Formerly known as Microsoft Antispyware, the software giant released Windows Defender in 2006 to protect its number one operating system at the time, Windows XP, from spyware. Simple to use and supported in Windows Vista and 7, Windows Defender is well-known for its reliability and stability.
Unfortunately, Windows Defender does occasionally become corrupted and must be [...]

Recently, I setup a Windows 2003 Server with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, along with ISA Server. When I tried to connect to the SQL Server from a remote machine, I was presented with the following error:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or [...]

Cryptic Windows errors are about as common as fish in the sea. I’ve previously written about many strange Windows errors, such as:
Unsupported wireless network device detected. System Halted
Instruction at referenced memory could not be read

If you have an older HP computer, you may sometimes get the following error when booting up your computer:
Error Message: 104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. System Halted. Remove device and restart.
This is one of those really technical errors and it’s unfortunately not easy to fix. However, it’s worth a shot before sending your computer back [...]

Yesterday, while copying some large files to an external hard drive, I was promptly issued this message by Windows:
The file “myfile” is too large for the destination file system.

So I wondered to myself what could possibly cause this issue. My external hard drive had tons of free space, so why would I not be able [...]

With Windows, you never know what crazy error message will one day pop up and scare the heck out of you! One error message that I have seen on a clients machine recently was:
Instruction at 0×000 referenced memory at 0×000. The memory could not be read.
Wow! What the heck does that even mean!? Well, just [...]