Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a service built into Windows that transfers files in the background using idle network bandwidth. It basically acts as a download manager for Windows Update and other services by being able to resume from broken or partial downloads. If you are having problems with downloading Windows updates because BITS [...]

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Over at Online Tech Tips, I wrote a post on how to use Bootvis to speed up the boot time on your Windows XP or Vista PC. It’s a good tool for optimizing the Windows boot up process for best performance. The only problem with Bootvis is that it is no longer supported by Microsoft [...]

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Have you ever run into the situation where you either were trying to install a piece of software and it failed in the middle or you ran into problems trying to uninstall a program because of corrupted install files? Well in either case, it causes big problems because you either can’t use the program you [...]

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If you’ve recently upgraded to Exchange 2007, you may have noticed that two really useful columns in Exchange 2003, Size and Total Items, are missing! Personally, I found this very annoying because it was a great way to quickly see which Exchange users were taking up the most space on the server. The worst thing [...]

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Here’s another problem that I recently ran into on a client machine running Windows Vista: Host Process Rundll32 has stopped working This message kept popping up whenever we tried to open the Windows Security Center. It would pop up 10 times and then disappear. Nothing bad would happen to the system like blue screen or [...]

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Yesterday I wrote a post on how to install and configure a new Server Core installation using the command prompt. In that article, I talked about setting an Administrator password, activating Server Core, renaming the computer, joining a Server Core machine to a domain, and turning on the firewall. Now that you have done that, [...]

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A Windows 2008 Server Core installation can be a bit tricky if you are not used to using the command line. There are a few things to remember before installing Windows Server Core onto a computer: You cannot upgrade a previous version of Windows Server, such as 2003, to Server Core installation. You must perform [...]

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I’ve been playing around with Windows Server 2008 Server Core and it’s definitely very different than working with the Standard version of Windows Server 2008. Server Core is a stripped down version of Windows Server 2008 in which only specific server roles are installed in order to reduce the management and maintenance needs significantly. It [...]

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As an IT support specialist, I love dealing with obscure Windows errors that sound absolutely ridiculous and make little to no sense. The great thing is most of the time you really don’t have to know what the exact problem is in order to fix the problem. Take, for example, the following strange error that [...]

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Recently, a friend of mine tried to install a program on his Windows Vista machine and the computer gave the blue screen of death error. After he restarted his computer, he tried to run a different program and he got the following message: The Windows Installer service could not be accessed. This can occur if [...]

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