The steps below are the ones I followed to distribute and configure Adobe Reader X in an enterprise environment Setup a distribution agreement for Adobe products http://www.adobe.com/mena_en/products/reader/distribution.html Download the latest Adobe Reader base release e.g. 10.1.0 as an msi file Download the latest Adobe Reader quarterly update e.g. AdbeRdrUpd1013.msp Download the Adobe Customization Wizard X http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4950 Place [...]
If you’ve had enough of the Java Update Available popup, you can remove it by setting the EnableJavaUpdate registry key to 0 and rebooting 32bit Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy 64bit Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy
If you need to install an update or some software, but are told you cannot because of a pending file rename, first of all reboot the PC or server. If this fails you can force the install by renaming the “PendingFileRenameOperations” registry key at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager. Just rename the key to something like ”PendingFileRenameOperationsOLD” and your update [...]
In IIS 6.0 I created an application pool for a new application and set the identity to a Windows domain account. When I tried to load the application I was greeted with “Service Unavailable”. The Windows system event log showed the two messages below: A failure was encountered while launching the process serving application pool ‘xxx’. The [...]
Out of the box the display resolution in the Windows 8 Developer Preview was 800 x 600 on my Dell Latitude D430. The maximum resolution offered by Windows was 1024 x 768. However, the native resolution of the D430 is 1280 x 800. In order to run Windows 8 at the native resolution of the [...]
After updating to Google Chrome 13 my browser was unusable. Every time I tried to load a page the page never loaded and I just got the message in the bottom left of the browser saying “waiting for cache”. Deleting the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default fixed the problem.
If you have a server that has Intel processors that support Turbo Boost and you’re using Windows Server 2008 R2 in the default, Balanced Power plan, you’re probably not getting the full power of your processors. The Processor Performance Boost Policy is a percentage value from 0 to 100. In the default Balanced power plan [...]
This post is about poor wireless n performance I experienced when using a Netgear DGN1000 Wireless ADSL modem router. I was connected to the router with an HP Pavilion DV6-3112SA laptop, which has a wireless adapter based on the Ralink RT3090 wireless chipset. This chipset supports wireless n and the router is described as supporting 802.11 b/g and [...]
I installed Windows Live Messenger 2011 on a new HP laptop, but found that Messenger hung after signing in. The problem is related to Internet Explorer (IE) 9′s hardware acceleration and the integrated graphics on the Core i3 CPU. The laptop has switchable graphics and when running on the AMD GPU Messenger doesn’t hang, but it does hang [...]
If you’ve installed service pack 1 for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 and you’re happy you won’t need to uninstall it, you can cleanup the service pack backup files by running the command below from an elevated command prompt. This uses the Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /spsuperseded The command [...]
