And it turned out to be a fault with Windows Installer 4.5. The installation process of a MSI package that contains multiple packages stops responding (hangs) in Windows XP, Windows…
And it’s a bug/feature which is at least 10 years old, and Thomson Reuters have not fixed that issue in those 10 years. It wouldn’t be that difficult to fix…
not Vista or Windows 7. The customer reported that our version of Internet Explorer 8 would crash when we visited their website. We support IE8 on Windows XP. IE8 was…
… with an 0xc0000242 error. No, I don’t know what the underlying problem is. Often, if I just reboot, Windows/TrueCrypt allows the resume from Hibernation to work. My guess is…
This is a guest post by Allan, a bloke I work with. Allan asked my opinion of what was wrong, and I suggested a DNS server issue. (Our DNS servers…
Which is strange as I was applying Internet Explorer 8 security patch MS11-081, on Windows XP. Strange because the OCInstall function was first introduced with Windows 2000 SP3/SP4. Strange also…
Since I am my administrator … I had to look into why AweSync was not installing on my freshly reimaged work Windows 7 PC. I’d double click on the installer…
Our users were complaining of slow startup and logon performance with our Windows 7 fleet. We got Microsoft in. One of the things they recommended was deploying two hotfixes: An…
The customer reported that they were unable to access our company intranet site. They were getting an "400 Bad Request" error from Internet Explorer. So what did I do? I…
On a newly imaged Windows XP client, I decided to activate “Automatic Updates” via a newly installed WSUS 3.0SP2 server. But I was seeing this error on my Windows XP…
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