ESET NOD32 making many systems hang
I’ve spent most of the day trying identify a systematic way to work around the campus antivirus solution, which is causing widespread system hangs. Our vendor...
Tag: Troubleshooting
List folder contents – XP vs. Vista
Yesterday, a client called me complaining that, after installing Vista SP2, she couldn’t access a folder on a file share. She could access that same folder fr...
Changing Boot drive with BCDBoot
Scott Hanselman is a consistently good source of useful info and commentary. Recently, he needed to change which drive his computer used as its System drive, wh...
Tuesday – May 5
Spurred by some recent traffic on the Windows-HiEd list, I have looked into the Windows Update process on some of our Server 2008 Core systems. The thread was s...
Wednesday – April 22
I’ve been working on revising and refactoring a Perl application that I wrote about four years ago to handle our domain account provisioning. Originally, it w...
Recalcitrant Vista SP1 install
I have spent a number of hours troubleshooting the installation of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on a particular Dell Optiplex 755, but I finally succeeded. Symp...
TinyMCE fixed!
I finally got around to using a javascript debugger to find out why the visual editor refused to work for me. I got the following error when there was an attemp...
Troubleshooting Windows Activation
Troubleshooting Vista volume activation via KMS
Reset Offline Files cache
For my reference, mostly… In Windows XP: In Explore’s Tools → Folder Options → Offline Files, then press CTRL+SHIFT and click the “Delete ...