Dell Dimension 8400 System Restore April 21, 2009
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Make sure you back up first because it is a destructive restore
””To use PC Restore:
1 Turn on the computer. During the boot process, a blue bar with www.dell.com appears at the top of the screen.
2 Immediately upon seeing the blue bar, press CTRL-F11. If you do not press in time, let the computer finish restarting, and then restart the computer again.”’
Disable ‘Set Network Location’ in Vista April 17, 2009
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Sometimes the dialog that asks ‘Home, Work, Public’ is an unnecessary feature if you only use your laptop is secure areas. Create the following key without any value to disable this feature
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\NewNetworkWindowOff
PST File greater than 2G March 24, 2009
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B33B1DFF-6F50-411D-BBDF-82019DDA602E&displaylang=en
XP Spooler won’t start March 7, 2009
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1) Put your XP CD in the CD Drive.
2) Start > Run (Where D: is your CD drive letter)
EXPAND /r “D:i386SPOOLSV.EX_ C:WindowsSystem32
3) Start > Run
SPOOLSV.EXE /install
Get rid of annoying 3-5 black screen during Vista boot February 23, 2009
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This normally occcurs when Vista searches for external monitors on startup of Vista. If you are not using an external monitor…turn TMM off.
Start->control panel (Classic)->administrative tools->task scheduler.
Expand “Task Scheduler Library”… “Microsoft”… “Windows”… “MobilePC”
Click “TMM”, and on the right-hand side, click “Disable”
Simply Accounting won’t load company over network February 20, 2009
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If you find you can load a company file locally, but not over a network share, your DNS server / router may be the problem.
You can confirm this by determining the ip address of the computer with the file (eg: \CATHY ) and finding out it’s ip address using ipconfig on that machine.
Then try and access the machine using the ip address (eg: \192.168.1.101 ) If it works, complain to your IT department, or in my case Telus.
WD External Drive shows as unformatted February 8, 2009
Posted by Cowboy in Uncategorized.Tags: passport, unformatted, WD, Western Digital
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If the external HD was working fine but now the drive letter showed up in “my computer”, and Windoze wants you to format it (Shows up in device manager as healthy/active). Probably the Boot Sector or Partition information has been damaged.
Download TestDisk and repair the Boot Sector:
How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting January 18, 2009
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545
Brief version from above link
copy c:windowssystem32configsystem c:windowstmpsystem.bak
copy c:windowssystem32configsoftware c:windowstmpsoftware.bak
copy c:windowssystem32configsam c:windowstmpsam.bak
copy c:windowssystem32configsecurity c:windowstmpsecurity.bak
copy c:windowssystem32configdefault c:windowstmpdefault.bak
delete c:windowssystem32configsystem
delete c:windowssystem32configsoftware
delete c:windowssystem32configsam
delete c:windowssystem32configsecurity
delete c:windowssystem32configdefault
copy c:windowsrepairsystem c:windowssystem32configsystem
copy c:windowsrepairsoftware c:windowssystem32configsoftware
copy c:windowsrepairsam c:windowssystem32configsam
copy c:windowsrepairsecurity c:windowssystem32configsecurity
copy c:windowsrepairdefault c:windowssystem32configdefault
- The following path is an example of a folder path to the Snapshot folder:
C:System Volume Information_restore{D86480E3-73EF-47BC-A0EB-A81BE6EE3ED8}RP1Snapshot
- From the Snapshot folder, copy the following files to the C:WindowsTmp folder:
- _REGISTRY_USER_.DEFAULT
- _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SECURITY
- _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
- _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SYSTEM
- _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SAM
- Rename the files in the C:WindowsTmp folder as follows:
- Rename _REGISTRY_USER_.DEFAULT to DEFAULT
- Rename _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SECURITY to SECURITY
- Rename _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE to SOFTWARE
- Rename _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SYSTEM to SYSTEM
- Rename _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SAM to SAMdel c:windowssystem32configsam
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del c:windowssystem32configsecuritydel c:windowssystem32configsoftwaredel c:windowssystem32configdefault
del c:windowssystem32configsystem
copy c:windowstmpsoftware c:windowssystem32configsoftware
copy c:windowstmpsystem c:windowssystem32configsystem
copy c:windowstmpsam c:windowssystem32configsam
copy c:windowstmpsecurity c:windowssystem32configsecurity
copy c:windowstmpdefault c:windowssystem32configdefault
Disable IPv6 in Vista / Windows 7 January 14, 2009
Posted by Cowboy in Uncategorized.Tags: ipv6, vista, win7, windows 7
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Add the following registry value (DWORD type) set to 0xFFFFFFFF:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents
This method disables IPv6 on all your LAN interfaces, connections, and tunnel interfaces but does not disable the IPv6 loopback interface. You must restart the computer for this registry value to take effect.
