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Thursday, March 15, 2007

How to install Microsoft XPS printer

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4d951911-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041&DisplayLang=en

High CPU untilisation of spoolsv.exe

Check if there are documents pending in the printers spool. Recreate all printers.
It helped me. http://www.adminnotes.com/index/2006/01/spoolsvexe_caus.html

This effect was on several PCs after February MS patch.

Vista and computer only wireless 802.1X authentication

AuthMode in XP was a registry setting, in Vista is is slightly more complex: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929847

Friday, February 23, 2007

.NET runtime error Event Id 0

If you have this bug in your evenviewer: unable to open shim database version registry key-v2.0.50727.00000 - try to install a patch http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918642

Note you will need to be registered on connect.microsoft.com. Go there and subscribe to any Beta testing and then you will be able to download the patch.

winmsd

A quick and easy way to collect inventory from a remote Windows PC:

run under domain admin account: winmsd /computer PC_name /nfo PC_name

This will create a file in curent directory with all PC HW/SW details.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Email security guideline (from US NIST)

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-45-version2/SP800-45v2.pdf

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Add RAM to HP nc6000

Amazing, but there are video guides on youtube on how to change RAM for quite old PC model HP nc6000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Y4MKI1x0M

Thanks to yourtube poster and shame to HP that I could not find the same info on HP.com when I needed it.