SharePoint Designer in Contributor Mode

Problem: SharePoint Designer Automatically switches to Contributor Mode! Another day, when I was trying to open a SharePoint site in SharePoint Designer, it automatically opened in the contributor mode! Troubleshooting: So I tried: Prompt for user name and password security settings in IE, then re-opened the SPD. Yes, It prompted me the…

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SharePoint Search service is in Hung state, Starting or Stopping?

Yes, it happened this morning. I’m unable to do a search on my MOSS website. When tried search, I got an error: “The search request was unable to connect to the search service.”  when I tried to do a full crawl, then it hangs there with the “Starting” stage, Then I tried to stop and start the Office…

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How to Remove All Responses from SharePoint Survey?

How to delete all the survey responses in SharePoint 2007 all at once without having to go through deleting one at a time? Datasheet view? Oops, it doesn’t support the datasheet view. How to Delete All Survey Responses and results in one click? Here is an easy solution: Go to Site Actions…

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Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion – Error in SharePoint Site

SharePoint site gave an error message in browser “Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion” . Resolution: Not sure, What went wrong, But I did an Application pool recycling, which made the site up!!! When the same error occurred during a Search, I Restarted “Search Query”…

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