If you are running Windows 8.1 and your CPU is high for the taskhost.exe then it could be if you are using a local account with ‘user’ in the name. MS recommends not using a name called user. See MS Article
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Love the Gadgets on the Desktop for Windows 7. Even installed the Gadgets add on in Windows 8. The other day my Gadgets disappeared on screen. Even right-click and hit Gadgets did nothing. Found this article online that fixed it. Basically you download the BAT file and then right-click on it […] Have had a few clients in that have issue doing Windows updates . Would give an error “Windows Update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running”. Also some would have issues of downloading anything through the browser. Turns out it was caused by Intel Rapid Storage was corrupted. Reinstalled […] I have a dual boot setup on my 1 PC. I have Windows 7 installed on a 1 TB drive. I then added a second small SSD drive and installed Windows 8.1 on this. This gives me a dual boot option. I can boot into either OS. I decided to upgrade my small […] Client got this when PC came in for Virus/Spyware removal. Found this article online that fixed the issue. Basically had to boot into Safe Mode to get into Windows and edit the registry. Fix User Account In Windows Vista and 7
Here are 2 articles that explain how to move the WSUS on SBS servers. The main issue to remember for both of them is when you run the SQL Server Management Studio is right-click on it and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR. If you don’t you won’t be able to connect to the database. SBS 2008 Article […] When Setting up Simply Accounting or the newer Sage 50 software you will need to modify the firewall if you are running a multi user version. On the server or workstation where the data sits you will need to either disable the firewall or I recommend modify the firewall to allow the application […] A few of my clients are running POP3 Connector on Windows SBS servers (2003,2008 and 2011). The issue is if the disk space gets below 4 Gig on the C drive it will not retrieve the email. This also happens if you use a 3rd party utility like POPcon. If you can’t free up space […] On one of my servers I am using the On-board Intel RAID 1 setup with 2 WD Black 1TB drives. The server is running Windows 2008R2. The other day the Intel Raid software said that the one drive had failed. Sometimes I just re-enable the drive and have it re-mirror and everything is […] Client that just bought a new Windows 7 PC having issues getting POP3 email and going to certain websites. They are using a really old PC as their router. I had to lower their MTU value on the PC in order to get everything working. Normally you don’t have to change the MTU but dealing […] |
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