Did you know that a lot of files in Windows are not owned by you, even if you are the Administrator? They are instead owned by an entity called the […]
So while playing around with Windows 7 and installing it on various computers, I ran across an interesting error message that you might also see: Windows is unable to install […]
If you’ve recently upgraded to Windows 7 or did a clean install of Windows 7, the first thing you’ll want to do is run Windows Update to download the latest […]
Before you install more programs and drivers on your newly installed Windows 7 PC, make sure you have System Protection enabled. System protection is a feature that regularly creates and […]
With the release of Windows 7, there will be those people who still will want to revert back to Vista or XP for some reason or another. If you want […]
To save power, Windows automatically shuts down the power to USB ports. It surely saves power, but what if it is causing you problems with your auxiliary devices or if […]
How many times have you had to write up a quick query in SQL Management Studio for someone and then export the data out to Excel? Exporting data from SQL […]
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 […]
In SQL 2005, you may come across a situation where you need to generate a ALTER TABLE script, such as when adding a new column to a database or changing […]
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. […]
By default, the Google Chrome browser can currently only be downloaded and installed while connected to the Internet. The small file you download will start the installer, which will then […]
Last week, I encountered a server with its HTTPS port 80 already taken by another software. The “culprit” was unsurprisingly another web server software, namely IIS. Because the IIS users […]
By default, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 ship with Internet Explorer in Enhanced Security configuration, which is basically a locked down version that adds a bit of extra security to […]
Most components directly attached to your motherboard—including PCI slots, IDE controllers, serial ports, the keyboard port, and even your motherboard’s CMOS—have individual interrupt requests (IRQs) assigned to them. An interrupt […]
As an IT Administrator, there are many times when I make a change to Group Policy in Active Directory and need to manually refresh the policy on a client machine. […]