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12 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Problem preventing Windows from checking the licence?

Problem preventing Windows from checking the licence?

One of our remote locations server running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard edition had a strange error last week. Upon logging in, the system gave this error:

A Problem is Preventing Windows from Accurately Checking the License for this Computer

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21 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Office Communications Server Front-End service terminated

Office Communications Server Front-End service terminated

We deployed Office Communications Server 2007 last year - a great comunications tool to have within your enterprise. Few weeks ago, Microsoft released update (KB974571) for Office Communicator as well as Windows Server 2003 which caused the OCS's front-end service to terminate and not start.Read More

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07 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Hardware Specs for Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Hardware Specs for Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

After my previous post about Windows 7, Quick Launch Menu and XP/Vista Compatibility Mode, I got couple of emails asking what type of hardware I am using and other s Read More

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25 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Windows 7, Quick Launch Menu and XP/Vista Compatibility Mode

Windows 7, Quick Launch Menu and XP/Vista Compatibility Mode

Over 9 years ago I was using Windows 2000 professional as my main desktop PC when a friend convinced me to try Windows XP Professional. I decided to give it a try and I was a fan instantly, huge improvement from Windows 2000 Pro. The marriage lasted until August 2009 when I decided to ride the waves Read More

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31 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Missing or corrupt C_437.NLS file

Missing or corrupt C_437.NLS file

A user brought in their laptop today with Windows XP Professional Operating system which had this error message:

'Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\C_437.NLS

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31 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

How to delete the Hiberfil.sys file?

How to delete the Hiberfil.sys file?

So, how do you delete the Hiberfil.sys file on Windows 2008 server and/or Windows Vista machine? Our Dell 745N server’s boot partition ran out of disk space, while troubleshooting as to what was taking up so much space, I found that hiberfil.sys file was taking up over 4 GB of spa Read More

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