Archive for January, 2009
System restore from the recovery console due to a Mup.sys hang.
Jan 27th
I came into the office this morning and was told that a production machine running XP SP3 is failing to boot. It also can not get to safe mode and is bombing out at mup.sys. After Googling the hell out of it I discovered that lot’s of people have the same issue or at least some sort of version of it. I tried all the tricks I had up my sleeve and then I tried a suggestion that I found. It was to use the Recovery console to kind of run a system restore. It actually only restores the registry hive from the check point you want. And it worked beautifully! Here are the instructions to try it for yourself.
Windows Mobile 6.1 will not send email. SMTP Issues?
Jan 23rd
I recently ditched my Dopod c730 for the HTC Fuze (AKA Raphael AKA Touch Pro Minus the Front Camera). I copped this guy from ATT and got my wife The HTC Diamond from Sprint. (More on this later…)
So I have been loving the new device in all its shinny shinny glory. I have beaten Teeter already and have made use of the Fuze’s functions to the best of my ability. When the device stopped sending ANY emails I was at a loss.
You see if my device does not send emails it really is more of a problem than anything else. Messages come in and I reply and then my message hangs out in my outbox indefinitely. NOT COOL. So now I have to call or text the person and first explain why I am not replying via email…
I hard resetted the device on the fly pulled my data back from my exchange server and was golden for another few days… When it happened again I was beyond myself.
I went’a Googling and surprise surprise other people were having the same damn issue! And Microsoft has released a patch in the form of a MSI or CAB file which you can grab here. I installed it, my device rebooted and all my messages flew out of the inbox.
I hate problems… But I love finding the solution!
Stay tuned for Diamond and Fuze applications, tricks and downloads coming soon. Anyone else have one of these guys? What have you loaded on it? Are you loving TouchFlo3D?
_TheDiamondAdmiN_
Windows Tip: Access The Windows Security Window In a Remote Desktop Connection (Control-Alt-Delete Doesn’t Work)
Jan 22nd
I get asked all the time how the hell do I bring up the security box (control + alt + delete) in a remote desktop session and here is the answer:
I tested it and it works beautifully on two Windows XP machines, 1 2003 server but on remoting in (What I can’t make up words??) to my Windows XP Pro SP2 Laptop it only brought up the task manager.
And for those of you that don’t know Control + Shift + Escape opens you directly to the task manager. And you can alt + tab through tabs on your remote desktop if it is opened full screen.
Got some good shortcuts for us? Tips at askTheAdmin dot com! I am off to my data center today. Should be interesting as we prepare for impending doom upcoming upgrades.
_TheShortcutingAdmiN_
Is there an easy way to copy a file or folder path in Vista?
Jan 22nd
Brought Back Up Top By Popular Demand…
Have you ever wanted to copy the path of a file located deep in your hard drive’s under belly (that you call a hard drive structure)? We are pretty sure you have one time or another, seeming that you are here at AskTheAdmin.com reading this article…
We previously covered how to copy a full error message to the clipboard to be googled here. That made your life easier, Right? So here is another goodie for you guys and girls running Vista.
Their are lots of reasons you could have wanted to copy that path. Looking to send the path on to share a folder or file, need to pop the full path into another application or simply for documentation purposes. No matter what you tried to use it for you know its a pain in the ass to:
- Launch Explorer
- Navigate to the directory
- Then to the file
- Select the contents of the address bar
- Copy the path
- Paste it in Notepad
- Then add the filename to the end of the path.
Now that’s just too many steps for something that should be simple.
Fortunately, the boys in Redmond stepped up with Windows Vista. You no longer have to jump through hoops just to copy the path to that file. [TechRepublic]
When you do this, the path to the file or folder you selected is copied to the Windows Clipboard. Then you can simply paste it anywhere your copy/pasting heart desires…
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