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HOW TO give the w32Time account permissions to the config key in registry editor

Submitted by Mike on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 19:27

One of my users was trying to change one of the DWORD values in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config

Unfortunately they were getting the good old “Access Denied” message. When I took a look at it, I realized the only user who had permission to edit the key was a user or account named W32TIME. It seemed pretty straight forward. So I went up one key, and copied the permissions down. Then I went in and added the W32Time account. Well, I tried to at least.

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Find who has files open in Windows Server 2008

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 12:56

I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has become accustomed to opening up Computer Management on a server, and looking in the shared folders in order to find out who has a file open. Well, that was Windows Server 2003. Now that we have Windows Server 2008, it’s just a little bit different.

Here’s how you do it.

In Server Manager, expand Roles, then expand File Services, and click on “Share and Storage Management”.

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Forcing Windows 7 Adoption

Submitted by Mike on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 21:01

image I downloaded the Windows 7 beta pretty shortly after it was available. I quickly took advantage of some free disk space on my drive, shrunk my partition, and set up dual boot with Windows Vista.

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How to Resize (Shrink) your Partition in Vista

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 17:52

Let me guess, you’ve downloaded your copy of Windows 7, and you want to dual boot. Maybe you’ve heard that you can re-claim unused space on your hard drive, and you want to know how. Heck, maybe you want to see what the big deal is with Windows 64 bit.Well never fear, here’s a quick guide on how to reclaim some unused space to use for a shiny new partition.

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Server 2008: The Installer has insufficient Privileges to modify this file

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 22:01

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Sometimes the easiest things can be so difficult. I was just trying to install a simple update package, "Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1" to be exact. The installer returns the error "The Installer has insufficient privileges to modify this file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\RelNotes.htm".

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How to Change your modem's init strings in Windows Vista

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 16:52

imageI'm going to get a little old school on you here today. Remember those crazy modem init strings? I bet you thought we were all done with those. Well, with Smart Phones that act like blue tooth modems, everything old is new again.

The problem that I ran into was that I had to specify my access point in the init string. Looking at the properties of the modem, the box where you enter the init string isn't available. Well, here's how you change it.

Step 1:

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The necessary services are disabled or unavailable. Error 0x80246007

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 15:56

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There are two errors associated with this:

"The necessary services are disabled or unavailable. Error 0x80246007"

"The necessary services are disabled or unavailable. Error 0x80246008"

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Documentation? What good is that?

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 13:29

OldBooksGood documentation is really nice to have. I did a Server Migration, or transition this last Friday (the 14th). We went from Server 2003 to Server 2008, and now I'm realizing that my documentation was a little out of date.

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Kill an unresponsive app in Windows.

Submitted by Art on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 11:34

Recently I ran across this version of xkill for Windows. xkill is a fast and very easy to use Linux program that will let you kill any misbehaving program with just a couple of mouse clicks.

When you usually try to do this with Windows, you’ll probably be going to the Task Manager and killing it from there. But sometimes the program won’t close right away and you’ll need to wait a minute or two for it to finally disappear.

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Recording Skype Calls in Windows Vista for Free

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 06:09

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Ah, the dream of recording Skype calls. Up until yesterday, I just couldn’t get this seemingly simple task to work. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get it all working, but I just couldn’t seem to do it.

When Art and I record our podcast, Art records his side of the conversation, and I record my side of the conversation. Then I get an MP3 of my side of the conversation to him, and he merges it.

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