Posted in Windows XP on August 12th, 2008 No Comments »
When installing some software, I got the error:
This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator.
Make sure that windows installer service is running. Also, there are local security policy settings and registry keys that can prevent you from running MSI files. This was not problem here. All I had […]
Posted in Windows XP on March 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Wow, so this one stumped me. If you have two Word 2007 Windows open at the same time, when you switch from one to the other, either by alt+tab or by viewing them side by side and clicking one then the other and you get the hourglass, then this might solve your problem.
My clients […]
Posted in Windows XP on December 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Have you seen this?
My original solution was to extend the amount of time between ‘Restart Later’ nags. Of course now only the Administrator can use ‘Restart Later’.
The solution now is two-fold. I’m setting the updates to download and install automatically in the middle of the night. If the user shuts off the […]
Posted in Disk Images, Windows XP on July 6th, 2007 No Comments »
I made an ISO of my Windows 98 Boot CD. I needed it yesterday, and I couldn’t find it online anywhere. Get Windows 98 Boot CD Here!.
I used Alex Feinman’s ISO Recorder to create the image. You could probably use any tool to burn it, but Alex’s is pretty awesome. It […]
Posted in Windows Server 2003, Windows XP on March 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
The problem: NT AUTHORITY will shutdown your computer in one minute, because services.exe has crashed.
You can halt the shutdown, if you are an administrator, by clicking Start/Run, and typing ’shutdown -a’, but the computer is basically hosed at this point and won’t let you do anything anyway.
If you check the event viewer, you’ll see events […]