Recently I started getting some Flash display problems. The Flash graphics was appearing in the upper left corner of the screen and flashing intermittently. I believe these problems started occurring when I upgraded to the most recent version, 10.3.181.14. Here is what I tried and what worked for me. I tried reinstalling the current version [...]
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Windows Update was failing to install several updates Office 2003( KB2502786, KB2509503, KB2522981, and KB2464588). I eventually found the answer. I opted to manually update the registry. I only had to apply the first registry change described in KB2258121 for the updates to work. This article (KB2258121) provides a fix for a problem in which [...]
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From the downloaded ISO it took me 1 hour and 37 minutes to install SP1 and reboot. In fact it took me 21 minutes to shutdown and reboot since it had a lot of updating it was doing during the shutdown and startup.
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I am not sure how I got this 2.2 GB folder on my “C” partition but it was not necessary. With free space on my “C” partition down to 5% it was time to clean house. The Vista instructions will work as written if you run the Disk Cleanup utility as the Administrator. If you [...]
I think I can finally say that I have finished the upgrade, Free Cell is installed . This summer I installed Windows 7 RC and was pleased with the performance and the look and feel on my 3 year old laptop. It would have been nice if I could have just upgraded the RC version [...]
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Consider the following scenario: You connect a Windows Vista-based computer to a network. A router or other device that is configured as a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server is configured on the network. The router or the other device does not support the DHCP BROADCAST flag. In this scenario, Windows Vista cannot obtain [...]
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Last weekend I took the plunge and installed Windows 7 RC. The hardest part was freeing up some disk space and partitioning the hard drive. After a few defrag runs I was ready to partition. Dual booting is the way to go. There are no special tricks. Just let Windows 7 install in the unpartitioned [...]
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I made a couple of minor changes to the provided script and I got Script all data of a table – SQLServerCentral to work with SQL 2000. I like the idea of creating scripts to transfer/update/re-create tables. I have been using Excel to create scripts to update shipping costs for some time. Nice work Florian!
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For the last couple of months I have been trying to fix an old ThinkPad that failed on us. It was a low priority item but we were pretty sure we would need it fixed eventually. In an unfortunate sequence of events the battery ran down, the LCD failed, and the disk/registry got corrupted. Under [...]
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