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Windows 7 error 86

October 28, 2009 By Robert Owen

Windows 7 & Windows 2000  -  Error 86 when mapping drives. One of my upgrades this week to Windows 7 was from a Windows XP laptop. Following  the steps I outlined in my previous post the initial process was a breeze!  No problems at all!!  Simple, some would say,  and as everything else goes as soon as "they" said it was simple...  Something will break!  That's just how it is... If something seems easy, it will be easy!  Until you TELL someone it was easy, then all bets are off! In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MicroSoft, Support, Windows 7 Tagged With: Amp, Bing, double click network, Error, LAN Manager, local security, network password, password error, Security, Something, window scroll, Windows

Interesting Problem: Snipping tool is not working

January 2, 2009 By Robert Owen

I love the Vista snipping tool! I use it probably, every other day. But today I needed it and got this error: The Snipping Tool is not working on your computer right now. Restart your computer, and then try again. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator. Very odd. Of course I had about 12 tabs open in FireFox and three programs running so I resisted the urge to reboot and turned my attention to my friend Google. I ran across several blog posts about this very error. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Support, Vista Quest Tagged With: computer, diagnostic tool, Error, Firefox, Google, microsoft office, Reboot, Restart, System Administrator, Tool

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