Category: Windows
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HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Error when install Windows 8 Developer Preview on VPC
When you install the Windows 8 Developer Preview on Virtual PC in 64-bit windows. Your installation would fail with the blue screen of sad: : ( Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn’t handle, and now it needs to restart You can search for the error online: HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
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Capture Single Monitor Screenshot on Dual Monitors
When you hit PrintScreen key, windows will take screenshot on the monitor and copy it to clipboard. But if you have dual monitors setup, you will find screenshot of both monitors are captured. You might wonder how to just capture the single screenshot on the monitor you are working on. The answer is ALT +…
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IE9 Go to an intranet site for a single word entry in the address bar
Unlike IE8, in IE9, if you type an intranet site name in the address bar without http, IE9 will redirect you to the bing search page with the site name as keyword. IE9 also recognize you might want to go to an intranet so there is prompt pop up ask if you want to go…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 ISO download
After Microsoft releases Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 to public, Microsoft now provides single evaluation media ISO for Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 for free download. To download the official ISO just access http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd459137.aspx and logon with your windows live ID. Or use this Direct Download Link…
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SQL Server 2005 The full-text search service cannot start
After you install SQL Server 2005 RTM on windows server 2008, the full-text search service cannot start. This is because the full-text search service depends on the NTLMSSP (NTLM Security Support Provider) service but the NTLMSSP service does not exist on Windows Server 2008. To resolve this problem, simple install SQL Server 2005 SP3 SQL…
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Syspreped Windows 7 fail with “Windows could not finish configuring the system”
After you have installed a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, install and configure windows features, install your own app, and then run sysprep command to create an image that is ready to be deployed. When you boot windows for the first time, it might comes up with following message at the windows setup…
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Install Remote Server Administration Tools on Windows 7 SP1
Remote Server Administrator Tools (RSAT) is not compatible with Windows 7 SP1. If you install Remote Server Administration Tools on Windows 7 SP1 slipstreamed media, you will get following error. The update is not applicable to your computer That’s because current RSAT version only supports Windows 7 RTM. To workaround this issue, you can Install…
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Fix The Windows Search service is not installed error in Windows Server 2008 R2
If you use Windows Server 2008 R2 as work station for daily work. You might notice that outlook search very slow. This is because by default Windows Search Service is not enabled on windows server 2008 R2.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 New Features
Other than rolls up all previous released windows patches since RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 contains two new features. Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX. Dynamic Memory Dynamic Memory is a memory management feature for Hyper-V VM administrators. Dynamic Memory allows administrator allocates a range of memory to indivual VMs and windows system will automatically adjust…
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Enable/Disable ipv6 in command line
By default IPv6 is not enabled on windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2003. However, its very easy to enable IPv6 with netsh (net shell) command line tool. Enable ipv6 netsh interface ipv6 install Disable ipv6 netsh interface ipv6 uninstall To verify if ipv6 is enabled, run ipconfig /all and see if ipv6 address is…