What happens when you uninstall Internet Explorer 8?
DaleIt makes itself hard to reinstall itself. The install program looks at registry and decides, “heck, I’m already installed.” At least that’s happened when I had to reinstall it via…
So you’re missing the MSI source package
It is one of the great annoyances with Roaming Profiles and MSI-based installs, that if you reformat your PC, you can lose the link to your MSI package. Here’s today’s…
PizzaHut = Fail
I prefer Pizza Hut pizzas, but their online ordering system sends me to their main competitor.
Office 2007 & 2010 reporting "File in use" on Novell Netware file shares.
We had a user complain that on Windows 7 and Office 2007, when they try to open a Office document on a Novell Netware fileshare, they were getting a "File…
Microsoft Photo Editor–Error Reading File
We had a user report this error when he was trying to edit a photo taken with his Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS Camera. After much investigation, I've told the…
HP sucks again–can’t even test a laptop properly
Connect a USB keyboard or mouse to a HP Elite 8440p, then try and boot the laptop up. It’ll hang at the Windows Logo screen. HELLO HP?!? Where has your…
NTLMSSP was returning the error “STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED”
NTLMSSP is the security provider for NTLM, in case you were wondering. I learnt about it as I was trying to write a log file to a DFS share in…
Our DNS server lies to me again!
By accident, I found out that my DNS server was lying to me again. Last time I caught it out was when it was serving up the wrong IP addresses…
There will be questions
from our non-technical users, such as "What are bytes, and where do I get 30 of them?"
So does your HP 8000 Elite PC not burn DVDs?
In the “things I saw ten years ago and never thought I’d see again” category, we recently had the case of the HP 8000 Elite PC which refused to burn…