Vista Internet Connection Sharing Breaks the Network
I can into a problem today that was actually reported to me last spring by my friend Carl. The problem is, using Windows Vista, with Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) enabled, after running for a...
View ArticleWindows Vista: Cannot connect to System Event Notification Service
This is a problem I’ve been having for several months: Sometimes, upon booting my 64-bit Vista desktop machine and logging in, I get one of those taskbar balloons that tells me that “Windows could not...
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STOP 0x0000007E error during 64-bit Windows Vista install
Here are the symptoms: You have 4 GB of RAM (or rather, more than 3 GB). You are trying to install the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. After the first reboot, when your computer boots off of the hard...
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Migrating Vista’s Windows Photo Gallery database
I’ve taken a liking to the Windows Photo Gallery application that comes with Windows Vista. It’s nice for organizing photos and videos, and the killer feature for me is the hierarchical tagging, a...
View ArticleDisable remote UAC in Windows Vista and Windows 7
In earlier versions of Windows, if you had files or folders with NTFS permissions assigned to the “Administrators” group (i.e., “Administrators” are allowed to edit the files but other users are not),...
View ArticleThe User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be...
…How’s that for good grammar? Anyway, this error popped up for me in Windows 7 the other day. After the computer boots up, you click on your user icon, type in your password, and BAM! “The User...
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Bye-bye, Windows 2000!
Today, support for Windows 2000 from Microsoft ends. Windows 2000 was released over ten years ago, on February 17, 2000. Although it may have had a shaky start as far as application compatibility...
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Move a Windows install from one machine to another using in-place upgrade
Windows usually isn’t very happy when you try to move it to a different PC. If you were to take the hard drive out of one PC, install it in a different PC, and try to boot it up, unless the system...
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