Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.
DaleSolid State Drives, SSDs, are now becoming cheap enough that our corporate customers are ordering them with their new PCs. The first Windows operating system to support SSDs*, was Windows…
Application FooBar.exe was randomly locking our computers.
The customer reported that their computer was being randomly “Locked” while they were typing. I’m sure our initial thought was “What are they smoking there?”. But we had some other…
Active Directory User account being locked repeatedly
(I don’t know the answer to this yet, so this is just an dump of what I know.) Customer reports that they’re Active Directory User account is being locked out…
How to recover a “WiFi” password from a Windows PC.
Or, “I’ve forgotten my Wireless password and don’t know how to retrieve it from my Windows 7 PC.” I didn’t either, until today. The background was that a customer was…
Shell32 returns Missing Entry OCInstall
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…
"This advertised application will not be installed because it might be unsafe. Contact your administrator …"
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…
I missed the Windows XP release birthday
I’ve been working on Windows XP for a long time. I found an old blog post with the Windows XP release dates in it: 30/06/2000 - Whistler Technical Beta begins…
Virus removal tools
A short list of various virus removal tools I’ve used: Sophos – Virus Removal Tool Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool Windows Defender Offline
MaxPatchCacheSize and Windows 7
So I was building a Windows 7 virtual machine, so I could play “Gardens of Time” as GoT doesn’t work on my Windows 2008 R2 box …, and I went…
Group Policy and WMI filtering slowness.
Having spent time investigating slow network logons, I dislike using WMI for Group Policy filtering. It just adds a layer of slowness to logons. WMI filtering does has it’s place,…