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The Windows Event Viewer is one of your best friends when it comes to troubleshooting problems in Windows 10 and earlier. The event viewer gives you an overview of all events that happened on your system. Not only errors or warnings but also information. Tracing all these kind of events can often help you solve …
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A new Windows 10 installation and immediately I got spammed with event 8200 / event ID 8200 – License acquisition failure details. hr=0x80072EE7 in my event log: Log Name: Application Source: Security-SPP Event ID: 8200 Level: Error Description: License acquisition failure details. hr=0x80072EE7 Is this a normal error that you can safely ignore? In most …
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After upgrading to Excel 2007 or Excel 2010, an error specifying the file you are trying to open .xlsx is in a different format than specified by the file extension when you try to open an excel document: The file you are trying to open .xlsx is in a different format than specified by the …
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You may get the Error Connecting Network Registry dialog. This is because the Remote Registry service is stopped by default. The startup type is Manual. This setting leads to the following error when you try to connect to the registry from another computer on the network: Error Connecting Network Registry Unable to connect to computerX …
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In many of my blog posts (also at other websites) you’re instructed to run programs or applications as an administrator. This hint is crucial when trying to solve an issue, because it gives you additional permissions to complete the actual task. The so-called User Account Control. This blog post shows you how to run most …