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Quick Tip: Add Vista to a Workgroup

April 28, 2009 By Robert Owen

Here's the quick and easy tip of the day: How to add your Vista computer to a workgroup. Quick & Easy: Add Vista to a workgroup from Robert Owen on Vimeo. If you found this tip helpful and would like more, please post your requests in the comments below. This was made using Jing. It's free!! Go get it! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MicroSoft, Support Tagged With: Easy Tip, Tip Of The Day, vista, Workgroup

Shared Printer on Vista holding Jobs in Que

December 23, 2008 By Robert Owen

I had a customer computer start to die recently and we decided, since it was 8 years old, that rather than fix it we would replace it. So, we got a new PC and I set it up. Everything was a breeze with one exception. The old PC was windows XP Pro had an HP Laserjet 1020 printer attached to it and shared. The new PC is a Vista Ultimate machine and when setting that printer up to share again is when the problem hit. When I tried to test print to this printer from other machines on the network, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Support, Vista Quest Tagged With: print que, printer, vista

Error – A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded

August 22, 2008 By Robert Owen

Ok... You find your Windows computer needs some updates. So, you go to Windows Update and download the needed fixes. Windows goes to install them and fails immediately giving you this error: Error: A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded Here's what to do to solve the problem: Click "Start" then "Run" and type cmd to open a command window At the command prompt type regsvr32 wuapi.dll You should then receive the message that the DLL has been registered. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MicroSoft, Support Tagged With: Support, vista

Remote Desktop /console change in Vista SP1

April 16, 2008 By Robert Owen

A while back I blogged about Remote Desktop in Windows XP. Since the start of my Vista Quest I have continued to use the Vista remote desktop with great success. That is until I installed Services pack 1. Here lately I've been noticing some differences when I log into some servers I manage. Nothing drastic mind you but there were some things that were no longer the same. So I got to Googeling... I use the /console when logging in to these servers. For those who don't know the /console … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, MicroSoft, Vista Quest Tagged With: Compatibility, Console Switch, Desktop Xp, Interactive Session, Logging, Long Time, Physical Keyboard, Remote Desktop, Remote Server, Servers, Service Pack 1, Success, Terminal Service Client, vista, Windows Xp

Remote Desktop Slow in Vista

October 16, 2007 By Robert Owen

I am using my Vista Ultimate machine primarily now for day-to-day work.. And everything is running quite smoothly to be honest. No crashes, no freezes, no spyware.. Everything is great. I help manage SEVERAL servers across my WAN and use Remote Desktop to great effect. But, last week a new Server was added. I logged in with my trusty Remote desktop to start setting up an SFTP server. Only, this time everything was WAY WAY WAY Slow... I mean I was waiting a good thirty seconds between clicks. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MicroSoft, Site of the Week, Support, Vista Quest Tagged With: Amp, Auto Tuning, Bandwidth, Crashes, Gadgets, Google, MicroSoft, New Feature, Party Utilities, Registry Values, Remote Desktop, Servers, Sftp Server, Speed Tests, Tcp Ip Stack, Third Party, Thirty Seconds, Throughput, vista, Wan, Whim

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