Mar 11th, 2010
by Christian.
Last week one of my servers had an strange issue. After pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE to log on, the log on window turned almost completely black (as you can see in the screenshot).
Google gave me the answer, but I still have no idea how this could have happened.
Posted in: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
Mar 9th, 2010
by Christian.
As an system administrator, I know how difficult it can be to solve Windows Update errors. This is particularly the case with Windows Update, because Windows Update always returns generic errors. KB-articles will likely not help you, because these articles are written with theoretical knowledge, and are barely based on real-world scenarios.
Posted in: WSUS, Windows 2008, Windows 7.
Tagged: 80072ee2 · microsoft update · windows update
Mar 4th, 2010
by Christian.
After I used CCleaner, I was unable to download attachments with Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).
CCleaner normally only deletes unneccessary files and registry keys. However, in this case it seems that CCleaner has cleaned a little bit too much :)
The following error occured when I tried to download a file with Internet Explorer 8:
Unable to download attachment.zip from www.webaddress.com
Unable to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.
Posted in: Internet Explorer 8.
Tagged: add-on · ccleaner · ie8
Feb 24th, 2010
by Christian.
Since a week, all of a sudden, I had this very strange problem that I could not move email items from the message list pane to a directory in the left pane. I got this error:
“Can’t copy the items. An OLE registration error occurred. The program is not correctly installed. Run Setup again for the program”
Posted in: Office 2003, Office 2007, Outlook 2007, Windows XP.
Tagged: dllregisterserver · ole32.dll · Outlook 2007 · regsvr32
Feb 5th, 2010
by Christian.
After releasing some false negatives (blocked email on a antispam server, that shouldn’t be marked as spam), I received the following email message from our SCOM server (System Center Operations Manager)
Posted in: Exchange 2007.
Tagged: Exchange 2007 · SCOM