For those in any type of IT related profession you have certainly come across the negative vibe that has attached itself to Windows Vista. Even though it had its share of driver problems and bugs when it first came out I believe it has grown into a fairly decent operating system. I run Windows Vista […]
Here is another article under my “ItFixed” it for Me series.I had a user with a laptop come to me this morning complaining that her laptop would not start with the following error Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Winnt_rootSystem32Ntoskrnl.exe Please re-install a copy of the above file. […]
I have come across another free AntiSpyWare program that I thought I would post a quick review about. It is called Super Anti Spyware (I tested version 4.24.1004. The program is available from http://www.superantispyware.com. There is a free version and a Professional version. The main difference is you do not get real time protection or […]
Here is one shell script I used recently. Now I am not the most fluent in scripting languages so this is probably not the only way to do this but it may help someone else who is trying to do something similar in a shell script. This was used for gzip’ing many .dmp files that […]
Here is another good utility for troubleshooting network connections. It can also come in handy while fighting some spam and spyware infection. TCPView for Windows v2.53 is a SysInternals tool now owned by Microsoft.You can download the file from http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/TcpView.zip. You can also run it directly from the website using this link http://live.sysinternals.com/Tcpview.exe. This program […]
This may come in handy for some one using Dynamsoft Source Anywhere.I have a virtual machine running on vmware that hosts our company’s source code. There is a program called Source Anywhere that allows our offshore developers to connect over a VPN and access the source code. Over the past few days we have been […]
Number 1 on “My Top 10 Most Useful Free Programs” is Open Office available from http://www.openoffice.org I know most people use some version of Microsoft Office to open and create word and xls docs but there is another free alternative. Open Office is “The free and open productivity suite”. It has most of the same […]
Up to today I have been a big fan of Clark Connect Linux but today I was contacted by our ISP that one of our boxes was compromised and was running a fishing site that was attempting to collect paypal passwords. The server did not have an easy password so it could not have been […]
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I have to start by saying that I did not create these instructions initially. They came from Windows Connected. However I did add some of my own comments about issues that I found during the process. In the end I ended up with a bootable USB key that boots into WINPE 2.0. The initial interface […]
