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While preparing new template images for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, after the first round of installing Windows updates this happened:

Yeah sure enough, Windows 8/8.1 and IE 10/11 has its own builtin Flash player. This highly potent combination outright refuses you to download the real Adobe Flash Player from Adobe’s website. It hasn’t occured at all to Microsoft that we, the users, might need the real Adobe Flash Player for software other than IE, say […]

A student’s Toshiba Satellite laptop equipped with Windows 8 and Secure Boot refused to shut down by simply pressing the power button. The solution is to hold down the Fn button prior to holding down the power button. Keep both buttons depressed until you hear the laptop actually shutting down. Boy, do I love Secure […]

If you receive such an error message from Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014, you might need to reinstall the VBA 7 modules. See http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item/print?siteID=123112&id=21910314&linkID=9242018 for more details. The short story is to shut down Inventor and reinstall the VBA 7 modules using either 3rdParty\x64\VBA\Vba7.MSI or 3rdParty\x86\VBA\Vba7.MSI from the installation media or from C:\Autodesk.

Yesterday I downgraded a student’s laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 7. The student was assigned a legit MS DreamSpark product key in case you were wondering.

Sometimes the default location of the Client-side Caching database is just plain unsuitable. Client-side Caching, or CSC, is used for storing offline files, local copies of files normally stored on Windows shares, stored on Windows servers. (The Norwegian term is «frakoblede filer».) The default location for the CSC database is C:\Windows\CSC. If you like to […]

Ever tried activating Microsoft Windows 8 Professional using only GUI tools when installed from a volume license DVD? Right, you can’t, for three reasons:

Here’s a conundrum aimed at those dabbling in the internals of Microsoft Windows 7.

A collegue’s desktop computer has twice lost touch with its DVD drive. The drive is OK, it’s recognized by the BIOS, it even booted from a FreeBSD DVD when told to do so. Yet Windows 7 refused to display the drive. The Device Manager utility complained about a missing driver service and something about a […]

It’s amazing how easy it’s to lock oneself out from doing anything usable in Microsoft Windows. This particular operating system should be more careful of protecting its handling of executeable files.

Category: Microsoft

Trouble updating fresh Windows Server 2008 R2

Adobe Flash Player, MS Windows 8/8.1, and MS IE 10/11

Toshiba Satellite laptop, Windows 8, and Secure Boot – what a combination!

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014: VBA failed to initialize. Please restart Inventor.

Samsung rocks — Dell and HP have something to learn

Relocating the Client-side Caching database in Windows 7 and 8

Activating Microsoft Windows 8 Professional when installed from a volume license DVD

Persisting IPv6 DNS resolver addresses

CD/DVD drives in Windows 7 and code 39 error

Abolish bad legacy systems