Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Windows 8 and more How Tos
Put simply Windows Volume Mount Points let you mount a drive as a folder. Mount Point are a disk (storage) feature that became available with Windows 2000 and are used today to assign one disk to a folder on another disk. The feature allows you to add physical storage (i.e. Read more…
When researching the error message below I found several websites making references to GUpdate as a virus. It is not. Eventsource: Windows System Event Log Windows Event ID: 10005 Message: DCOM got error “1053” attempting to start the service gupdate with arguments “/comsvc” in order to run the server: GUpdate Read more…
There are two common scenarios in which IT administrators find themselves trying to find “unknown” DHCP server on their network: A – Your Network Has Been Hacked Aa hacker may install a DHCP server on your network to allow them to specify their own DNS server. DNS (Domain Name Service) Read more…
If you are a Windows IT Administrator there will come a day when you find a computer is locked up in some way and you need to at least try and fix it, before you give up and power cycle it. Fortunately there are few easy commands and methods to Read more…
If you have a computer that cannot connect to the domain you might see the following error logged in the Windows System Event Log: Windows Event ID: 5722 Message: The session setup from the computer <NAME>. failed to authenticate. The name(s) of the account(s) referenced in the security database is Read more…
You might see either or both of these errors in your Event Viewer: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-WinRMEvent ID: 10149 Level: Warning Keywords: Classic Description: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.User Action If you did not intentionally stop the service, use the following command to see Read more…
A few years ago we wrote a very popular article on how to solve the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH when RDP’ing to a PC or Server. The nut of it is to try CTL+ALT+END to send a remotes CTL+ALT+DEL among other tricks. In this article we explain how to restart Read more…
What Is The Computer Equivalent of Authenticated Users? When working in Microsoft Active Directory using tools like Group Policy Editor, you may run into a situation in which you need to use an ALL COMPUTERS group. Fear not, the AD group of all computers is called DOMAIN COMPUTERS. This account Read more…
This is a very tricky error to understand: Windows Event ID: 16979 Message: The domain is incorrectly configured with a MinimumPasswordLength setting that is greater than 14. NOTE: until this is corrected, the domain will enforce a smaller MinimumPasswordLength setting of 14. Currently configured MinimumPasswordLength value: 15 For more information Read more…
About a decade ago we wrote an article explaining the differences between in an IP printer port and it WSD port monitor. However we have received lots of requests from people asking how to get the IP address of a WSD port. So we’ll answer the question directly in just Read more…
In the old-days, there were backups and while people were confused about the differences between a full backup and an incremental backup, they understood the general concept. A backup is a copy of your files or an entire server. Then in the mid-2000’s we started hearing about this crazy thing Read more…
If you are an IT administrator there will come a time when you find RDP problems and the first step to resolving them is to kill all the session. But how? Microsoft released a new utility named QUSER in Windows 7 and it applies to their operating systems made since Read more…
Most companies want to keep track of who is deleting files on their servers and while the process is not difficult, it is far from obvious. We demonstrate how to setup file and folder auditing as well as the creation of the Group Policy Object and then finish showing that Read more…
Even if you are a computer tech, new computer terminology can be confusing. In previous articles we have explained On-Prem, Virtual Machines and most recently Containers, but this article will explain them in non-technical terms. This is the second in our two part plain english series on the Evolution of Read more…
In today’s high tech world we are all inundated with acronyms but in the new world of cloud technologies so many of the acronyms sound the same. We have covered PaaS, IaaS, SaaS in several other articles in the past but this one is designed for non-techs. This is part Read more…
In this article we explain what defrag is and why it is generally a bad idea to run it on an SSD. But that is a very simple answer to a much more nuanced truth that most websites and forums have wrong. Keep skimming through this article if you want Read more…