Often I find that if a computer is exhibiting weird behaviour including : blue screens, hard drive corruption, reboots and other strange phenomena, the fault is more often than not the RAM modules installed in the PC.
But how can one be sure without going out and purchasing new memory modules and hoping that this is […]
Posted on October 29th, 2006 by john
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From time to time it becomes necessary to regenerate temporary terminal server licenses. Whether it be a genuine error which is preventing you from using temporary licenses or the fact that someone “forgot” to purchase TSCALS within the grace period allowed by Microsoft.
In my experience the below will fix 99.9% of problems surrounding temporary licenses […]
Posted on October 29th, 2006 by john
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These problems can be thoroughly frustrating to solve. Often poor coding techniques will lead to programs and installers trying to do things that a normal user will not have permissions to perform. To correct these you need to give the user the correct permissions in the right places without giving them too many rights. It […]
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by john
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Situation: I have to remote support a lot of different users at different companies, not a problem when they’re in their offices, I VPN in then use VNC in a pretty standard way. The difficulty arises when they are out on the road, at home or somewhere with an internet connection but no vpn setup
Assuming […]
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by john
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SVCHost hosts all services on a workstation/server. It looks up in the registry for services to run and runs them. This is a pain because you can’t see which services are being run by which SVChosts.exe in the tasklist if you need to kill the associated process.
Typing “Tasklist /svc” at the command prompt will display […]
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by john
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