This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.

I did [...]]]> Recently, when clicking on a link in an email in Outlook 2007, all that would happen is pop up saying:

This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.

I did a few quick searches with no solutions found. Microsoft’s support site had a number of solutions that were not solutions for this problem. I was getting frustrated with it so today I started a methodical approach to try and find the solution. I eventually ended up on the SlipStick.com site which finally got me the solution I needed. Their first two solutions where the same as what I had found on Microsoft’s site. But their Edit Registry, Part 2 was what I needed to resolve the problem.

In my case, I had tried UltraEdit to see if I wanted to purchase that tool or not. I eventually decided not to purchase it so I uninstalled it. Well, their uninstall process left a lot of “junk” in the registry. Because of that junk, if finally came back and caused me problems, so after backing up the registry, I manually searched the registry, cleaning out everything to do with with UltraEdit, then running CCleaner on the registry multiple times to clean it up.

I don’t know that IDM Computer Solutions, makers of UltraEdit, is any worse than any other software developer. But if their uninstall process did a better job of cleaning up after itself, I wouldn’t be blaming them for the problem I experienced. They left dozens of pieces in the registry, including the culprit which caused my problem – an entry for .html pointing to their uninstalled editor. Because of this, I highly recommend against their products.

The beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because—by pure chance—the sun is 400 times larger than the moon but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making [...]]]> Do you know about the symmetry behind a solar eclipse?

The beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because—by pure chance—the sun is 400 times larger than the moon but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.

The moon’s shadow zooms across Earth’s surface at up to 5,000 miles per hour.

The artificial sweeteners saccharin and aspartame were found accidentally when lab workers doing research that had nothing to do with sweetening put a bit of the test compounds [...]]]> Did you know that several artificial sweeteners discovery was by accident?

The artificial sweeteners saccharin and aspartame were found accidentally when lab workers doing research that had nothing to do with sweetening put a bit of the test compounds in their mouths and liked what they tasted.

The scientists who discovered sucralose (now sold as Splenda) were originally trying to create an insecticide. An assistant thought he had been instructed to “taste” a compound he’d only been asked to “test.”

A compound called lugduname is the sweetest compound known—more than 200,000 times as sweet as table sugar.

Can you imagine eating 16 sugar cubes at one sitting? You probably have. That’s a little less than what is contained in a 20-ounce [...]]]> Do you know how many cubes of sugar are in a 20-ounce bottle of cola?

Can you imagine eating 16 sugar cubes at one sitting? You probably have. That’s a little less than what is contained in a 20-ounce bottle of cola.

The average American eats 61 pounds of refined sugar each year, including 25 pounds of candy. Halloween accounts for at least two pounds of that.

The loudest human burp ever recorded—107.1 decibels, about as loud as a chain saw from three feet—was produced by Londoner Paul Hunn in September 2008. On TV, [...]]]> Do you know how loud, the loudest human burp ever recorded was?

The loudest human burp ever recorded—107.1 decibels, about as loud as a chain saw from three feet—was produced by Londoner Paul Hunn in September 2008. On TV, no less.

The small intestine contains so many folds—down to the microscopic level—that its total surface area is about 2,700 square feet, enough to cover a tennis court.

For a period, starting in the 15th century, French playing-card manufacturers assigned to each of the king cards names taken from history or mythology. This practice had [...]]]> Do you know who each king is in a deck of cards?

For a period, starting in the 15th century, French playing-card manufacturers assigned to each of the king cards names taken from history or mythology. This practice had largely disappeared by the 19th century. The most common names for the kings were:

• King of Spades: David (a biblical king)
• King of Hearts: Charles (presumably after Charlemagne)
• King of Diamonds: Caesar (presumably after Julius Caesar, dictator of the Roman Republic)
• King of Clubs: Alexander (king of Macedon)

Source: Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia, “A desert is a landscape or region that receives almost no precipitation. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than [...]]]> Do you know what is the largest desert on Earth?

According to Wikipedia, “A desert is a landscape or region that receives almost no precipitation. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 10 inches per year, or as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation.”

Based on that definition, the world’s largest desert is the continent of Antarctica; it is the world’s driest place. It receives less than two inches of precipitation annually. Antarctica is 5.5 million square miles in area, over one and one-half times larger than the one we most commonly think of, the Sahara Desert. The second largest desert is the Arctic. Coming in third is the Northern Africa’s Sahara Desert, which is more than 3.5 million square miles , slightly smaller that the size of the United States, the world’s fourth largest country.