A user at one of my clients ran into this today. He couldn’t open any images that were attached to Outlook. (Outlook 2003) Â I first just cleared out any temp files in c:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Temp folder and reset it to NOT be read only. Also reset all perms in that folder and […]
I don’t know how users have been managing to get into a bind with this, but twice in the last couple weeks I’ve been called by people with no internet access, yet they still have server file shares working. Â Everything seems fine in their adapter settings for IP and browser […]
I setup a new computer for a client, and Windows 7 would not map the drives in the logon script for the domain account. Ran into this issue, again. Our domain uses a VBScript as our login script, and it appears to run. It runs correctly if started manually, just […]
Somehow my wife got MyWebSearch loaded on my Windows 7 computer, which cleaned off fine, except for Firefox web searching! Every time I used the Awesome Bar to search, MyWebSearch showed the results. Easy fix… Â go to “about:config” in Firefox by typing it in the URL bar. Â In the Filter […]
I was asked about the resources used on the Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 using either Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, or JoliCloud operating systems. Â So… here’s what I found… I didn’t do anything fancy, just boot each up and look at their system/task managers. Â The Linux systems have Chromium/Google Chrome […]
Quick note about using chntpw command to reset Windows passwords. Mostly, I just couldn’t remember what the command line program was or the switches. Boot to System Rescue CD. mount the Windows drive RW (mine was RO) cd to the config dir: cd /mnt/sda1/Windows/System32/config Backup your sam,security,system,software (just copy them […]
We have Exchange accounts in Outlook 2010 and the Global Address List would not update. One reason was due to an error on our server (address in another post), but then the default times to update are 24 ours, and that’s too long. On our internal systems, we want Cached […]
I tested Windows 7, Jolicloud, Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick, and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid on my new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) Netbook. Â First let me say, Window 7 on this netbook is barely usable. If you wait for the OS to finish booting, which takes at least 5 minutes before all […]
MsMpEng.exe – Antimalware service executable I generally do not have any issues with Microsoft Security Essentials. It just works, and does its job quite well. Â From time to time I notice some weird issues on my client computers, where MsMpEng.exe (Antimalware service executable) is using way too many and high […]
Microsoft Security Essentials MsMpEng.exe – Antimalware service executable using high CPU Time I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64, but I think this might be problem in any version. I keep having issues with Microsoft Security Essentials MsMpEng.exe using high CPU Time and hogging the cpu.  Basically, using a large amount of resources, like […]
So I never took the time to look these up, but I just heard about them recently. I always wanted to know how to create a new folder in Windows Explorer without having to use menu’s, by just using a keyboard shortcut. In the right side of the Explorer window, […]
I was not able to access a newly joined Windows 7 computer on our domain from our Windows 2000 Server. I just received that error. “Cannot perform the requested operation†Sharing was setup ok, permissions and security set ok, firewall was turned off. I saw an Event ID 2017 on […]
I am testing Windows 7 Pro on my laptop and wanted to decide if I can get by with that instead of Ultimate. Well, my time is running out and I need a couple day to backup everything before I change it. So… I need to “rearm†the activation system. […]
This is a pain. For some reason, unkown even to Microsoft aparently, I reboot my system only to login to a temporary profile in Windows Vista or Windows 7. Â As of this writing, I am using the release candidate of Windows 7, but since I’ve seen this on Vista […]
I love my new Env Touch, since I can’t get an iPhone it’s just awesome, but there’s a couple little things I don’t like. Like the fact that the dial pad goes blank when entering my PIN in voice mail. I have the screen set to 30 seconds timeout, but […]
I found some info on Google searches to get Windows 7 to join a Samba domain controller. I have Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty which runs Samba 3.3.2, which I guess does not work. You need 3.3.4.  Windows 7 needs a registry change: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters] “DomainCompatibilityMode”=dword:00000001 “DNSNameResolutionRequired”=dword:00000000 The above need to be added to allow […]