Had a client system blue screening, initial thought hard drive. Ran Dell integrated IDE diagnostics and it returned a fail code of 4. There was no valuable data so I ran Spinrite against the system and Spinrite completed with no errors. Re-ran a Seagate diagnostic (using UBCD diagnostics) and this time no error code. I’ll replace [...]
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Tim Barrett, No Geek Left Behind, posted that owners of Visio 2007 can get LAN Surveyor for FREE through June 30, 2008, that’s a $499 value FREE.
Visit Tim’s blog post to see a video demo and a link to get the software.
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Microsoft has an easy to use tool to read those .DMP files your client receives after a blue screen.
After a blue screen Windows will create a .DMP file in C:\Windows\Minidump along with a date stamp.
Get the free Microsoft debugger tool here.
-Then install, it will install into the standard folder C:\Program files\Debugging tools for Windows
-Run windbg.exe [...]
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This last week some of the utilities I have in my tool set have saved me.
Last week I imaged a client system to an external USB drive prior to flattening the system. Image went fine, then after the rebuild I attempted to mount the image to transfer over some data. Pretty standard stuff, right? Wrong, [...]
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A while back we brought on a new employee who works half of each day at a client site, we needed an easy way to communicate outside of email and the phone, so we looked to IM. We were looking for a secure IM that would be server based, easy to install and use, no ads etc. but [...]
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