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Exceeded Profile Storage Space

24 Jul

When trying to logoff or reboot Windows XP you receive “Exceeded Profile Storage Space”.

First trying cleaning out your temp files with a program like CCleaner.

If that doesn’t work open notepad and paste the following into it and save as fixprofilepolicy.reg


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"EnableProfileQuota"=-
"ProfileQuotaMessage"=-
"MaxProfileSize"=-
"IncludeRegInProQuota"=-
"WarnUser"=-
"WarnUserTimeout"=-

When doing Save As, choose file type "all", and save as fixprofilepolicy.reg then double click on the file.


 
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Shutdown a computer remotely

09 Jul

To shutdown a remote computer via command line you will need to be logged in as a user that has admin rights on the remote computer.

Microsoft describes the use of the shutdown command here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317371.

If you follow one of their examples:

shutdown \\support /r


and you get the help page for the shutdown command,

Try this instead

call shutdown /r /f /m \\remotecomputer


 
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IIS Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred

07 Jul

Port 80 already in use? But how you ask. If you receive “Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred” when trying to start your default website in IIS try starting the website on a different port to see if the error occurs again. Try 8080. If it does then you most likely have another process running on port 80.

Are you running Skype? If so open Skype, go to File-> Options -> Connection
Uncheck Use Port 80 as an alternative for incoming connections.

Then start IIS on port 80.


 
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Windows hangs at shutdown – installing updates x of x

07 Jul

Problem
Initially when shutting down a Windows XP SP3 machine it would freeze on “Saving Settings…” or on “Windows is Shutting Down…”. I didn’t know it was an issue with corrupt updates trying to install until I ran uphclean.exe. A Microsoft utility, User Profile Hive Cleanup

After installing this and running the cleaner from C:\program files\uphclean\uphclean.exe and attempting to shutdown via start > shutdown the machine appeared to hang with the message “Installing Updates 1 of 13″.

Fix
1. Attempt to stop the Windows Update service

net stop wuauserv


If this fails boot to safe mode and follow the rest of the steps

2. Purge the Windows Update cache

cd /d %windir%
rd /s SoftwareDistribution

3. Shutdown successfully. Next reboot you can re download the failed updates.


 
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Double clicking xls files won’t open in excel

07 Jul

Problem
You can have Excel open and go to File > Open and then select and xls file and it will open, but when you double click on an xls file in windows explorer it brings up and empty Excel window.

The Fix
First open Excel and go to Tools > Options and then to the General tab. Make sure that “Ignore other applications” is NOT checked.

Second close Excel and go to the windows start menu and type excel.exe /regserver and hit enter. (There is a space between .exe and /regserver)


 
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