Internet Crawls After Adding a VPN Connection

If your internet slows to a crawl after adding a VPN connection then it is most likely because all internet traffic is being routed via the default gateway on the VPN connection. Change this via:-

Control Panel/Network and Sharing Center/Change Adapter Settings/<Your VPN Connection>/Properties/Networking/Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)/Properties/Advanced – Untick Use Default Gateway on Remote Network. (You may also have to change the same setting for TCP/IPv6). Restart the connection. This solution works for connecting Outlook to Exchange Server on the remote network.

Outlook 2010 Constantly Crashing

This was an absolute pain. I found the cause by creating a new profile and adding the accounts that Outlook “front ends” for me one at a time. Eventually I found the offending account. It was an issue with the server for that particular account and nothing to do do with the Outlook side of things. During the troubleshooting I came across a very useful tool, http://www.howto-outlook.com/products/outlooktools.htm.

“No such interface supported” Windows 7

I started getting this error after I did the Windows Anytime Upgrade. I found a neat solution here, Pyrocam.com. I had issues with 3 files – fpacutl.dll, fpcutl.dll, and sdsrvc.dll - which I ignored and have had no other issues so far.
The solution is to register all the dll files in your Windows directory and all its sub-directories except for winsxs. The solution neatly lists all the dlls into a file and then uses search and replace to add the registration command.

edit. Over the following week I noticed occcasional unexpected errors so I did a clean re-install.