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Sometimes, you don’t ever expect to ever see a particular error message ever again. It’s been over 5 years since the last time I saw this error, quite possibly on a Windows NT4 system in 2002. The problem was reported to me as the "FooBat" application does not start when the user launches [...] is a fault in software, or hardware for that matter, which breaks something. For example, if you make software which links my Microsoft Calendar to my Google Calendar, and your software duplicates all my calendar entries, it’s a bug. Not an undocumented feature. An undocumented feature, is a feature which is undocumented. Such [...] Windows 7 gets really annoyed when you a) redirect the Desktop folder b) then stop the Windows 7 client from accessing that Desktop folder. Windows Explorer will complain every time you start it. Excel 2007 just won’t open files. The thing to learn from this, if you are going to use Folder [...] It was an Ed Bott article which got me to thinking, “just how many anti-virus false positives have I dealt with over the years?”. Six. A false positive is when your anti-virus product flags a non-virus file as being virus-infected. Number of false positive virus updates which impacted my customers? 6 Number of [...] Well it could be according to HP: No, I don’t know why the HP Detection tool would think that … [...] Fast on the feels of the Acrobat Reader post I wrote, Flash Player decided to start annoying the users with Arghhhhhhhh! Adobe has a “new” method to disable auto updates. Long story short, create a mms.cfg file with the following contents: AutoUpdateDisable=1 and drop it into the %windir%\system32\macromed\flash directory Much longer Adobe update [...] That’s what I thought at least. Consider this snippet of code from the Delete computers from SMS VBscript: Set objResource = GetObject( "WinMgmts:\\" & strSMSServer & _ "\root\SMS\site_" & strSMSSiteCode & _ ":SMS_R_System.ResourceID=" & cint(intResourceID)) This statement would fail about 50% of the time. The error code was Err.Number: 6 Err.Description: [...] Which summed up my Windows 7 PC. The FAIL bit was that when I’d do a large USB file copy, without fail (no pun intended), I’d get a DRIVE IS NO LONGER RECOGNIZED error. Then all my USB ports would fail to work. To recover, meant rebooting my computer. The problem got REALLY [...] But not at these two machines at Melbourne Central Railway Station. Nor at the next station on the line, Parliament Station. Both broken. The old Metcard machine you can see on the left was working just fine. Machine 1 had the classic hang: Machine 2 looked like it couldn’t find the network: [...] … to the virtual machine. Check the values provided and try again.” error It sucks as an error message. Would it take too much programming effort to make it more meaningful Virtual PC team? What does it mean? It means you have a Virtual Hard Disk file larger than 127.5GB. Which Virtual PC does not support. In other words, we’ve captured a 160GB hard disk, and Virtual PC won’t let us use it. But we can fix it, it’s a two step process First we use DiskPart, and then we use VHD Resizer. (Click here to continue reading How to fix the “Cannot attach the virtual hard disk …”) |
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