November 3rd, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: How-To
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 [...]
November 1st, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: How-To
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 [...]
October 31st, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: Reviews, Tools Review
Have you ever gone to the Task Manager in Windows and clicked on the Process tab only to see that svchost.exe is taking up 100% of your CPU? Well, unfortunately that doesn’t help you figure out which program in Windows is actually using up all that processing power. In Windows, there are many processes, like [...]
October 30th, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: How-To
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 [...]
October 29th, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: Office Tips
If you have ever used Outlook for more than a month, you’ve probably seen several occasions where the message “The Outlook data file did not close properly“ pops up and you have to wait a few minutes for Outlook to repair the file. Pretty annoying, but at least you can view your emails after waiting. [...]
October 27th, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: Reviews, Tools Review
If you have your own small business, you’ve probably realized the benefits of free software by now! Yes, it’s nice to get a little technical support by buying software from big companies like Microsoft and Adobe, etc, but sometimes price trumps everything. Frankly, buying Adobe Acrobat for all employees in our company so that they [...]
October 26th, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: Reviews, Tools Review
Looking for the absolute best protocol analyzer out there? My favorite by far is none other than Wireshark, an awesome program that allows deep inspection into hundreds of protocols in real-time. The program runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and just about any other OS platform out there. There are a host [...]
October 25th, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: How-To
One thing I’ve always enjoyed about working in IT over the last 8 years is trying to successfully find a solution to tough Windows error messages. I’ve written about many before, such as The Device Cannot Start and Stop: 0x00000F4 error blue screen, etc, etc. Another one I came across recently was the following: Microsoft [...]
October 24th, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: Networking
Remote Differential Compression is a feature of Windows Vista whereby data can be synchronized with a remote source using compression that helps to minimize the amount of traffic that needs to be sent across the network. When you are copying files from your Vista computer to a network location, it will automatically try to use [...]
October 23rd, 2008 by Aseem Kishore | File in: How-To
I have Windows Vista installed on a virtual PC and recently I’ve not been able to install any Windows updates because I keep getting an error saying that the update failed. Taking a look at the error, it says the following: Failed error code 8E5E03FA Not very helpful! The event viewer does not show anything [...]