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no sound (dell precision m70, laptops, etc) http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm #6 http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm #371

Can’t connect to winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\default:StdRegProv stop “windows management instrumentation” service, rename “%windir%\system32\wbem\repository”, start service http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/help/wmi.mspx#EQKAC

system event logs were set to read only

So continuing with my Visual Studio 2008 installs (and how horrible the installation procedure is), I had a system that ran the Service Pack 1 install and seemed to hang at the end. Normally, I just schedule the install and let it do its thing with unattended setups and an auto-reboot at the end. I got a call from the… Continue reading Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 install hangs near the end (warning 1909 command prompt lnk)

So I’m running the Visual Studio 2008 install on a system the other day and it’s failing. Long story but we’re installing the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 redistributable first to avoid the automatic reboot with the unattended VS2008 install. So the .NET install runs in unattended mode and near the end, it gives an error: Error 25015.Failed to install assembly… Continue reading .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 setup error 25015 failed to install assembly access is denied

Ever since Microsoft began offering Virtual PC for free to download, a lot of users have been installing it to test out the usefulness of virtual machines. A couple laptop users complained that their machines would blue screen while starting up Windows with the wired network cable plugged in, although Windows would start up fine with the cable unplugged (which… Continue reading ndis.sys driver_irql_not_less_or_equal blue screen (bsod) after installing Virtual PC and booting up with network cable plugged in

Wondering why your Y and Z keys are swapped in X? That’s probably because the keyboard layout is set to German (de) instead of English (us). Did you say you used SUSE AutoYaST and had it configured for the english-us keyboard mapping? Well, we had a couple of AutoYaST configuration files and the layout problem only occurred for a couple… Continue reading SUSE AutoYaST setting X keyboard layout to German

Explorer.exe started using 100% CPU about 5 minutes after login. The user had run Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Trend Micro scans and nothing showed up. I took a look at the startup items with msconfig and couldn’t find anything myself. I first ran Process Explorer and couldn’t find anything obvious that was hooked into explorer.exe that would cause the problem (moral… Continue reading Explorer.exe 100% CPU usage after login (webcpl.dll)

While visiting a secure trusted site in IE, you may encounter links to files which cannot be opened or saved. You receive the message: Some files can harm your computer. If the file information below looks suspicious, or you do not fully trust the source, do not open or save this file. You search Microsoft.com and come up with KB840386:… Continue reading Some files can harm your computer.