Login box pops up in outlook again and again for gmail accounts : Fix It

In outlook, I have noticed that after configuring a gmail account, the sign in box pops up and asks for the password everytime and even after entering the correct password also, it pops up again and again. So many users think that it's an issue with outlook but NO, it's not the issue with outlook. There is a setting in your google account which needs to be changed to fix this issue. Sometimes, it pops up the following error message also:

To fix this issue, just follow the steps below:

• Open your web browser and sign into your gmail account.
• Now open the Sign-in & Security page of google account, click here to open: CLICK THIS LINK
• If two step verification is ON, then turn it off.
• If "Allow Less Secured Apps" option is OFF, turn it ON.

• Now you may close your web browser and open outlook again, it will not popup for password.

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Easily Fix iCloud and Outlook Error: The set of folders cannot be opened

After the launch of Office 2016, the users of office 365 who installed the Office 2016 upgrade faced so many issues with iCloud and outlook. Contacts were lost, calendars stopped working and outlook launching issues took place. I found two error messages "Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened" and "Cannot expand the folder. The set of folders cannot be opened. The information store could not be opened". Both of these error messages appeared because of icloud (sometimes this type of error message pops up if the pst file is corrupted and to fix the issue we can repair the pst file or reconfigure email address in a new outlook profile). So many users are still facing the same issue but the worst thing is that if you call Microsoft support then they deny for any support for icloud issues (you got a good luck if any techy geek handles your call  and resolves your issue in 10 minutes) and Apple support sends you back to Microsoft.

Resolving the issues with iCloud and outlook is very easy and the steps which I'm gonna provide you resolves most of the issues with icloud and outlook. Follow the steps below:

• The first thing which you have to do is to open the icloud windows app and sign out of the app.

• Now Open control panel and search for Mail (Microsoft outlook 2016) app and open this app.
• Click Show Profiles and then double click on the name of your default profile (generally the default name is outlook)
• Now Mail Setup window will appear. From that window, click Email Accounts button and it will show the list of email accounts configured in your outlook.
• Select the icloud email address from the list and click REMOVE button to delete the previous icloud configuration (don't worry, it will not delete your contacts or any icloud information)
• Now click Data Files tab and remove the icloud data file also.

• Close mail app and control panel now and open run box by pressing Windows+R keys together.
• In the run box, type appwiz.cpl and click OK to open Programs and Features.
• From the list of installed applications, search for icloud app and right click on it and click Change and then repair icloud.

• After completing the repair process, it will ask you to restart the computer, just restart the computer.
• After restarting the computer, open icloud app and then sign into your icloud account.

• After signing in, make sure to check the Mail, contacts,calendars and tasks check-box and click Apply. iCloud will start setting the content with the outlook.

• That's it. Open outlook and you will get all the errors fixed and all your missing contacts and calendars etc will be back in outlook.

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Outlook 2016 stuck on launch screen : Fix it

Windows 10 and office 2016/365 have got so many bugs and even after installing update fixes frequently it seems that Microsoft is not able to completely fix all the issues with it's new software. So many users are reporting that they are facing a strange issue with outlook 2016. After launching outlook 2016, it just gets stuck on launching screen and just says processing and never goes ahead of the blue launch screen. Well, users have reported that they tried everything which a normal user can do like online repair, uninstalling and re-installing office etc but the issue was still not resolved.
Why is this glitch there with outlook, I can't say but to fix this, you just need 4 seconds. Really, I'm not kidding. The fix works with all the Windows 8/8.1/10 devices. For windows 7, this fix doesn't work and you need to follow another process. Let's see how to fix this glitch in outlook.

Outlook 2016 stuck on launch screen : Fix it in Windows 8/8.1/10 computers

• Right click on Start button and click RUN or press Windows+R keys together from your keyboard to open RUN box.
• Now in the RUN box, type outlook /safe and click OK.
• It will launch outlook and will ask you to select profile, just click OK and outlook will be launched in safe mode.
• That's it. Now close outlook and open outlook normally, it will not get stuck on launch screen.

