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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]