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One of the main reasons I decided I would buy the MacBook Air recently was that I knew I would be able to run Windows on it, either in a bootable install or in a virtual machine. In fact there is really one main app that I use all the time on Windows that I […]
Scott Hanselman posted a great list of items to look at and check into when you’re using virtual machines with Virtual PC (or server) and need to ensure good performance. It’s not automagical to have things work at best performance, so getting educated and knowing what to do and when is important.
His list is here:
VM […]
When you install a 32-bit application on a computer that is running a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows Server 2003, you may find that the 32-bit application is not initialized and installed correctly for a new user who logs on to the computer.
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended […]
After you run a program for approximately eight hours on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1)-based computer, the program may stop responding and you may receive an error message that is similar to one of the following error messages.
When you use a roaming profile to log on to your wireless network from your Windows XP-based computer, you may receive the following error message:
Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the […]
When you try to log on to a computer that is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), you may receive the following error message:
Microsoft knows about a potential file corruption problem on NTFS file system volumes in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This problem may occur during extensive stress test scenarios on the storage stack. Microsoft regularly runs stress tests on the NTFS storage stack. These stress tests include scenarios that are very far outside […]
When you use Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 or Microsoft FrontPage 2002 to reverse publish from a remote Web site to a local Web site, you receive one of the following error messages.
Client computers do not use the Windows Indexing Service when the computers search for a network-shared file on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer.
Note: The client computers are running Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
On a computer that is running Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003, you may experience any one of the following symptoms:
*** STOP: 0×00000020
Not all “Stop 0×00000020″ errors are caused by the problem that is described in this article.
On a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer, a memory leak may occur in the Local Security Authentication Server process (Lsass.exe). In this scenario, Windows Server 2003 may become slow and unresponsive until you restart the computer.
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows Server 2003. For more information, click the following […]
When you send a print job to a network print server from a computer that is running Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003, nothing is printed. Additionally, an error message that is similar to the following is logged in the System event log:
CAUSE
This problem is caused by a kernel-mode exception in the Tcpip.sys file that can occur in scenarios that use IPsec tunnel mode.
If you log off a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer or a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer, you experience the following symptoms:
When a fatal system error occurs on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a crash dump file is not generated as you expect. This symptom occurs when the following conditions are true:
If you use the Hardware Update Wizard in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to try to update the USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller (Usbehci.sys) drivers, the following hardware may stop responding:
If you try to log on to a computer by using your domain account, the domain controller stops responding. Additionally, you cannot access your folder by using the universal naming convention (UNC) network path, and you receive the following error message:
A client application is running the Telnet.exe file to connect to a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer. When you press function (F1-F12) keys or the ESC key on the client computer, the Windows Server 2003-based computer does not receive these keys.
A Microsoft Windows Server 2003 certification authority can send e-mail messages to users, to administrators, and to certificate managers about operations on the certification authority. However, after you configure the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) exit module to send these notifications on a certification authority server that is running Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, the […]