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Background on XP Can’t Change

Found this on the Internet. Looked at a lot of fixes and this is the only one that helped me. If you can’t change the background screen on XP because everything is grayed out this. Suggest backing up the Registry first. Here is a great utility for this. Then try the following:

Make […]

PowerPoint File Won’t Open From Outlook Express

Found this on the Internet. It occurs when you have Windows XP with SP2 and are using MS Powerpoint Viewer 2003 or 2007. If you try and open the attachment from Outlook Express it gives an error. The following gives you some options:

Powerpoint won’t open from Outlook Express

One of […]

Lexmark Deskjet won’t install in Vista

Not a fan of Lexmark deskjet printers. Don’t get me started on their cheap colour laser. Their high-end mono lasers are not bad.

Had a client that bought a new Vista PC and could not get the lexmark x1140 printer driver installed. Turned out the user tried to install the XP […]

Winlogon.exe at 50% CPU

Had a client that was getting 50% cpu on the winlogon.exe in the task manager. Did the normal virus/spyware check/remove. Found out it was related to the offline option in XP when connected to Windows Domains. Turning off the offline files and restarting the PC solved the problem. If you have an XP […]

Access Denied When Installing XP SP3

Had a client that had this problem. Found this on the internet.

Access Denied When Installing XP SP3

While installing Windows XP SP3, you receive the following error:

Windows XP Service Pack 3 installation failed. Access is denied.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Resolution:

1. Backup the Registry

2. If […]

Virtualbox Upload Speed Slowness Fix

I have been playing around with Virtualbox 1.6 under Ubuntu and find it a great way to run Windows under Ubuntu. One thing that really bugged me was the upload speed inside the Windows guest. Using the default NAT network configuration made it really slow. By switching to a Bridge mode for network card(similar […]

Upgrade Firefox 3.0 On Ubuntu Gave An Error

When I upgraded my Firefox to the full 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 it started giving me an error when starting. If I started the Firefox 3 from a folder on the desktop it would start fine. So I figured it was an extention or cache problem. To solve my problem I decided to rename […]

Remove Sonic Update Manager

Some of my clients with Dell PC’s are getting Sonic Update Manager errors on startup. Found this on the Internet that will explain what it is and how to remove it.

Sonic Update Manager

What is Sonic Update Manager? […]

Error 14 Not enough storage error on SBS 2003 Server

Have a client that was having issues on their SBS 2003 server. I needed to restart the server. After restarting the server I started to get the Error 14 error when it was trying to start some of the services (DHCP Server, WWW Services, Exchange Routing service and even trying to get into the […]