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I recently had a client pc brought to me that would not run Windows Updates. I initially though it was Malware or Spyware or Virus related so I was a bit puzzled after running my usual assortment of tools (Malwarebytes , Super Antispyware and others…) as to why Windows update would still not run. It […]
This is a quick update. I recently had to uninstall VMware Server 2 from a Centos Linux server. After a little research I found that the quickest way to uninstall (if it was installed using the RPM installer) was to run the following command rpm -e VMware-server-2.0.0-xxxxx You may need to substitute your current version […]
I had the need today to extend a Windows 2008 Server disk partition to add the rest of the unused hard drive space to the C: drive. A collegue of mine sent this to me but I though it would help to repost it. These steps will extend a Windows 2008 disk partition. First, go […]
I recently had a client bring a Windows XP Pro laptop to me that would not boot. Upon start up it would immediaty display the following error. “NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart” My problem seemed to be a missing or damaged boot.ini file. To fix the problem: Boot off of the […]
I recently had a Windows 2003 Server that for some reason would not return even a single page through IIS. I was getting the dreaded “Service Not Available” error. Upon investigation I noticed several events in the Windows Event log with ID 1002 and 1009. After some googling a few dozen searches on the subject […]
I recently had a client come to me with an old server that is no longer in service that he wanted to clean up. As there was some data on the server that still needed to exist after the cleanup I could not simply rebuild the server from scratch. However this server was a Windows […]
I had a client come to me with a Windows Vista 64 bit laptop that displayed an error on startup. The error was related to a file lxcgtime.dll. It appears that it is a file related to a Lexmark printer the user had installed but no longer uses. I read about the possibility of copying […]
In a previous post (see it here ) I wrote about a problem I was having with my Dell Studio 1737 laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit edition. I was experiencing an intermitent problem where the CPU would hover at close to 50% even when the laptop was idle. After reseting my laptop […]
I came across an interesting Linux distribution I though I might try out called eBox. From their website eBox Platform can act as a Gateway, an Infrastructure Manager, a Unified Threat Manager, an Office Server, a Unified Communication Server or a combination of them. One single, easy-to-use platform to manage all your network services. I […]
This is a quick how to article on using some basic command line tools to administer VMware server 2 virtual machines running on a Linux system. In my case I am running Vmware Server on Centos 5.4 but I’m sure this will be very similar if not exactly the same on other versions of Linux. […]