Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

How to create a bootable USB drive that can install any edition of Windows 7

A guide to creating a bootable USB drive that can be used to install any edition of Windows 7, and a neat trick for extending the 30-day trial to 120 days.

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Fixed: No new pictures or videos were found on this device

A fix for that irritating ‘No new pictures or videos were found on this device’ message in Windows when importing images a second time.

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Citrix XenApp Web Plugins

Links to downloads of recent versions of the “Citrix Online plug-in – Web”.

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Help Desk – XP and Office 2007

A repository of quick fixes for various issues that arise in the Windows XP, Office 2007, Hummingbird DM, GroupWise environment.

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Windows 7 time off when dual booting Fedora Linux

I’m dual booting Linux (Fedora 11 with Gnome) and Windows 7. If I set the time in Windows, then boot into Linux, the time remains correct. When I boot back into Windows, the time is off by a few hours. After some reading, it seems that Linux is using UTC time and Windows is using [...]

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Fixed: USB drive unusable, unformattable, and reporting 0 bytes capacity

Fixing a USB flash drive that pops up “Please insert a disk into drive X:.” when the drive letter is clicked, reports 0 bytes capacity in the properties, and cannot be formatted in Windows.

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Cold cloning without the Enterprise VMware Converter Boot ISO

How to build a free VMware cold clone boot CD using MOA, the 180-day trial version of Windows Server 2003, and the freely available VMware Converter.

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PHP pages return a 404 error on IIS

I was installing PHP 5 on an IIS 6 server when I ran into what turns out to be a pretty common problem. PHP appeared to be installed correctly, but browsing to any page with a .php extension returned a 404 Page Not Found error. While the steps below fixed this for me, I had [...]

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Troubleshooting Xbox Live connection problems and Open NAT issues

Resolve Xbox 360 NAT issues by port forwarding or configuring your router to use bridged mode.

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Building an IIS web server on a home LAN

This post explains how to set up an IIS 5.1 server on your home network for serving web pages, and then add it to your Workgroup so you can edit those pages from a different PC without the need for an FTP server and client. You’ll need a PC running Windows 2000, XP Professional, or [...]

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