Outlook 2016 stuck on launch screen : Fix it in Windows 7 computers

First try the previous method and if that doesn't work (the second fix works with all Windows versions), then try the following steps:

• Open control panel and search for Mail (Microsoft Outlook 2016) and open it.
• Now click Show Profiles... button.
• Now you will see the name of the mail profile configured in your computer. Generally it's Outlook. Click Add... button and type the name of the new profile as Test and click Ok.
• After that, it will ask you to configure an email address. Just go ahead and configure any email address.
• That's it. Now close the mail app and control panel.
• Now press Windows+R keys together to open RUN box and then type Outlook /profiles and click OK.
• Now outlook will be launched and it will ask you to select profile. Click the dropdown menu and select Test and click OK.
• Outlook will be launched. Now close outlook and then re-open outlook normally, it will not stuck on the launching screen.

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How to enable hibernate option in Windows 10

Hibernate is a good option if you are doing something important and due to some reason you want to turn off your computer but don't want to loose the active screen and other tasks in your computer. Because instead of turning off your computer, if you take it to the hibernate mode, you can get all the things back on the screen as it was before.
By default, hibernate option is not enabled in windows 10 but it is still there in Windows 10. All we need to do is just enable it so that it can appear with the power options. So let's see how to enable hibernate option in Windows 10:

• Right click on the start button and click Control Panel.
• In control panel, search for "Power Options" using the search bar of control panel.
• After getting the power options in search results, click on it to open it.
• After opening Power Options, click on "Choose what the power buttons do" option from the list options given in the left side of the power options window.
• Now on the next page, click "Change settings that are currently unavailable".
• Now on the same page, just look for the "Shutdown Settings" and check the empty box for Hibernate.
• Now click Save Changes and that's it. You can see the hibernate option in the power menu.

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Fix outlook 2016 error for Excel attachments : This file cannot be previewed because there is no previewer installed for it

This file cannot be previewed because there is no previewer installed for it : This is one of the most common issues which Outlook 2016 users are facing. Office 365 users have reported that after upgrading to office 2016, they are getting this error while handling with the excel attachments in outlook. Uninstalling and reinstalling office didn't fix this issue. Online and quick repair also didn't fix this issue.
Well, to fix this issue, you can use a small registry tweak which I'm gonna share here. Just follow the steps given below:

• Open RUN by pressing windows and R keys together.
• In the run box, type regedit and click OK.
• After opening the registry editor, navigate to the location "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\​SOFTWARE\​Microsoft\​Office\​ClickToRun\​REGISTRY\​MACHINE\​Software\​Microsoft\​Windows\​CurrentVersion\​PreviewHandlers"
• Now in the right side panel, delete the string {00020827-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
• Now create a new string and name it to {00020827-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
• Now double click on the string and in the filed of value, type Microsoft Excel Previewer and click OK.
• Now exit from the registry editor and open outlook and try to preview your excel attachments. It will not give any error messages.

If you are a lazy guy and don't want to mess with your registry, then no worries, you can download the registry fix from the link ahead and run it in your computer to fix this issue: Download the Fix

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Stop Windows 10 auto upgrade in Windows 7/8.1

Microsoft has already pushed it's Windows 10 upgrade to the users of Windows 7/8.1 and if we take a look in the microsoft community sites, users are upset about it because whether you want it or not, microsoft wants to you install this upgrade in your computer by forcefully pushing it through windows updates. Several users have reported that their PC crashed after installing this update and they have lost their files because they had to do a clean install of their Windows OS.
Later on, Microsoft said that the upgrade was pushed by mistake and they are working on it to make sure that it doesn't get installed automatically in the PCs of users. But now it seems that they are not leaving any option for the user, it's like "Get it now or you'll get it tonight". Now the question is that what will the people do whose computer is not compatible with windows 10 and what if they don't want to use windows 10 or don't want to buy a new computer?
Well, just for those who don't want to get windows 10, I'm sharing a tool which can stop the upgrade to windows 10 and can get rid of that Get Windows 10 icon also. If you don't want to use a third party tool, then there is one more way to disable this upgrade using a registry tweak but the registry tweak might not stop this upgrade for long time so it will be better if you use the tool "GWX Control Panel".

1. Disable windows 10 auto upgrade and remove GWX icon from taskbar using registry tweak:

• Open run by pressing windows and R keys together.
• Type regedit and click OK.
• Registry editor will be opened. Now navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx"
• Now right click in the white area in the right side and create a new REG_DWORD and name it DisableGwx and set it's value to 1 by double clicking on the name of the dword.
• That's it. Exit from the windows registry and restart the computer.

