Skype settings

Written in the mid-afternoon in English • Tags: ,

For whatever reason my Windows desktop profile is not reflected to my Citrix apps. So I get to figure out the settings that I’ve changed over the years all over again.

In Skype for Business I want a fixed width font and no emoji.

  • Click the Settings menu in the main Skype window (the cog icon).
  • Select IM on the left.
  • Uncheck the box for Show emoticons in messages.
  • Click the Change Font button and choose Consolas.

How to fix stuck updates

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Windows Update has been getting stuck checking for new updates for the past several months. The automatic update somehow manages to complete, at least sometimes, but running a check manually doesn’t complete within a couple of days. It should be more like minutes, shouldn’t it? (more…)

Leave my line breaks alone

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I should have noted this Outlook tip with the fixed font one earlier:

  • File > Options > Mail
  • Scroll way down to the Message Format section
  • Uncheck Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages

What are “extra line breaks” anyway? Removing them does bad things to code.

Fixed width plain text in Outlook

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One less Outlook annoyance: How to show fixed font for plain text

  • File > Options > Mail > Stationery and Fonts
  • Set the font for plain text e-mails to a monospaced font (e.g. Consolas)

Why is this not the default…

Disabling 6to4 and Teredo

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Windows tries to use 6to4 and Teredo automatically, not always resulting in a good IPv6 experience. To disable both, execute these commands:

netsh interface ipv6 6to4 set state disabled
netsh interface teredo set state disabled

On Windows XP teredo isn’t a context inside interface, but rather a setting in ipv6:

netsh interface ipv6 set teredo disabled

Sources and more information:

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When you insert a software CD-ROM into the drive on your Windows machine, it can be nice that the installer runs automatically. If you insert a virus infected USB stick, it is not so nice that the virus runs automatically… Microsoft has a knowledge base article about disabling AutoRun (KB953252) on the current versions of Windows. The procedure may require you to install a patch (all instructions are included in the article).
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Adam asked me about an old document I had written about preventing a Windows NT machine from causing an ISDN router to dialup unnecessarily. I think I had junked the document as too old, but maybe it still is a useful reference. So I have restored it from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.