Group Policy Logging on Vista/Windows 7,8,10
DaleAt the end of “Our roaming profiles aren’t being saved …”, I wrote that For Windows Vista and later, the log information is stored in the Event Log. Under Applications…
IE8 on Windows XP does not support SNI
, or "you desktop IT people have broken something". Just before Windows XP gets to take a well earned retirement on "the farm", it popped it's ugly head up this…
Performance: Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.
With my last post, I mentioned that there are 3 things you should do with SSD drives on Windows XP. I left 4 other things out, because I honestly didn’t…
Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.
Solid 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…
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…
Why Internet Explorer 8 crashes on Windows XP and …
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…
The joys of DLL hooks and eTrust Antivirus.
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…
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…
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…
WSUS DownloadFileInteral failed when trying to get wuredir.cab
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…