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List folder contents – XP vs. Vista

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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Troubleshooting Wifi logon

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

I’ve been working with  client to try to identify why we sometime log onto the UVM wifi network successfully before workstation logon, but frequently thi...

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Wednesday – April 29

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Some Microsoft updates released yesterday, including Office 2007 SP2. TSGateway server Web and Terminal services didn’t restart gracefully. Investigating, I f...

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Friday – April 17

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Last night, I stumbled across this video: Office Casual: How to work with the ribbon  The Inside Office Online blog post for the video includes links to th...

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Pandora Windows Gadget

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

If you enjoy Pandora’s online music service, and you’re using Vista or Windows 7, you might enjoy the Pandora Gadget. I find it convenient because I don’t...

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Elevated ShellRunAs

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Geoff / 0 Comment

Back in the day, I was a good Windows admin and did my administration using the Windows Server admin tools from my workstation, logged in with a non-admin user,...

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Recalcitrant Vista SP1 install

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Geoff / 0 Comment

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...

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Troubleshooting Windows Activation

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Geoff / 9 Comments

Troubleshooting Vista volume activation via KMS

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Disabling IPv6 in Vista

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Geoff / 0 Comment

As part of troubleshooting the Cisco VPN with my Vista system, I’ve been asked to “turn off” IPv6, just in case. I decided to take the compreh...

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Reset Offline Files cache

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Geoff / 3 Comments

For my reference, mostly… In Windows XP: In Explore’s Tools → Folder Options → Offline Files, then press CTRL+SHIFT and click the “Delete ...

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