Fix to Internet Explorer Prompt - "Application blocked by security settings your security settings have blocked an untrusted..."

This is a simple prompt that is easy to fix. I received this error when I applied for a PLDT myHome and Consumer Bills online account, to see my bills online.

When I opened my bills I always get an "application blocked" prompt. I just click continue but I cannot download the bill. I can only view it. Fixing it made it possible for me to download the bill.

The one blocking the app is Java. So the fix is to go into it's options and configure it.

1. Java configurations can be accessed by either typing "Configure Java" in the start menu or going to Java in the program listing of the start menu and locating it.
2. After the Java window pops up, simply click the Security tab and press the "Edit Site List".
3. Press Add first, then type in the website shown in the "application blocked" prompt. Press Add again. It will then be included in the Exception Site list.
4. Open the bill again after restarting your internet explorer / browser. You will be asked by a prompt asking to run a program. Press Run. This is always asked every time this window is opened.
5. You will see something different at the bottom. But now you can use and press the download button above. Try it...

 The Java window should look like this:

Hope this helped some people.

Fixed (Catalyst Control Center cannot be started. There are currently no settings that can be configured...)

Hi guys, I encountered a problem with my ATI Radeon HD 4670 Video Card when I reformatted my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1. I downloaded the 13.9 Legacy Driver from the AMD / ATI website. After installing the driver, I expected to get a prompt to restart the PC because that is what normally happens when installing a Video Card driver...but in this case, I did not. So I was already thinking something is fishy. So I checked the notification icons for the ATI / AMD icon, I saw no icon. I right clicked on the desktop screen and saw the usual Catalyst Control Center option. I clicked it and as I expected...an error prompt, "Catalyst Control Center cannot be started. There are currently no settings that can be configured..."

Disturbed already...I still went on my reformatting...but as I installed Adobe Creative Suite...I got a whole lot of errors...most of which pointing to system / PC requirements not being met...So this brought me to think it had something to do with the ATI Video Card.

Searching in the internet, I found some suggested fixes that worked for some...but not for me. To list them down, these are:

1. Manually updating the display driver in the device manager. By pointing the driver installation to the downloaded ATI driver.
2. Another is installing "ccc2_install.exe" to C:\Program Files\AMD\CCC2\Install. (I cannot find the program.)
3. Last is basically uninstalling the Video Card Driver and complete software and then using an AMD Clean Uninstall executable file.

After so many searches...I decided to use CPU-Z to determine the exact video card name and model because some downloaded drivers can be for a series like ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series for my ATI Radeon HD 4670. I looked up for a solution and still got the same results. So I decided to combine everything that I got above...and fixed my problem...

Simply, this is what I did:

1. I downloaded the latest ATI Radeon HD 4670 driver from the AMD website.
2. I also downloaded AMD Clean Uninstall Utility 1.4.0.0 from softpedia.
3. I uninstalled AMD from the Program and Features of Control Panel.
• Picking the express uninstall option.
4. After I deleted the AMD folder in the C: drive. (You can also delete all the files in the %temp% folder. - Type %temp% in the start menu search.)
5. I ran the AMD Clean Uninstall Utility and restarted.
6. I then, went on to install the latest 13.9 Legacy driver (latest as of this time) I previously got from the AMD site.
7. At the end of the installation, I got an error prompt showing not all programs installed and there was a link to a log of the installed programs. Clicking it, I saw that everything installed except only one program, the driver.
8. So I manually opened the device manager and uninstalled the display driver.
9. After, I reupdated the display driver and pointed it here: C:\AMD\. (This should be done after steps 6 to 7.)
10. I finally opened the Catalyst Control Center from the context menu at the desktop screen.

I do not know if this will work for you but I am just saying this worked for me...Hope this also works for many of you. Good luck!

Small Office / Home Office (SOHO) Network Upgrading

For this week I've been looking at our office network setup and I just want to upgrade it...

Our small office / home office (SOHO) setup:

1. Internet Connection - 1mbps pldt mydsl

2. Router - 150 mbps wifi-a/b/g/n with 1 10/100 wan and 4 10/100 lan ports, single band

3. Setup - All devices are only connected wirelessly. With 1 Lan port extending to my brother's wifi router

4. Connected Devices
>Office: 1PC and a max of 2 laptops

>Brother's router: 1PC and a laptop wirelessly connected
>Others: Probably a total of 4-7 smartphones and a NAS coming this January to serve as Samba, ftp and cloud server.
>Not Connected: CCTV and Smart TV (Ethernet Only / No Wifi)

5. Use - Email, internet browsing, light streaming and social networking. (Upon NAS inclusion, also data-linked records and reports updating and safekeeping)

6. Notables - We use printers. We also have occassional seminars in our place wherein as many as 30+ guests visit us for our company presentation. Some areas of our office not reached by wifi.

Upgrade Solution Plan
>DSL: 3mbps
>Router: 150mbps Wifi-N + Wifi-N Access Point
>Connections: Wired ethernet - Bro's Wifi Router, NAS, CCTV and an additional wifi access point
>Printers: 2 printers are shared to the network through PC USB 2.0. (Printers are shared on the PC)
*The access point will have scheduled usage only and have ethernet connections to the PC and Smart TV.