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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 driver on Vista. Trying to remove it and then install the Vista driver failed all the time.  The problem was the XP driver first installed the LexBce Server to take over the spooler. One of the major reasons I hate Lexmark. I had to point the spooler back to default and then reinstall the Vista driver.

To fix the spooler back to fault you have to run the following at a command prompt. You have to run as administrator rights in order to run. Right-Click on the command prompt and select Run as administrator. Once the prompt is active type the following:

sc config spooler depend= RPCSS

Once set properly then restart the PC or go into services and start the print spooler. Now do the normal install of the Vista driver (remember not to plug in the printer until asked. Almost all USB devices should be installed like this)

October 10th, 2008 | Category: Fix Problems | Comments are closed

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 Pro connected to a windows domain go to My Computer-Tools-Folder Options-Offline Files. Turn off Offline files. I normally turn it off because it can cause slowness and nuisance if you don’t need it. Only time I activate it is on people running laptops that needs to access files off the server while away from the domain.

October 10th, 2008 | Category: Fix Problems, Windows | Comments are closed

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 subinacl.exe is not installed, download and install subinacl.exe.

3. Create a file called reset.cmd with Notepad. Copy the text below into the file reset.cmd and run reset.cmd from an account with administrative privileges:

Windows XP Home Edition:

cd /d "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f

Windows XP Professional:

cd /d “%ProgramFiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools”

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f

secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose

4. Run windows update.

Windows XP SP3 should now install.

September 26th, 2008 | Category: Fix Problems, Windows | Comments are closed

E-mail Hoaxes People Fall For

Here is a link to tell about some of the hoaxes people get in their e-mail and have fallen for them.

8 Crazy E-Mail Hoaxes

September 18th, 2008 | Category: Jokes | Comments are closed

Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Video 2

September 17th, 2008 | Category: Jokes | Comments are closed

Speed up XP Performance

Here is an article about speeding up XP

September 6th, 2008 | Category: Windows | Comments are closed

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 to what vmware does by default) lets the upload run at its normal speed. Also with the bridge you can access the guest through the network from another PC on the network or even the host easier. Follow the instructions under the manual for Virtualbox (reference Page 74)

August 16th, 2008 | Category: Fix Problems, Ubuntu | Comments are closed

Survey Says!! XP!

August 1st, 2008 | Category: Vista, Windows | Comments are closed

What’s Wrong With Microsoft’s ‘Mojave Experiment?

I really like this article. Really describes Microsoft’s trickery.

What’s Wrong With Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment?

August 1st, 2008 | Category: Vista, Windows | Comments are closed

Describing Vista As A Miss For Microsoft

Here is a clip from a top ten Bill Gates greatest hits and misses article I saw on Digg. This describes Vista very well on why its not very popular.

“Vista doesn’t suck. Let’s just get that off our chests. In fact, it’s a quite capable, secure and sexy OS when you get right down to it. Unfortunately, its problems just loomed too large for many folks to overlook. A multitude of delays and a rapidly diminishing feature list soured people right out of the gate, and once the dust settled people just weren’t happy with the minor improvements they were getting in exchange for their hard-earned monies and fairly mandatory RAM upgrades. Mix that in with the standard driver incompatibilities of any Microsoft OS upgrade, and you’ve got a whole bunch of disgruntled downgraders on your hands — and plenty of bad press to fill in any remaining gaps. Sadly, improvements to Media Center, aesthetics and even that quirky little sidebar got overlooked in the process. Microsoft’s already scrambling to get Windows 7 together to capture the multitude of users that’ve decided to skip Vista altogether, let’s just hope it’s not too late.”

June 28th, 2008 | Category: Reviews, Vista | Comments are closed
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