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Upgrade Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 XXX
Date December 10, 2010 Author By kadmin Category General
By modifying this registry key, you’ll be able to upgrade Windows 7 Home Premium to any more featured version of Windows 7. Below is an example of going to Enterprise from Home Premium. Under ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion modify the following keys: EditionID from “HomePremium” to “Enterprise”. ProductName from “Windows 7 HomePremium” to “Enterprise”.
Read MoreDate September 29, 2010 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP
In a non-Active Directory environment, you can edit registry settings to configure Automatic Updates. Note You must manually create these registry keys. You can use either of the following methods to set these registry keys: Manually edit the registry by using Registry Editor (regedit.exe). Centrally deploy these registry keys by using the Windows NT 4.0-style […]
Read MoreDate September 19, 2010 Author By kadmin Category General
Problem: You turn on your computer and get this error: Time of day clock stopped You can’t even get into the BIOS to set the time. It just sits at this message forever. My machine is an XPS M1330 but others have reported the same problem with other models. Solution: This article was helpful. Remove […]
Read MoreDate September 13, 2010 Author By kadmin Category Anti-Virus
Problem: You can’t open any security-related websites. You can’t run windows updates. You can’t update Malwarebytes. Cause: Your DNS settings have been hijacked by a malware infection. Solution: Edit this registry entry to remove the bad DNS settings. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParameters delete the entries on the DHCPNameServer key You can also check the settings on an individual […]
Read MoreDate August 26, 2010 Author By kadmin Category General
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Read MoreDate August 17, 2010 Author By kadmin Category Windows XP
Problem: Your registry is corrupt and Windows will not boot. Solution 1: Last Known Good Solution 2: If you had System Recovery turned on, you can restore the corrupted hive from the System Volume Information Folder as directed here. Solution 3: Open the registry hive on another computer and repair it. With REGEDT32 one can […]
Read MoreDate August 16, 2010 Author By kadmin Category Blackberry
Blackberry Server – The number of users selected exceeds the number of available licenses. You just deleted a user and want to add another user. The system does not free up the license for the user your removed and you can’t add the new user. Do this to fix it: If you have deleted a […]
Read MoreDate August 4, 2010 Author By kadmin Category General
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Read MoreDate July 8, 2010 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7, Windows Vista
If there is a directory, whether a built-in directory (such as Music, Documents, Desktop, etc.) or a directory you create, that has become corrupted and undeletable, you’ll need to take ownership and change the ACLs on that directory. Use these 2 shell commands. You’ll want to start the command prompt in administrator mode. 1.takeown /f directory_name /r […]
Read MoreDate July 2, 2010 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7
All users desktop: C:UsersPublicPublic Desktop All users start menu: C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart Menu
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