Installing Tomcat 6 on a 64-bit Windows machine

To install Tomcat on a Windows 64 bit box, you would need to do the following:

1. Grab and install the latest and greatest 64-bit version of Sun Java from here

I am using Java 6, but I am sure other versions will work just as well.

2. Download and install the latest version of Tomcat from here. the current version as on date is : 6.0.20
Now, this version is 32-bit. Next, you will need to obtain a 64-bit version of the tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe binary. It was tricky to find, but there is a post on Apache's Bugzilla containing a pre-compiled file ready for use.

3. Grab it from here.

Note: Make sure you have the same version of tomcat that you initially downloaded and the 64-bit versions of the executables.

For a complete list of the 64-bit versions, goto http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc6.0.x/tags/, click on the right version and then browse to res/procrun/amd64/ to pick up tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe

4. Next, You need to replace the tomcat6.exe and tomcat6w.exe programs in Tomcat's bin directory with the 64-bit versions.

5. Restart the service and you should be good.

I tried this on a Windows 2003 Enteprise Edition R2 x64 and it works fine. However this should also work with other 64 bit Versions of Windows (XP, Vista, 2008, Windows 7)

All the best.

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Naveen Noel J | Sr. Solutions Architect | ZSL, Inc | http://www.zsl.com

Cloud Computing – Use Cases & Best Practices

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Feel free to post your comments or ask any questions.

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Naveen Noel.

Solving Outlook 2007 Error: Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window

Hello Everyone,

Last night when I was opened the outlook to check my e-mails, I was shown welcomed with a horrible error in outlook saying:

Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

I run on Windows Vista with Outlook 2007.

I tried a lot of times, but in vain. I then restarted my system, still no luck.

Then I browsed google and it came up with a few forum links:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/252304

http://forums.techguy.org/business-applications/544134-cannot-start-microsoft-office-outlook.html

I tried all their suggestions in it. But still it did not work... Then I began to get worried as I had a whole lot of mails in it (atleast 2 years data) and to my bad, I never took a backup.

Then one link gave me a suggestion which actually worked.

Basically you would need to locate Outlook.exe and run it with /resetnavpane

Please see the steps below for the non-techies.

Steps:

1. Locate Outlook

Outlook.exe is typically located in one of the following folders, depending on the version of Outlook that you are running:

* Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
* Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11
* Microsoft Outlook 2002
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 10
* Microsoft Outlook 2000
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 9

2. Open a command prompt. Click on Start->Run and type cmd

3. Type cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

Note: This was my case since I was running Outlook 2007, if you are using another version of Outlook, change your directory appropriately.

4. This should change your directory to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

5. Type Outlook.exe /resetnavpane
C:\Users\Naveen>cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12>Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12>

6. This should bring you back to the command prompt, then you are done!!!

7. Try Opening Outlook again and it should work.

Good luck!!!

With Regards,

Naveen...