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Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe) is a new Windows Vista command-line tool that you can use offline to install, remove, or update Windows packages. You can add a package, provided as a .cab file, to an offline Windows image. Package Manager can also enable or disable a Windows feature, either offline or on a running Windows installation. …
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Introduction A computer’s affiliation can change in many ways: From workgroup to domain. From domain to workgroup. From one domain to another domain. Common to these scenarios is that the user or users using the computer loose access to their locally stored user profiles. When a computer joins a domain it usually means the persons …
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Windows Vista comes with a huge collection of printer drivers in the box. If you need to install one or more of these drivers on a print server go to the Sharing tab of you printer and hit the Additional Drivers: Check the driver you want to install and hit OK. Windows will ask you …
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For some reason I frequently encounter these DCOM errors on servers running SharePoint Services: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM Date: 25.05.2008 15:50:23 Event ID: 10016 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: NETWORK SERVICE Computer: server.domain.com Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID …
For some reason Microsoft has decided to not let us install any of the Windows Live programs; Messenger, Gallery etc. on Windows Servers or x64 editions of Windows XP. If you try to run the installer (WLInstaller.exe) on any of these OSs you see this error: ————————— Windows Live Installer ————————— Sorry, Windows Live programs …
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The hibernation feature in Windows, first introduces in Windows 2000, enables a computer to save its state in a hibernation file on disk. State in this context means the contents of the computer’s memory at the time of hibernation. The hibernation file, hiberfil.sys located on the boot volume, is the same size as the installed …
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I’m a big fan of x64, and that’s why I’m running Windows Vista x64 on all my computers (which support it). The support for x64 from hardware vendors and ISVs is very good, but unfortunately there are some things that are not ready yet. One of those things are IFilters. IFilters are used by the …
It does not support Unicode!!!
Continuing my posts about the strange world of PKI and certificates. Today I browsed over to my CA using my Windows Vista Ultimate machine. Only to receive this message: ERROR: The certificate enrollment page you are attempting to access cannot be used with this version of Windows. To enable Web certificate enrollment for clients running …
For a long time, we have been enjoying a Windows XP Power Tool called “Command prompt here” on our directories’ and drives’ context menus. I recently discovered that Windows Vista has this functionality build in. If you right-click your directory or drive while you press the SHIFT key, you get a few more choices. One …
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