder… did this machine have updated Java?  No, it did not.

I updated Java (to 6r30) over the web, rebooted, and heeeeeeey!!!!  That worked!

Once again, the simplest solution was the correct one, and once again, it was one of the Big 3 Things (Windows Updates, Java, and Antivirus).  So, long story short, if the propeller heads start directing you to edit this registry entry and modify that policy object STOP.  Try the simple things first!  It will only take a small amount of time and many times WILL solve the problem.

A customer came up to me a few minutes ago and asked me if she could undelete some emails.  Well, she did not so much come up to me and ask.  There was a bit of a sense of urgency in her voice.  Well, not so much urgency as it was panic.  And she did not ask, per say, it was more like this —————————–>

Naturally I said, no.  Almost every answer I give is NO, but then I do a Scotty (yes, from Star Trek) and say, “Unless…” and I check with Google (the Tech Support Guy’s Secret Weapon).  Low and behold there was a way to undelete emails that have been purged from the Recycle Bin… IF the Exchange Server is set up for such a contingency.  Luckily ours is.

Here is a shoutout to the guys over at addictivetips.com for their solution.

It goes like this: first click on your Deleted Items folder, next select the Folder tab, and if the Exchange Server is configured for it the Recover Deleted Items button will not be grayed out.  But never fear, if the server is not configured properly the link above will give you step by step instructions on how to fix that as well.

Good luck!