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Date July 9, 2013 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Crash dump files A crash dump is essentially a snapshot of what was held in memory at the point in time when Windows crashed, so it contains a lot of useful information that can be used to identify what caused the crash. So the first thing you need is to obtain the crash dump file […]
Read MoreDate June 13, 2013 Author By kadmin Category Microsoft Outlook, Windows 7
I found myself in a situation where i wanted to increase the priority of the indexing process performed by the Windows Search service in Windows 7…. to cut a long story short I decided to rebuild the index. It did most of the documents fairly quickly, but Outlook indexing was taking forever. I pretty much […]
Read MoreDate May 8, 2013 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7
Hit the Start key Type “Programs and Features” and hit Enter Click “View Installed Updates” Scroll down to the “Microsoft Windows” section Click “Windows Internet Explorer 10” Click Uninstall Confirm that you want to uninstall IE10 Reboot when prompted
Read MoreDate April 8, 2013 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7
Problem: You click Start and type something in the search box. The results are blank and the Start menu stalls for 30 seconds…then the results appear. You launch Internet Explorer (8 or 9 in this particular case). The window opens within a second (thanks to my new SSD). It starts loading the home page. The […]
Read MoreDate March 13, 2013 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7
You can set the default login image by simply copying your image to this folder and renaming it. More information can be found here.
Read MoreDate October 24, 2012 Author By poster Category Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Scenario: When you send a print job to a local printer ( connected via usb), it sits in print queue and wont print. Solution: Clear the print spool – the right way to do it Click “start” and go to “Run” Type “services.msc” at the prompt Scroll down the alphabetical list in the right window […]
Read MoreDate October 19, 2012 Author By kadmin Category General, Support Articles, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Problem: Your Dell computer comes with junk software called Dell Datasafe Local Backup. It serves not purpose unless to pay to upgrade it. You go into Control Panel to remove it and it fails to uninstall. It starts up every time you boot your computer. You can’t get rid of it. Solution: You can go […]
Read MoreDate October 12, 2012 Author By poster Category Windows 7
Problem: All of the printers on my Windows 7 machine need to be deleted and reinstalled. I must right-click each printer and delete it individually. There are 15 printers and it takes forever. With prior versions of Windows I could simply highlight them all, right-click, and delete them all at once. Solution: Click Start, type MMC in […]
Read MoreDate September 10, 2012 Author By poster Category Windows 7
Problem: You need to enable remote desktop on a Windows 7 machine. You are not in the same building as the machine. Solution: Assuming you have admin rights on the machine… download Service Manager by Martin Fuchs to remotely turn on the remote registry service Start regedit on your machine. Click File, join network registry, […]
Read MoreDate July 30, 2012 Author By kadmin Category Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Scenario: You have a printer attached to a Windows XP machine. It is shared. You browse to \computernameprintername from your Windows 7 machine to connect the printer Windows 7 complains that it can’t find the driver and won’t accept any driver you give it (or it is an old printer with no downloadable win7 driver). […]
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