Windows

Reaching a Windows VM's VNC console on XenServer through an SSH tunnel to the VNC port reported by xenstore.

Fixing Windows VMs on Hyper-V Server 2012 that had a three-day time offset by toggling Time Synchronization in Integration Services.

archived Sep 15, 2012 2 min Windows Virtualization

On CentOS, installing the cifs-utils package fixes the CIFS VFS cifs_mount failed error with return code -22 when mounting a Windows share.

archived Jun 17, 2012 1 min Linux Windows

Opening a Windows .DMP crash dump in WinDbg and running .symfix, .reload and !analyze -v to find the crash cause.

Sep 3, 2011 1 min Windows

Connecting PuTTY to an Amazon EC2 CentOS instance by converting the .pem key to a .ppk with PuTTYgen.

archived Jun 12, 2011 1 min Linux Windows

First benchmark of a Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB installed alongside Windows 7 SP1, leaving 91GB free.

archived Jun 3, 2011 1 min Hardware Windows

Fixing a reboot loop after installing the Intel HD graphics driver on Windows 7 by installing Service Pack 1 first.

archived May 29, 2011 1 min Windows Hardware

The author's reasons for moving an old Acer laptop to Ubuntu 10.10 for everyday use while keeping Windows for gaming.

archived Apr 16, 2011 2 min Linux Windows

Fixing a Windows Server 2008 R2 bootloader that was installed on a 1 TB data drive, using EasyBCD's Change boot drive option.

archived Dec 12, 2010 1 min Windows

Using Microsoft Fix it 50202 to reset Windows Update components when updates fail with error 80073712.

archived Aug 27, 2010 1 min Windows