How to Enable the Root User in Mac OS X

Enabling the Root User Account

Ready to turn on your Mac's superuser account? Here’s how to enable the root user account in Mac OS X and set the password:

1. From the Apple menu, select System Preferences.
   
2. Select Users & Groups.
   
3. Click the lock and authenticate with an administrator account.
   
4. Select Login Options.
   
5. Click Join, as shown in the figure below. 

6. Click Open Directory Utility. The Directory Utility window appears.
   
7. Click the lock and authenticate with an administrator account.
   
8. From the Edit menu, select Enable Root User.
   
9. Enter the password for the root user in the Password and Verify fields.
   
10. Click OK to enable the root user and save the password.
    

Logging in as Root

Now you can log in as the root user at the Mac OS X login screen. When the list of users appears, click Other, type root in the Name field, and enter your root password in the password field. You'll be logged in as root until you log out, restart, or shut down your computer.
Note: To log in as root from the OS X login screen, you must have automatic login and FileVault disabled.

Issues with Spell check not working in all Office Applications

Run regedit and locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0

If you see an entry for “Override” delete it under the “1.0”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override

How to remove stored passwords for users that are being locked out of their domain accounts, due to stored incorrect passwords. Manage User Credentials (Windows 7)

1. Open User Accounts by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking User

Accounts and Family Safety (or clicking User Accounts, if you are connected to a network

domain), and then clicking User Accounts.

2. In the left pane, click Manage your credentials.

3. Click the vault that contains the credential that you want to manage. Click the items that have

your domain name or workgroup name in the accounts and select “Remove from vault”

4. Select the credential you want to manage.

5. Click Edit, make the change you want, and then click Save.

Network adapters not getting DHCP address on either wired or wireless "Limited Connectivity"

TCP/IP stack repair options for use with Windows XP with SP2/SP3.
Go to Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt:
In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following commands:
Note: Type only the text in bold for the following commands. 

Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults, type: netsh int ip reset reset.log
Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults, type: netsh winsock reset catalog
Reboot the machine.
Next, boot in Safe Mode with Networking and connect with a wired connection to your router. Please use a cable and port that have worked for another machine.

How To Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD

To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you need to enter terminal and create a new admin account:
1. Reboot
2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
o mount -uw /
o rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
o shutdown -h now
4. After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!

When a user double-clicks on a drive letter, user gets a program list screen, asking which program to open the drive with or receives the following: Windows cannot find 'AcaRmoNa.ExE'

1. Open My Computer. 
2. Click on Tools>Folder Options. 
3. Check 'Show Hidden Files & Folders' and uncheck 'Hide protected operating system files'. 
4. Go to the root of the drive (example, C:\ ) in Explorer and delete the file autorun.inf if it exists. 
5. Do the same with all the drives exhibiting the same problem and reboot.
   
   If this doesn't fix it, or if you didn't find any autorun.inf file: 
6. Select Start>Run. 
7. Type regedit and hit enter. 
8. Navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2 
9. Expand the key. You should see various folders/keys with the drive names (C,D,E,F etc.) 
10. Make sure that the folders corresponding with the drive names do not have any sub-folders (visible when you click on the '+' sign next to the folder in the left pane) named '_Autoplay' and 'Shell'. 
11. If you see them, highlight them with a single-click and hit delete. 
12. Reboot. 

How to Perform a Windows repair on a Windows XP virtual machine in Fusion 3.x

To repair Windows, you must download a drivers file, mount the drivers, and then repair Windows:

1.     Download the SCSI driver floppy image from http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp. (Do not try to open that link; instead, ctrl+click the link, and choose Save Link As... or Download Linked File As....).

Note: When downloading in Google Chrome, the final extension may be doubled. Ensure that this file is saved asvmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp and not vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp.flp.

2.     Add a floppy drive to the virtual machine and mount the floppy image:

a.     Shut down the virtual machine.

b.     Go to Virtual Machine > Settings > Other Device.

c.     Click + and choose Add Floppy.

A dialog appears asking you to choose a floppy image file. 

d.     Browse to the location of the .flp file that you downloaded and select the file.

e.     Select Connected.

3.     Mount your Windows ISO (or put the Windows disk in the drive) and make sure the CD drive is connected by going to Virtual Machine > Settings > CDs & DVDs and selecting Connected.

4.     After the drivers have finished loading, when Windows prompts you, press S to specify additional devices.

5.     Choose VMware SCSI Controller and press Enter.

6.     Press Enter again to continue past the Specify additional devices screen.

  

7.Press Enter on the Welcome to Setup screen, to indicate you want to set up Windows. This will guide you to the               automated repair, rather than the manual repair option through the Recover Console. 

    8.Press F8 to agree to the End User Agreement.

You see a screen that says:

If one of the following Windows XP installations is damaged, Setup can try to repair it.

9. Select the Windows install that you want to repair, if there is more than one. 

10. Press R to start the repair.

11. Continue with the Windows install wizard to repair Windows, until it completes.

Note for Windows XP 32-bit:

After the repair finishes, disconnect the floppy drive so that Windows does not try to boot from the disk. To do so:

1. When the Setup is restarting screen appears, press Control + Command to release the mouse.

2. Click the picture of the disk image in the Fusion icon tray and select Disconnect Floppy.

Warning: If you do not do this before rebooting, you may receive an error: NTLDR is missing.