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After you have disabled the Parallel Port in your BIOS, the following error may occur every time you start Windows.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 8/13/2009
Time: 9:15:47 AM
User: N/A
Computer: computername
Description:
The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
As an administrator, there may come a time that you have to upgrade the bios. A new firmware may fix some bugs and may have new functionality. It also may be a required before you can request support from the manufacturer.
In all these cases, the first step to take is to determine the current BIOS version / firmware version. Yes: you can determine the firmware version by rebooting the computer and going into the BIOS, but in production environments this is often not recommended. :-)
Especially for these situations, you can view the BIOS version while running Windows. There are two easy ways to determine your current firmware version.
Windows Update error 0×0080072ee2 is a very general error code and may cause much frustration. With this post I’m trying to help you to solve error 0×80072ee2 :) . After each step, try Windows Update to determine whether the issue is resolved
As a system administrator, I’ve been in many situations that I needed to write down the MAC-address of a remote PC. For example to boot the PC with Wake-On-LAN in the near future.
There are several ways to get the MAC address of a computer. Below are the two methods I mostly use. There are probably many more.
I recently had problems with the Automatic Updates on a Windows 2003 server (the problem described in this article also applies to Windows XP).
I was running WSUS in my domain, but the updates didn’t arrive. A quick investigation resulted in A LOT OF ERRORS in the event viewer. For a couple of days, the following error had returned every one or two minutes or so!