Archive for January, 2008
How do you tell the difference between Checked Build Windows or sometime called Debug Build and Free Build or commonly known as Retail Build? Here’s the distinction of the two:
The checked build (or debug build)
The purpose of the checked build of Microsoft Windows is to make identifying and diagnosing operating-system-level problems easier. The checked build […]
January 26th, 2008 | Posted in Windows Troubleshooting | No Comments
A great weblog on Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting by hardcores of Microsoft’s CPR team. Escalation Engineers from Microsoft’s Platform Critical Problem Resolution (CPR) team has been so kind enough to share their knowledge on advance debugging.
There are a lot of debugging techniques discuss here along with detail info up to the very detail […]
January 26th, 2008 | Posted in Windows Troubleshooting | No Comments
I have not seen, what I can consider a good design of notebook from DELL, until I had the chance to hold one of Dell new XPS notebook. I’m referring to DELL XPS M1330, cause this model is what was displayed during their road-tour recently. This XPS M1330 is so slim, elegant, extremely light and […]
January 10th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets | 4 Comments
Just received email from Microsoft Learning that the 2 exams supporting upgrade path to Windows Server 2003 will retire on March 31, 2008. So, for those certified MCSE on Windows 2000 should take the 2 upgrade exams before it’s too late:
Exam 70-292 (Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified […]
January 10th, 2008 | Posted in Windows Troubleshooting | No Comments
Another real-life experience when I encountered missing GC due to corrupt DC. This was suspected to happen because before the corrupt DC went offline, replication to other GC has not taken place, and this has caused Exchange Server could not find any valid GC (…yes, Exchange Server 2000 involved in this scenario). Here’s what can […]
January 9th, 2008 | Posted in Windows Troubleshooting | No Comments
The world have to see this. I hope this commercial could bring some sense of love to the world. Thanks to Khairul for sharing…
In case the object above cannot be loaded, you can always follow the link:
Most Intense Commercial Ever
and this one:
I Want More Time
January 4th, 2008 | Posted in Hola Mundo | 2 Comments
This I’ve got to share… During working with one of Malaysia’s biggest telecommunication company, I came across this cool tool called BGInfo. What this tool does is it displays system information on desktop’s background about information that may need you to extract say from SystemInfo or MSINFO32; info including Hostname, boot time info, CPU, TCP/IP […]
January 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Windows Troubleshooting | 1 Comment
Here’s how you can determine your server’s uptime, and if there’s an occurrence of improper shutdown you can always use either “Uptime” or “Systeminfo” from your command prompt.
To use Uptime, the most common option you can use is by issuing “uptime /s” to display the system events. Here it’ll list down when you boot up […]
January 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Windows Troubleshooting | No Comments
I have come across this problem where IE would not set as default browser even after the option “Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser” from Tools > Internet Options > Programs is turned ON. This happen after installing Avant browser.
So, if you should experience the same, just issue […]
January 1st, 2008 | Posted in Windows Troubleshooting | No Comments