Category: Windows

  • Run IIS in 32-bit mode on a 64 bit machine

    IIS 7 / 7.5 / 8 On IIS 7 / 7.5 / 8,  configure website or web application to run under 32 bit mode can be configured by opening a command prompt and typing following command and press ENTER. %windir%system32inetsrvappcmd set config -section:applicationPools -applicationPoolDefaults.enable32BitAppOnWin64:true You can achieve the same goal in IIS Manager by opening…

  • How Can I Uninstall IE9

    IE9 Uninstalling is done via Windows Update control panel.  Select the view installed updates and then uninstall IE9 via the context menu. If you want to uninstall IE9 just because of degraded performance when viewing websites, you can try to turn off GPU rendering which might workaround the performance issue. In Internet Options, select the…

  • Hyper-V VM Slow on Windows Server 2008 R2

    I recently upgraded my virtual machine hosting server from Window Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2. There are some noticeable performance drop, especially on virtual machines that handles big log files, the automation script execution time can take 200% or more than it was in a VMHOST with Windows Server 2008. I have done…

  • Windows Server Features or Role Services required by this product are not enabled

      When you install Office Web Apps on windows 7 that has Sharepoint 2010, you will see following error message Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): Windows Server Features or Role Services required by this product are not enabled. For a complete list, refer to the link below. For the list…

  • Install PowerShell From Command Line

    To install PowerShell on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, following features needs to be installed. NetFx2-ServerCore NetFx3-ServerCore MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell Because Powershell is built on DotNet framework, DotNet 2.0 and 3.5  has to be installed prior to PowerShell installation. To install PowerShell from command line, run following from elevated command prompt DISM.exe /online…

  • Enable DotNet 3.5 from command line

    To enable DotNet 3.5 from command line, run following from elevated command prompt dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3

  • Windows Live Essentials Setup fails

    When setting up Windows Live Essentials, the setup installer might fail with one of following error code. 0x80070643 Solution: See Error 0×80070643 When Install Windows Live Essentials 0x80040609 Solution: Turn on Windows Firewall 0x8104000b Source WaitForCatalog Solution: For Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta, see Live Essentials Beta Install Error 0x8104000b For Live Essential Wave 3,…

  • Windows Live Essentials Beta is released

    Windows Live Essentials Beta is released Today Microsoft announces releasing the Windows Live Essentials Beta, which include new versions of Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Sync, Live Writer and more   You can download it from http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta.  You can read more about the new features here or watch the video. I also had a post for…

  • WordPress 3.0 Cannot Export

    WordPress 3.0 is finally released with some great new features. I just upgraded my site to 3.0 today. The upgrade was smooth, however, I find that export doesn’t work any more. When I try to push export button to download posts xml file locally, I get following error. Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or…

  • Manual Uninstall Windows Desktop Search

    Here is how to uninstall Windows Desktop Search (WDS) as it is not visible in add-remove programs Manual uninstall Windows Desktop Search 3 Click on the Start Menu, then Run. Type cmd in the box and click OK. This will bring up the command line. Type the following and press enter %windir%$NtUninstallKB917013$spuninstspuninst.exe /q /promptrestart A…