Posts Tagged ‘windows’

Remote Assistance via Command Line in Windows 7

I use to offer remote assistance using a shortcut in XP.  That no longer works with Windows 7.  Instead the easiest way I’ve found is to use the command line. To run Remote Assistance Windows 7 uses a program called MSRA.exe.  MSRA.exe can be run from the command line.  So the easiest way to offer [...]

Locations of Folder Redirection Related Registry Keys.

I had never had this happen before, but we could not change the location of a redirected My Documents folder after setting up a client with a new server. I’m not sure we ever figured out the whys of it, any ideas? However we did figure out a work around. For users who existed before [...]

Problems with Windows Updates and XP SP3

I started having problems with Windows Updates after installing XP Service Pack 3.  The install of the updates would fail.  After it failed Windows would ask me to install them during shutdown but that didn’t work either. I installed SP3 right after it came out.  Soon there after Microsoft pulled it and released it again [...]

Slipstream XP SP3

Paul Thurrott slipstreams XP Service Pack 3 for us: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/xpsp3_slipstream.asp Thanks Paul. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fblog.thenitetechs.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fslipstream-xp-sp3%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Slipstream+XP+SP3′; addthis_pub = ”; Technorati Tags: slipstream, sp3, windows, xp