Yesterday we got an alert from a client’s server that it was a running low on disk space. This particular server has a data partition that is about 44GB but in the past they have never got anywhere near this much data I logged onto the server and yes indeed they were pretty low on
Category: Windows
Action Pack Changes
Not that long ago Microsoft made changes to the way we got desktop operating system in the action pack. They moved to “non-oem” media and there was an awful lot of complaints at the time Thankfully they have taken all the feedback on board and made some changes. Check out the official line here. We’ll
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Running at higher DPI
A couple of days ago i spotted a blog post by Daniel Moth called 10 Tips on How to Setup Your Laptop before a Demo 10 pretty solid tips but what caught my eye was the second one. “Run at (120) High DPI.Task Subject Start Date Reminder Time Due Date In Folder Categories Expo Bespoke None None None Tasks To-Do I cannot stress this enough.
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Vista Service Pack 1 – installed
I don’t normally post about this sort of news as i haven’t exactly got the scoop on it and there is nothing worse than reading the same thing over and over again when your going through your feeds! But thought i’d post on this from a personal point view So as i’ve mentioned above, i’m
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Weird Printing Problem – Port Monitors
Just thought i’d quickly share this. One of our clients has a couple of photocopiers they installed before we came on board. We made sure that we had the information to connect to them when setting up new PC’s so we new what driver to use, which options to select, tray types, etc Last week
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KB929729 Windows Update Failure on Vista
I meant to blog about this at the time but forgot until i was just reminded about it I was over at my parents house and my dad had been trying to run Windows Update. He had one update that just wouldn’t install – KB929729 Security Update for .NET 1.1 I found a very helpful post
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Resetting Vista Offline Files
A little while back i posted about resetting the offline file cache in XP. I had a comment left by Rick asking how to do this in Vista After a little digging the initial answer is…..you can’t Well not quite (just not as easily)…things like csccmd.exe don’t apply anymore as the offline files functionality has
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Missing Pictures
*-* Updated *-* When i view the Pictures folder in Explorer the files aren’t there! If i view them in the attach files dialog they are there but it still wont let me attach them. When i right click while trying to attach files files it wont open in Photo Gallery either. However good old paint came to my
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Media Player keeps playing
Susanne posted a while back about a problem with Windows Media Player on Vista where the music continues to play even after you have closed the program I’d noticed the same thing on my computer at home so just got into the habit of stopping whatever i was listening to before i closed I was
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Reset Offline File Cache
About a year ago we did a fileserver migration as the hardware is about to die on the existing server Everything went well and we got the data across with shares and permissions as they were previously However, we were told after the event that several users used the offline files feature in XP for