Windows Operating System install testing
DaleBefore we ship a customised Microsoft Windows installation to our customers, we test. And test. And test some more. The picture, though a little old, shows a failed build test. …
HP Universal Print Driver – shame it doesn’t work with Novell Netware.
Being cheap bastards conscious of the support costs of maintaining device-specific printer drivers, HP has come up with the HP Universal Print Driver (UPD). Works great on Microsoft Windows based…
Not enough memory to complete this operation (adding a printer with Vista)
Trying to install my Lexmark X215 multi-function printer results in this error message under Vista: I don't know the actual cause, as I have 3GB of memory installed, but this…
Date Mail Merge Bug fixed in Office 2007
Versions of Microsoft Word before Word 2007 had the following annoying bug: Consider an Excel spreadsheet with the following data. Name Date of Birth Ed Apple 03/12/1978 Fred Pear 12/04/1956…
“ntuser.pol.tmp”
... Or another reason roaming profiles can be problematic ... In the case pictured right, customer was logging onto a Windows XP computer and a Windows NT4 computer. It took…
“Windows Vista SP1 availability for technical customers” – with a bug or two FREE!
From the Vista Team Blog ... In my blog post on the subject, I noted that we were going to make SP1 available to customers in stages to make sure…
On bad (computer generated) advice.
Lemmings, a popular PC game released in 1991. It involved you (the player) guiding lemmings to safely over gorges, broken bridges & cliffs (see screen shot right). Lemmings were essentially…
Advertising Windows Errors
I tolerate Microsoft Windows. I would probably like it if I wasn't involved in supporting it. On occasion, systems running Windows do something REALLY stupid. (see left). Yes, that's right.…
MS06-049 for Windows 2000 SP4 causes data lost.
From Slashbot: "It looks like there is a problem with the recently released MS06-049 / KB920958 patch. If you have compression activated on any folder, then the compressed data is…