Remember that it's not the permanent solution because microsoft will undo this change of windows registry by installing some other updates.

2. Disable windows 10 auto upgrade and remove GWX icon from taskbar using GWX Control Panel tool:

The GWX Control Panel tool is developed by Ultimate Outsider. This this can be very helpful if you want to permanently stop windows 10 auto upgrade and get rid of Get Windows 10 icon. You can download this tool from here: Download GWX Control Panel

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Fix for error code 0X8004FC12 while office 2016 activation

If you are using Microsoft Office 2016 and getting the error code 0X8004FC12 at the time of activation, then here is a solution to fix this issue. In most of the cases, I tried uninstalling office completely and reinstalled it in administrator account and it fixed this issue but if you still face this error code and want to resolve it, then use the following methods:

1. Temporarily disable your antivirus and disable your windows firewall and try activating office, it should get activated.
2. If the above option didn't work, then reset your TCP/IP by running the official fixit tool by Microsoft. Download the fixit from this link and run it. Now try to activate your office program.
3. If you still face activation issue, then open the command prompt with administrative rights and run the following commands:

net localgroup Administrators localservice /add
fsutil resource setautoreset true C:\
netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt

Now restart the computer and then try reactivating office again. It should be activated and you should not see any error messages.
4. If the issue is still not resolved, then follow these steps to enable TLS 1.2:
> Open RUN by pressing Windows key + R
> In the run box, type inetcpl.cpl and click OK.
> It will open Internet Properties, click Advanced tab.

> In the list of the available options, scroll down tillthe end and enable Use TLS 1.2 if it is unchecked.
> Now click Apply then OK.

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Fix: Error code 0xc004e016 in Windows 10 activation

Windows 10 activation error code 0xc004e016 is being reported by so many users who upgraded their previous OS to Windows 10. Generally Windows 10 gets activated automatically if you are using a genuine product key in your previous OS but if your upgraded copy of windows 10 is not activated and is giving the error code 0xc004e016 at the time of activation, then you may try to activate your windows 10 using this simple method:

1. Open command prompt with administrative rights. (Press win+X keys and then press A key from keyboard)
2. Now in command prompt, type slmgr /ipk W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX and press enter. It will give you a popup that says that the key is installed.
3. Now type slmgr /skms kms.xspace.in and press enter and wait for the activation message box.
4. Now type slmgr /ato and it should activate your windows 10 copy.

If you are performing a clean installation on a machine that is reserved for free Windows 10 upgrade and you don't know the product key which was installed in your computer, you can use the generic keys provided by Microsoft to install windows 10. Using these keys is not illegal and these keys are genuine.
Windows 10 Home Key: TX9XD-98N7V-6WMQ6-BX7FG-H8Q99
Windows 10 Pro Key: VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T
Windows 10 Enterprise Key: NPPR9-FWDCX-D2C8J-H872K-2YT43

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How to fix flickering screen issue in Windows 10

Hey guys! Windows 10 has really been a hit among all the operating systems by Microsoft. Microsoft is providing Windows 10 to all of its genuine users of Its previous operating systems (Windows 7/8/8.1) free of cost. Although it seems that all the users who got their free upgrades are happy with their new OS but most of the users are reporting so many problems with their upgrade. Among all the emerging issues, the most common issue among them is "Screen flickering issue". Users are complaining that after upgrading their computers to windows 10, screen is flickering and they are not able to do anything with their OS. Manufacturers are suggesting them for a clean install of their old OS and after waiting for hours in call queue, customers are not getting any satisfactory solution from Microsoft support team also.
After handling lots of cases related to screen flickering issue, I noticed that this issue is common among the users who have AMD or NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards installed in their computers. So most of the times, updating the drivers for these graphics cards resolved the issue. But I was looking for a solid way to fix this issue that works with all the computers which has screen flickering issue. So I did some researches and explored the windows services and found an idea that if I disable the service that reports errors in windows, will I be able to resolve this issue? And surprisingly it worked for about 80% of the tests. In 20% of the tests, the issue was with some non compatible drivers which were fixed by uninstalling the driver or disabling the device from device manager. So, I'm explaining the method to fix this problem for almost any computer:

This is the method which worked for me most of the times. Follow the steps:
1. Just turn on your computer and when you login to the computer, press ctrl+shift+esc keys together to open task manager.
2. Now click File and then click Run new task option.
3. Run the task msconfig.
4. Now click Services tab and uncheck "Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel Support" and "Windows Error Reporting Service" services.
5. Click Apply and then OK.
6. Computer will prompt to restart, simply allow it to restart the computer.
7. Now your computer will be rebooted and after restarting the computer, you will see that screen flickering error has gone.

