Windows 7 Desktop Icons Disappear
I had a few customers call up about icons on their desktop disappearing. At first i just thought it was some one playing a game. Then i found out that in fact it was real. After looking at the issue over 3 different pc’s with the same problem i found it was only network short […]
Adobe Reader X – An internal error occurred.
We had Adobe Reader X on a Windows Server 2012 Terminal server all of a sudden coming up with ‘An internal error occurred.’ After Some research Found that Disabling the Adobe Reader X sandbox protection resolved the error. Here is the registry fix to make the changes. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\FeatureLockDown] “bProtectedMode”=dword:00000000
GFI Max Automatically restart service
Here is how to set the GFI Max service to restart on failure. SC failure “Advanced Monitoring Agent” reset=86400 actions= restart/300/restart/300/run/300 SC failure “Advanced Monitoring Agent” command= “AgentFailed.bat” Create a batch file called AgentFailed.bat and put whatever you want it to do on the 3rd fail. Some ideas would be to make it restart, send […]
Restore Adobe PDF Printer
Please note that the Adobe PDF Printer functionality to create PDF files is only available with Adobe Acrobat (paid version), and not with Adobe Reader (free version). Manually install the PDF Printer Click Start > Control Panel > Devices and Printers Select Add a printer Select Add a local printer Check Use an existing port […]
How to brand MAV 6.2
Hey Guys, Since the introduction of MAV 6.2 they have taken away the ability for us to brand MAV. Here is a workaround I came up with as so many people have requested it. Please note that this modifies the resources of the files. Although changes no actual code, don’t expect it to be supported […]
TeamViewer Linux Integration (.tvc)
Here is a little tip on how to get .tvc files associated with TeamViewer under Linux (Debian/Ubuntu). So install TeamViewer 8 If you haven’t already. cd /tmp wget http://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.deb dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb Now to create the association. nano ~/.local/share/applications/takecontrol.desktop Paste in the following [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Take Control Comment=TeamViewer Remote Control Application Exec=teamviewer –desktop […]
mscorsvw.exe high CPU useage
After some .NET updates you may find mscorsvw.exe using up a lot of your CPU. David goes into more detail why this happens on his blog here – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidnotario/archive/2005/04/27/412838.aspx But here is my copy and paste solution. Let this complete and mscorsvw.exe should go away! cd /d “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319” ngen.exe executequeueditems if %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%==AMD64 ( cd /d […]
Varnishlog Error – _.vsm: No such file or directory
# /usr/bin/varnishlog Cannot open /usr/local/var/varnish/test-varnish/_.vsm: No such file or directory If you get this error chances are you have both a source and packaged based install. remove both of them. yum remove varnish Then go into your source directory make uninstall Then re-install varnish again from the repo yum install varnish
Install Varnish 3.0 with VSF (Varnish Security Firewall) on centos 6
Just finished setting up our cluster of varnish servers and its working nicely. Using lsyncd to replicate the varnish configs, but thats for another post. Here is a step by step on howto install varnish with VSF (Varnish Security Firewall) on centos 6. If have already installed varnish then be sure to uninstall it before […]
CleanupStartup
Here again with another script, this time to clean-up what runs on a computer. Can kill off start-up entries, services and tasks. Tasks only works from vista and above as I don’t have a XP machine to play around on. Anyways, just add to the array the names of the programs you want removed. Here […]
