How to Repair Corrupted Excel Files
Excel is probably just as important to most workers as wearing clothes and eating food. I pretty much use Excel on a daily basis to do everything from managing finances […]
Windows XP or Windows 7 Won’t Boot into Safe Mode
Usually when something goes wrong in Windows, we can fix it by restarting the computer and going into Safe Mode, which basically loads the bare essentials that are needed for […]
Fix “Windows Cannot Connect to the Printer” Error
One problem I’ve run across a lot with clients is not being able to print to a networked printer. The most popular error message I see is Windows Cannot Connect […]
Fix Task Manager Problems in Windows
This post covers two problems you may have experienced with the Task Manager in Windows. These include:
Task Manager Missing Menus and Tabs
Disabled Task Manager
If you’re having either one of these problems with the Task Manager in Windows 7, read this post to fix your problem. Enjoy!
Fix Windows 7 MBR
Unfortunately with Windows 7, the MBR (Master Boot Record) can become corrupted just like in Windows XP or Windows Vista. If the MBR becomes corrupt in Windows 7, you might […]
Fix: The World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) did not register the URL prefix http://x.x.x.x:80/ for site 1
Fix for The World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) did not register the URL prefix http://x.x.x.x:80/ for site 1. The site has been disabled. The data field contains the […]
Fix: Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager Missing Tabs
I’ve been building some new Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers for a new deployment running Windows Server 2003 SP2. I had originally configured the servers to use the integrated Broadcom NICs, […]
Troubleshooting Exchange Error 4.4.7 Delivery Delay and Failures
One of our partners keeps receiving the following messages when trying to email certain domains: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY. YOU […]
Resources for Troubleshooting Windows Event 2019: The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty
One of my client’s servers needs to be rebooted three times a day because of server hangs. A look in Event Viewer finds the following error corresponding to the time […]
Identifying Processes Running as svchost.exe
I have previously written about experiences with systems becoming unresponsive and reporting svchost.exe utilizing 99% of the CPU. Since so many different .dll’s run as this generic host process, identifying […]