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Quick Solution: Check the permissions on the root of C: and ensure that BUILTIN\Users have Read access. Long Story: 8000FFFF == E_UNEXPECTED, not very helpful… Had a client where windows update was continually failing with the error code
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Ran into an issue this week that was strange. When you TS’d to the box it would just show a blank background and nothing else. If you tried to launch task manager it would just fail silently to the user (actually access denied in the debugger).
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This is an FYI post so others on the intertubes can find the answer quickly. If you get this error: Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Date: 4.11.2008 07:20:41 Event ID: 1000 Task Category: (100) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer:
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Just got released yesterday: X86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ff6e897-23ce-4a36-b7fc-d52065de9960&DisplayLang=en X64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d647a60b-63fd-4ac5-9243-bd3c497d2bc5&DisplayLang=en
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You've probably heard that netmon3.1 is out , but you might not know that you can easily launch a capture at the command prompt. I find this useful when we're waiting on a repro, we want a capture, but we don’t know when that's going to happen.
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System Page Table Entry (PTE) issues are some of the top support issues for servers that run large server applications and have a relatively large amount of Random Access Memory (RAM). PTEs are structures used to track pages of RAM, similar to the way
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I've ran into this a few times here and each time I stare at my screen for some time (depends on how much coffee I've had) and then remember this change. When you install Vista SP1 or install Win2k8 the console switch for MSTSC will be ignored (it's gone).
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Saw this on the Windows Vista team blog today. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943899 This update improves performance, responsiveness, and reliability of Windows Vista in various scenarios. This update resolves the following issues on a Windows Vista-based
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I posted on how you can use Wevtutil to enumerate the event logs on server core or LH. Someone left a comment asking how could they just return the errors from the System log instead of all the events. Seems like a reasonable question and with a bit of
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Backstory: With the advent of Windows Vista there are changes made in how the operating system determines if it can take a kernel memory dump or not. Starting in Vista the amount of memory allocated for kernel mode could vary dynamically . If the pagefile
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I was tracking a high CPU issue this week and needed to know when one of my servers was pegged so I could investigate. I could of used perfmon I guess but I really like to do everything I can from the command prompt. I always like it when there is a tool
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You might find yourself debugging an issue and a thread you are interested in is paged out. Here's the steps to use to page in the stack for the kernel side and user side... Be careful when doing this on a live machine that you want to release after debugging
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Had an issue come in today where the customer requested that one of their drives on SAN storage be expanded. They carved out the necessary disk space and expanded the LUN which was verified showing 430GB total on the array. Rescanned in Disk Management
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http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194 This update resolves some compatibility issues and reliability issues in Windows Vista. By applying this update, you can achieve better reliability and hardware compatibility in various scenarios. This update
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Pre-Vista it could be an issue if you didn't have debugging turned on via the boot.ini file and your system stopped booting. Well in Vista and 2k8 you can enable "Debugging mode" on boot by hitting F8 after POST. You can also turn off driver signing verification
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