My IT Experiences

I was completely lost when I saw the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 UI for the first time. It was tough to get used to the tiles and Apps UI. If you are facing similar situation here is a tip to make life easy - Hover mouse on the bottom left corner of the screen, i.e. cordinates X = 0 and Y= 0 in mathematical terms and you get a image like the one below: Right click mouse on this image and you get a menu with all generic options:

MS Word 2010 was acting strange since a couple of weeks, it would crash the moment I add certain quick parts. I was editing a template for content type in SharePoint 2010 document library and it would crash Word. Clicking on the error details shows this: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH   Application Name: WINWORD.EXE   Application Version: 14.0.7106.5001   Application Timestamp: 520b3934   Fault Module Name: wwlib.dll   Fault Module Version: 14.0.7106.5001   Fault Module Timestamp: 520b3985   Exception Code: c0000005   Exception Offset: 000107f6   OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48   Locale ID: 2057 Additional information about the problem:   LCID: 1033   skulcid: 1033 Read our privacy statement online:   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409 If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:   C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt I tried searching for a while but couldn't find any

I hit this issue while publishing a list workflow on our SharePoint 2010 website. It didn't give much of an error so I had no clue what was happening. Apparently I wasn't the first person to experience this annoying SPD limitation. There is an MS KB dedicated to this error but there isn't much of a solution to this. Only practical workaround if you author workflows with large number of steps is to split them in to multiple workflows.