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Symptom: When installing VMware 4.5.1, my system has hung during installing VMware Authorization service. No way but to reset the system. But, this leads to failure of uninstallation. If you try a clean install of 4.0.x it works fine on the same system. The fix appears to be that you must have a swap file […]

To open computer management directly to another machine, use: compmgmt.msc /computer:xxxx

Go to Control panel Administrative tools, local security policy. then goto local policies —> security options. Then change the option for “Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile”

Microsoft updated some Windows Support Tools in XP SP2. The updated tools include bitsadmin.exe extract.exe httpcfg.exe iadstools.dll ipseccmd.exe netdom.exe replmon.exe You can download the updated XP support tools at Link

XP SP2 greatly improves XP’s network and memory protection and email handling and contains a new firewall called Windows Firewall. Windows Firewall is enabled by default; however, if an application tries to access a blocked port, the firewall lets the user opt to grant the application access to that port. XP SP2 also includes a […]

A Microsoft source answers as follows: “We strongly recommend that users run only one host firewall on their system. Yes, the XP SP2 Windows Firewall can coexist with third-party firewalls, but multiple firewalls don’t make you safer. Running multiple firewalls just means you have to configure the settings in multiple places (e.g., opening ports for […]

The time errors might be occurring because the domain controller (DC) isn’t configured with an external time source. You can check the DC’s time-forwarding status by running the command net time /querysntp If the DC isn’t set to query an external Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) server or the configured server isn’t available, you can […]

This error occurs when Windows Update can’t download and install the Windows Update ActiveX component. This problem sometimes occurs when a firewall blocks the download of the component. If you’ve verified that your firewall isn’t causing the error, a possible solution for the problem is to add the following sites to the Microsoft Internet Explorer […]

Errors like “document.SelfHostedImage is null or not and object” are refering to the script on the web page that does not conform precisely with what IE expects. To avoid such messages (which don’t do anything useful for you since you could not in any case edit the web page’s script), go to Tools menu, Internet […]