I needed to run the MSINFO32 command recently, on a Windows Server 2003 machine, but it failed with an error stating:
Windows cannot open Help and Support because a system service is not running. To fix …

A quick tip for setting the title that appears in Internet Explorer is to fire up the registry and navigate to HKCU->Software->Microsoft->Internet Explorer->Main. Look for the entry “Windows Title” and edit this to show what …

A regular occurrence in our Exchange 2007 Server has been Event ID 1040 with Source MSExchange ActiveSync, the event appears approximately every fifteen minutes.

The event tells us:
Event Type:    WarningEvent Source:    MSExchange ActiveSyncEvent Category:    Requests …

Dropping the Google Docs gadget onto the iGoogle page is a useful feature as it offers quick access to regularly used documents however, using IE7, this particular gadget seems to have trouble remembering it has …

Having previously written about Power Shell and the power of its object nature I recently had cause to set about using it to list the available disk space on a particular server and I remember …

If you use the Subtotal option in Excel you may find it useful to copy just the sub-totals to another worksheet for further analysis. As an example of why you would do this, I sometimes …

This morning, users on one of our servers were receiving an error whilst trying to start Adobe Acrobat Reader version 8:
AcroRd32.exe - Unable to Locate DLL The dynamic link library MSVCP80.dll …

One of our Windows 2000 Terminal Servers keeps running low in disk space due in part to a proliferation of SHADOWnnnn (where nnnn is a four digit number) folders in the folder \WINNT\Microsoft .NET\Framework\v1.1.4322

The …

Further to my earlier post regarding Forefront and CA InoculateIT (Exchange 2007 Forefront Event ID 6014) there is an additional step required - to disable scanner update attempts for CA InoculateIT in the Security Administrator. …

A new regular occurrence in our Exchange Server 2007 Event Log has been Event 8207 for source MSExchangeFBPublish and it has taken quite some time to figure out how to fix it:

Error updating public …