A user at one of my clients ran into this today. He couldn’t open any images that were attached to Outlook. (Outlook 2003) Â I first just cleared out any temp files in c:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Temp folder and reset it to NOT be read only. Also reset all perms in that folder and […]
I don’t know how users have been managing to get into a bind with this, but twice in the last couple weeks I’ve been called by people with no internet access, yet they still have server file shares working. Â Everything seems fine in their adapter settings for IP and browser […]
I setup a new computer for a client, and Windows 7 would not map the drives in the logon script for the domain account. Ran into this issue, again. Our domain uses a VBScript as our login script, and it appears to run. It runs correctly if started manually, just […]
EDIT 5/19/2012 As per this item in SpiderOak Realease Notes (4.5.9939): Looks like they do include a LAN sync feature now!! Â I left my original post below intact, but wanted to point out this update right away. I am going to download for my Mac, Ubuntu 12.04 system, and my […]
Somehow my wife got MyWebSearch loaded on my Windows 7 computer, which cleaned off fine, except for Firefox web searching! Every time I used the Awesome Bar to search, MyWebSearch showed the results. Easy fix… Â go to “about:config” in Firefox by typing it in the URL bar. Â In the Filter […]
I was asked about the resources used on the Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 using either Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, or JoliCloud operating systems. Â So… here’s what I found… I didn’t do anything fancy, just boot each up and look at their system/task managers. Â The Linux systems have Chromium/Google Chrome […]
Quick note about using chntpw command to reset Windows passwords. Mostly, I just couldn’t remember what the command line program was or the switches. Boot to System Rescue CD. mount the Windows drive RW (mine was RO) cd to the config dir: cd /mnt/sda1/Windows/System32/config Backup your sam,security,system,software (just copy them […]
I tested Windows 7, Jolicloud, Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick, and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid on my new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) Netbook. Â First let me say, Window 7 on this netbook is barely usable. If you wait for the OS to finish booting, which takes at least 5 minutes before all […]
MsMpEng.exe – Antimalware service executable I generally do not have any issues with Microsoft Security Essentials. It just works, and does its job quite well. Â From time to time I notice some weird issues on my client computers, where MsMpEng.exe (Antimalware service executable) is using way too many and high […]
Microsoft Security Essentials MsMpEng.exe – Antimalware service executable using high CPU Time I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64, but I think this might be problem in any version. I keep having issues with Microsoft Security Essentials MsMpEng.exe using high CPU Time and hogging the cpu.  Basically, using a large amount of resources, like […]
So I never took the time to look these up, but I just heard about them recently. I always wanted to know how to create a new folder in Windows Explorer without having to use menu’s, by just using a keyboard shortcut. In the right side of the Explorer window, […]
I was not able to access a newly joined Windows 7 computer on our domain from our Windows 2000 Server. I just received that error. “Cannot perform the requested operation†Sharing was setup ok, permissions and security set ok, firewall was turned off. I saw an Event ID 2017 on […]
Just a few quick notes on the ZFS CIFS sharing. Check the /etc/pam.conf has the smb line: other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn If not, add that to the end of the file. If you, check /var/smb/smbpasswd you should also see a line for your account with a hashed password listed. […]
I am testing Windows 7 Pro on my laptop and wanted to decide if I can get by with that instead of Ultimate. Well, my time is running out and I need a couple day to backup everything before I change it. So… I need to “rearm†the activation system. […]
This is a pain. For some reason, unkown even to Microsoft aparently, I reboot my system only to login to a temporary profile in Windows Vista or Windows 7. Â As of this writing, I am using the release candidate of Windows 7, but since I’ve seen this on Vista […]
I love my new Env Touch, since I can’t get an iPhone it’s just awesome, but there’s a couple little things I don’t like. Like the fact that the dial pad goes blank when entering my PIN in voice mail. I have the screen set to 30 seconds timeout, but […]
I found some info on Google searches to get Windows 7 to join a Samba domain controller. I have Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty which runs Samba 3.3.2, which I guess does not work. You need 3.3.4.  Windows 7 needs a registry change: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters] “DomainCompatibilityMode”=dword:00000001 “DNSNameResolutionRequired”=dword:00000000 The above need to be added to allow […]