The Foley House

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 ...

Just wanted to share a couple of excellent Media Center addons I have found recently. The first, called WebGuide4, allows you to access your Media Center PC through a web interface, including mobile:http://www.asciiexpress.com/wiki/ The second allows access to BBC iPlayer, ITV Catch Up and Channel 4 Catch Up from within Media ...

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 ...

My Media Center PC randomly decided to stop working. After a lot of searching and trying I finally found this: http://mymce.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/a-component-registration-failurea-critical-process-failurea-tuner-not-found-error/ The steps were: Close Media Center Click on the Start menu, choose run and type cmd Execute the command ...

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 ...

I have had a number of issues in getting my favourite burning program, Nero 7, working in Windows Vista Ultimate x64. These are: 1. Every time I login I receive a message ''Nero Home Has Stopped Responding''. When I click to end this process, it obviously starts again because the message keeps repeating forever.I have opened a support call with ...