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Make Windows Shut Down Services Quicker
Here’s a simple little tip to help shut down Windows quicker. Recently I was help speed up a Vista laptop and after all was repaired and cleaned up it still took ages to shut down. This was basically...
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Windows Update error 80072EDF or 80070057
While trying to update a new clients server I received the following error code 80072EDF This basically means that the server cannot contact the update server. First I opened a command prompt...
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Register dll in Windows 7 (64bit)
Afternoon all, I’ve been installing a 3rd party product which requires a dll registered in windows. Normally I’d move the file to c:\windows\system32 and then run regsvr32 ‘filename’ and all would be...
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Stop a running process from command prompt
A user kindly clicked on one of those nice fake Anti Virus Pro links today, and surprise surprise he then couldn’t run any programs, Outlook, Task manager, msconfig etc. Excellent! So I had to look to...
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How to open Registry editor
To open the Registry editor ( Be careful this is a very powerful tool, not for the faint hearted ) Click the Start Menu and in the ‘Search programs and files’ box type regedit and hit Enter or click...
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How to open a Command Prompt
To open the Command Prompt ( Be careful this is a very powerful tool, not for the faint hearted ) Click the Start Menu and in the ‘Search programs and files’ box type cmd and hit Enter. or click the...
View ArticleTask Scheduler Result Codes
A useful little list of the Task Scheduler result codes so you can translate them: 0 or 0x0: The operation completed successfully. 1 or 0x1: Incorrect function called or unknown function called. 2 or...
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User_Feed_Synchronization Task Corrupted
So today I was doing a test system restore for which I’ve created a few scheduled tasks for. As soon as I opened the Task Scheduler I receive this nice error and find that they haven’t been running as...
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Hidden folder – Greyed out attribute
Simple little one this for some reason a clients main Data folder was Hidden, no idea why but some people were obviously complaining that they couldn’t see the folder. Looking at the folder properties...
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Removing corrupt Volume Shadow Copies VSS
Howdy all, here’s a nice little one for you and a nice little space gainer. One of my clients servers was running low on space so I checked the Shadow Copies. While are good and do have their uses, if...
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Find out which Process or PID is using a particular port
Recently a customer’s phones had stopped receiving email while their email clients on the pc’s were still working fine. Time to investigate what’s going on! First some simple troubleshooting, can I...
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