Category Archives: Windows
Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error 0×80300001
After installing drivers during a Windows-installation you might get this error message when you select a drive to install it on “windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error 0×80300001″ This is another (strange) way for Windows to … Continue reading
Getting Windows 2008 server uptime via the command line
A simple one liner to get hold of Windows 2008 server uptime: systeminfo | find "System Boot Time"
Two Crucial C300 in RAID0 on a M4A87TD motherboard causes BSOD`s, hangs in Win7
So i have tried to use Two Crucial C300 in RAID0 on a M4A87TD motherboard for a while now. After a while i started experiencing BSOD`s, hangs, crashes, freezes etc. I tried to debug -everything- until i came over multiple complaints … Continue reading
Acer machine with Windows XP giving reboot after booting
Today i had a problem with a Acer machine that kept rebooting just after the machine had started up Windows, typically a couple of seconds after everything was loaded. After managing to disable auto-reboot upon crash, i got a hold … Continue reading
Fix: Windows won`t download Windows Update updates
I have noticed some Windows machines refusing to download Windows Update packages and simply failing the download with little to no information about why. I tricks i found that works for me is to first stop WuAuServ: net stop WuAuServ … Continue reading
Windows 7 installation gives 0×80300001 error
This error appears when you need to install extra drivers during Windows installation, and that “very logic error” simply says that you must re-insert the Windows CD/DVD before installing it to disk. I managed to digg up the following how-to: … Continue reading
6 ways to speed up Windows 7
Is your Windows 7 installation slow? Here are some tips on how to improve the performance easily! 1) Make sure you have enough RAM on your machine, at least 2 GB Windows and all applications you use each need their … Continue reading
Getting Windows Vista/2008 to interact with older Samba installations
Newer versions of Windows have implemented a newer version of MS-LAN Manager communication, this is not supported by older Samba installations (below 3.2.1). So in order to fix this, you have to make your Windows client keep to the older … Continue reading
Shutting down Windows 2003 / 2008 server with virsh shutdown
virsh shutdown can be compared to pushing the power button on a server, that will normally tell the OS to shut down gracefully. Microsoft on the other hand looks on that as a security issue and have per default disabled … Continue reading