For a few weeks now I have been puzzling over why my CDRW/DVD ROM driver refuses to load under Windows Vista. I naively assumed that I needed to find a replacement driver from the manufacturer (IBM in my case), or perhaps my drive was bad. After replacing my laptop docking station and the drive unit , [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft Windows’
CDRW/DVDROM Driver or Corrupt under Vista/XP
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista on June 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Active Directory, DNS, and Exchange
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows on November 28, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Phew, if there was ever a trio of software services that don’t play together nicely it would have to be the three mentioned in the title of this blog post. Setting up DNS and AD correctly is tantamount to having Exchange server work properly. God forbid you mess up a setting anywhere, then the whole setup [...]
LUA and Windows XP
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Microsoft Windows, Security on January 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »
For those of you that read my blog often (or talk to me directly), you’ll know that I am constantly advocating that users operate their computers under a least-privileged user account – LUA. Many have taken my advice, of not running day-to-day operations under an administrator account, or account with elevated privileges (yes, that includes [...]
Change WindowsXP Bootskin
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Microsoft Windows on October 4, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Fed up with the usual Windows XP logo screen at boot up? No problem, check out StarDock’s BootSkin application to change it. I am amused by the Commodore C-64 skin :)
Reinstalling COM+ on Windows XP
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Microsoft Windows on April 20, 2005 | 48 Comments »
I’ve been experiencing some problems with COM+. I noticed a problem this week when I went to open an ASP.NET application in Visual Studio.NET (I haven’t been developing web apps for a while). After some investigation I found out that IIS 5.1 was not serving ASP and ASPX pages and the event log was spitting [...]
