Windows XP Windows 7 Tips and Tricks
Idea – Reduce Noise, Save on Electricity My electric company installed an electricity consumption gadget, and ability to monitor usage online. A few month into the experiment I realized, that I can easily reduce electric usage, if I turned off my server. It is been over a year since I […]
This article applies to a scenario, when you already can establish RDP to a machine on your internal network from a remote network. Now you’ve decided to tighten security screws and close all external access to and from that machine except for RDP on the router level. Inbound connections to […]
There are two ways to reset forgotten Administrator password. Method one – Reset During Repair Reinstall: Use Win XP installation disk Run Recovery (not Recovery Console) Press Shift+F10 during GIU portion of repair / install Run LUSRMGR.MSC to reset any user password to whatever you want During my tests, this […]
After several days of heavy exhausting battles and sleepless nights, after testing dozens of options, after browsing many proposed Internet solutions, I finally was able to move an old instance of Windows XP on a new machine with new RAID drivers. That happened at 13:23 on December 12, 2010. I […]
This fix was tested with Windows XP Pro SP3 with Office 2003 SP3 and McAfee AntiVirus Plus. Finally. Finally I found a solution for this really scary-looking error message that was bugging me since 12/24. Marry Christmas! Description of a Problem Every time you restart you PC you see a […]
Annoying! How Annoying! This very simple, very typical error message, but it is so hard to find a quick solution. Symptoms: You are starting a Cisco VPN Client and immediately you are getting this error message: Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem. Please make sure that you […]
Summary First of all – it is not a virus! It is not a bug either. It is a feature, that doesn’t allow legacy applications to write files inside Program Files directory. This feature allows legacy applications think that they are writing to a system folders. Symptoms You can see […]
Several years I had this problem in one particular instance of Windows XP Professional – an extremely slow shutdown upon clicking on Shutdown button. For several minutes system would completely freeze, and then Shutdown/Restart dialog box would finally come up. What did I know about the problem. It was extremely […]
Problem You need to search and replace large registry databases with a set of new values. You have a third-party utility to do the job, but this utility can only update values writable by administrator. Thousands of registry keys are owned by NT Service\TrustedInstaller and protected even for Administrators. What […]
XPS12 is back online. I experienced a mini-crisis of my own creation. My 3-year old Dell XPS 12 laptop with latest Win 10 Pro build started to misbehave here and there, and I used MSCONFIG and set computer to Diagnostic startup – the option in the middle. That locked laptop […]
Problem: You have an old discarded instances of failed Windows 7 installs. You can rename the directories, but they still clutter your hard drive, and they are very hard to get rid of. I simply can’t take this painful and slow process of deleting huge system directories under Windows 7. […]
© 2017 DomainWebCenter.com. All Rights Reserved. | Disclaimer | Contact the Editor