The Foley House

Start a command prompt and set the following variable: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 Start Device manager from the command line: devmgmt.msc On the view menu, click Show hidden devices. More info here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539

I've recently had an issue with my main desktop machine losing network connectivity overnight. No other machines are affected, only my desktop one. The problem computer is connected via wired ethernet to a Netgear GS105 Gigabit switch. The lights on the switch stay on, so there appears to be nothing wrong with the physical connection but the ...

I recently bought a D-Link DCS-6620G IP camera to replace a failed Panasonic one. I found the performance to be terrible. After running a network capture I discovered the following: My Vista desktop would send two TCP SYN requests with ECN and CWR flags set.The camera would resond to each of these with a TCP RST.My Vista desktop would then ...

I recently modifed my DPM 2007 installation to backup my local users folder on Windows Vista Ultimate x64. This would not work and kept producing the following event logs when I attemted to manually sync the share: Log Name:      ApplicationSource:        Application ...

I've found this quite useful in debugging slow logins or incorrect application of group policy. Create the following DWORD value:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\UserEnvDebugLevel Set:0x00030002 - Masses of debug info0x00010001 - Normal It logs to:%Systemroot%\Debug\UserMode\Userenv.log More details ...

I think I've found the cause, with not a littlew help, of all my multiple taskeng processes that have been plaguing my x64 SP1 Vitsa box: Open Task Scheduler from Administrative Tools Delete any User_Feed tasks Type 'msfeedssync enable' at the command line to ...

What a day! I've learnt a hard lesson today. Never unbind IPv6 from Server 2008 if its running Exchange 2007. I had some problems adding some Vista laptops to a Server 2008 domain today. I couldn't determine if it was SP1 RC1, UAC being turned off or IPv6. The computers would not join the domain using the GUI. I had to manually extract the ...

Apparently, Windows Vista prefers to use a bastardisation of standby and hibernate as a default, storing memory contents to disk as well as low powered state in RAM.It doesn't help much if you want to power down your machine to transport it to another location though! To re-enable hibernate use the following command as an ...

Since installing Windows Vista Ultimate and a TV card on my desktop PC, I have been playing with Media Centre. Everything was working great except synchronising content to my Windows Mobile 5.0 device (an O2 XDA Orbit). I was only being offered the change to synchronise to the internal storage of the device. The XDA Orbit has just 64MB of ...

I had worked out sometime ago how to install Sky Anytime onto my Laptop (useful for those stays away), but I wanted to install the BBC iPlayer back onto my desktop after an upgrade to Windows Vista (I have no need for 4OD as it is delivered through my Virgin Media cable). It turns out that all you have to do is to change the user agent (UA) ...