Jan
12
Clean and Organize Your Desktop for Windows 7
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Problem: I had a user that had a problem with their icons periodically rearranging themselves on his Windows 7 desktop. Quite frustrating, especially if you have a ton of shortcuts on it… Solution: Found a program called “Fences” by Stardock, which is a 3rd part program that will organize your icons into little fences. You Continue reading →
Sep
27
Windows 7: right mouse and typing performance slow
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Problem: After a fresh install of a Dell Optiplex workstation, the performance of the mouse and keyboard significantly deteriorated. Right mouse clicking on anything would sometimes take seconds for the complete menu to appear. Also, when typing the characters would fall behind my actual typing. At first I thought it was a video card issue Continue reading →
Sep
13
Microsoft Certificate Services Won’t Start: getting error
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Problem: When trying to start Microsoft Certificate Services on my Server 2003 box, I get the following error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. 0x800b0101 (-2146762495). Solution. The Root CA for the server expired and needed to be Continue reading →
Jun
1
Problem: My Mail Foundry server was having some issues and I couldn’t get into it via the web access… I would receive the error: ‘unable to load data’ or something close to that. Either way I wasn’t able to get into the system to allow tech support in. Solution: There is a way to enable Continue reading →
May
10
Windows could not search for new updates error: Server 2008 R2
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Problem: When trying to run Microsoft Windows updates on my Windows Server 2008 machine, I would get the following error: “ Windows could not search for new updates” No matter what I tried, it would not connect to Windows update…. I was able to update in the past but it all of a sudden started Continue reading →