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Archive for the Windows 2008 Category

08.4.2009

Tuneup registry cleaner delete fonts making everything garbled

Running a registry clean using tune-up on a Windows 2008 server detected Missing fonts. Selecting to clean up the missing entries caused all the fonts to display as wingdings or other characters, making the system unuseable.
We had a similar issue with a different registry cleaner on a Windows 2003 server recently also.
I re-enstated the fonts [...]

07.28.2009

Thumbnails not showing in explorer in Windows Vista or 2008 server

If you are having and issue in that you are only seeing icons instead of thumbnail pictures in windows explorer, go to Organize -> Folder and Search Options

Go to the view tab and remove the check box for Always show icons, never thumbnails.

07.21.2009

Windows 2008 server missing MDB Access ODBC drivers to create system DSN

In migrating a website which used an access MDB ODBC driver to link to a database from a Windows 2003 server to a Windows 2008 64-bit operating system, I found when I went to create the ODBC driver for the database,
ODBC Driver from Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Data Source (ODBC), I could only [...]

07.21.2009

Turn User Account Control UAC on or off

User Account Control (UAC) can help you prevent unauthorized changes to your computer. It works by prompting you for permission when a task requires administrative rights, such as installing software or changing settings that affect other users. I just find this agravating and turn it off every time. If I’ve asked the computer to do [...]

07.9.2009

Windows 2008 and Vista Service pack 2 SP2 is available to download

Go to this Microsoft page to download the 32 bit version of the service pack.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a4dd31d5-f907-4406-9012-a5c3199ea2b3&displaylang=en
For the 64-bit version use this download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=656C9D4A-55EC-4972-A0D7-B1A6FEDF51A7&displaylang=en

02.2.2009

Event log message TermDD: The RDP protocol component “DATA ENCRYPTION” detected an error in the protocol stream and has disconnected the client on windows 2008 server connecting from XP/older thin client

After installing Windows 2008 servers as my terminal server I found that my old VXL Itona thin client would not connect giving the message “Connection reset by peer” . You will likely experience the same problem if you’re running an older RDP 5.1 client on Windows XP or Windows 2003.
The reason is that when installing [...]