UPDATE 1:
Finally, I have got the exact reason for the flickering screen issue.The culprit is, NORTON ANTIVIRUS. Yes, if you are using Norton Antivirus in your computer and you are going to upgrade your computer to Windows 10, you will face this screen flickering issue. So, before upgrading your computer to Windows 10, uninstall Norton Antivirus and then upgrade.

UPDATE 2:
So many users have reported that they are unable to type "msconfig" at the flickering screen. After typing M, they are unable to type rest of the characters. So here is the easiest solution for you:
1. Press ctrl+alt+delete keys OR windows+L keys together to go to the lockscreen.
2. Now press and hold the shift key and while holding the shift key, click on the power icon in the right bottom corner of the screen and click RESTART.
3. Now you should see a new menu that has Continue and Troubleshoot options. After getting this menu, release the shift key and click TROUBLESHOOT option.
4. Now click Advanced Options
5. Now click STARTUP SETTINGS and RESTART.
6. Your computer should restart now, and on the next screen you should see some startup settings options. Press key 5 from the keyboard to boot into safe mode with networking.
7. When computer is turned on in safe mode, open msconfig and disable the services as mentioned in the main article and restart your computer. It will fix the flashing screen issue.

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Unable to sign in to Windows 10: Fix, Recover the password

Hi guys, here is a cool trick to reset or change the admin password of Windows OS without using any third party application. Most of the times, it happens that we forget our administrator password and the final solution which we get from the support team is to reset or reinstall the computer which causes data loss. But you know, if you are unable to sign in to your computer, a small trick can save your data and can reset your administrator or any user account password. Let's see how to reset the administrator password without signing in to your computer.

1. Create a bootable flash drive or DVD of Windows 10 using media creation tool on any other computer.
2. Now plug in the usb to your computer and boot it with USB.
3. After booting your computer with flash drive, you will see the installation window. Select the language as english and click NEXT.
4. Now on the next screen, click "Repair Your Computer" option.
5. Now you will enter into recovery mode. Select "Troubleshoot" option.
6. Now select "Advanced Options".
7. Now select "Command Prompt" option and command prompt will be popped up.
8. In command prompt, check for the drive in which windows is installed. Use the following command to check the folders inside the drive:
dir X: <press enter> [here, X is the drive letter which is C, D, E... and so on.]
9. If you get the drive which contains "Windows" folder in it, switch to that drive using the following command. For example, suppose your C: drive contains the Windows files, in command prompt, type C: and press enter.
10: Now type the following command to go to system32 folder.
cd windows/system32 <press enter>
11. After selecting the system32 folder in command prompt, type the following commands:
ren sethc.exe setbak.exe <press enter>
ren cmd.exe sethc.exe <press enter>
12. Now exit from the command prompt and restart the computer.
13. After restarting the computer, you will be at the login screen. Now press shift keys continuously for the 5 times.
14. You will see that command prompt is opened on the login screen. Type the following command to check the number of user accounts in your computer:
net user <press enter>
15. Now you will see your username in the available user account list. For example, my user account is Ashutosh, so I'll reset the password for my user account by running the following command:
net user ashutosh 12345 <press enter> [you can replace your username instead of Ashutosh]
16. Now exit from the command prompt and login using the new password 12345.
17. You will see that you are logged in successfully in your computer and you can use it now.
18. If you are logged in using a microsoft account but don't know the password, then you can log in by creating a new user account with administrative rights. To create new user account, use the following commands in command prompt (step 15)
net user /add test 12345
net localgroup administrators test /add
19. Now restart the computer and on login screen, you will get a new user, "test". Just sign in to that account using the password 12345 and you will be signed in.
20. After recovering your account, again repeat the steps 1 to 10 and type the following command in command prompt:
ren sethc.exe cmd.exe <press enter>
ren setbak.exe sethc.exe <press enter>
21. Now restart the computer and use your computer.

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