Windows could not start because of an error in the software

Issue

Windows could not start because of an error in the software

Cause
The prime reason for this error message to occur is that Hal.dll and Ntoskrnl.exe files mismatch.

Solution
To solve file mismatch issue, you need to follow the below steps:

• Boot the computer using Windows XP installation disc. To do so, first configure your system to start from CD or DVD drive.
• Press any key, when prompted for
• Start Recovery Console by pressing 'R' at 'Welcome to Setup' screen
• Select the Windows installation to be repaired
• Specify the root administrator password, when prompted for
• Run chkdsk, then
• Run bootcfg /rebuild command
• To add Windows installations to the Boot.ini file, you need to follow the on-screen instructions
• Exit the Recovery Console
• Execute fixboot command

If the error persists, reinstall OS and restore from backup or repair if allowed.

iOS 5 Software Update (Estimated Download Time 3 hours for 707 MB)

If download estimates more then 20 min cancel and restart....Once restarted my download finished in 7min.

This update contains over 200 new features, including the following:

• Notifications
• Swipe from the top of any screen to view notifications in one place with Notification Center
• New notifications appear briefly at the top of the screen
• View notifications from lock screen
• Slide the notification app icon to the right on the lock screen to go directly to the app
• iMessage
• Send and receive unlimited text, photo, and video messages with other iOS 5 users
• Track messages with delivery and read receipts
• Group messaging and secure encryption
• Works over cellular network and Wi-Fi*
• Newsstand
• Automatically organizes magazine and newspaper subscriptions on Home Screen
• Displays the cover of the latest issue
• Background downloads of new issues 
• Reminders for managing to do lists
• Syncs with iCloud, iCal and Outlook
• Location-based reminders when you leave or arrive at a location for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4
• Built-in support for Twitter
• Sign-in once in Settings and tweet directly from Camera, Photos, Maps, Safari and YouTube
• Add location to any tweet
• View twitter profile pictures and usernames in Contacts
• Camera improvements for devices with cameras
• Double click the home button when device is asleep to bring up a camera shortcut on iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation)
• Volume Up button to take a picture
• Optional grid lines to line up shots
• Pinch to zoom in the preview screen
• Swipe to camera roll from preview screen
• Tap and hold to lock focus and exposure, iPad 2 and iPod touch (4th generation) only support exposure lock

• Photo improvements for devices with cameras
• Crop and rotate
• Red eye removal
• One tap enhance
• Organize photos into albums
• Mail improvements
• Format text using bold, italic, or underlined fonts
• Indentation control
• Drag to rearrange names in address fields
• Flag messages
• Mass mark messages as flagged, read or unread
• Customize mail alert sounds
• S/MIME
• Calendar improvements
• Year view on iPad and new Week view for iPhone and iPod touch
• Tap to create an event
• View and add event attachments
• Game Center improvements
• Use personal photos for your Game Center account
• Compare your overall achievement scores with your friends
• Find new Game Center friends with friend recommendations and friends of friends
• Discover new games with custom game recommendations
• AirPlay Mirroring for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S
• Multitasking Gestures for iPad
• Use four or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen
• Swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar
• Swipe left or right to switch between apps

• On-device setup, activation and configuration with Setup Assistant
• Software updates available over the air without tethering
• iCloud support
• iTunes in the Cloud
• Photo Stream
• Documents in the Cloud
• Apps and Books automatic download and purchase history
• Backup
• Contacts, Calendar, and Mail
• Find My iPhone

• Redesigned Music app for iPad

• Hourly weather forecast
• Real-time stock quotes
• Wireless sync to iTunes
• Keyboard improvements
• Split keyboard for iPad
• Improved autocorrection accuracy
• Improved Chinese and Japanese input
• New Emoji keyboard
• Personal dictionary for autocorrection
• Optionally create keyboard short cuts for frequently used words
• Accessibility improvements

• Option to light LED flash on incoming calls and alerts for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4
• Custom vibration patterns for incoming calls on iPhone
• New interface for using iOS with mobility-impairment input devices
• Option to speak a selection of text
• Custom element labeling for VoiceOver

• Exchange ActiveSync improvements
• Wirelessly sync tasks
• Mark messages as flagged, read or unread
• Improved offline support
• Save a new contact from a GAL service
• More than 1,500 new developer APIs
• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:

• iPhone 4S
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad 2
• iPad
• iPod touch (4th generation)
• iPod touch (3rd generation)

* Normal carrier data rates may apply. Messages will be sent as SMS when iMessage is unavailable, carrier messaging fees apply.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:

List all sites in a SharePoint Site Collections

 1: Generate a list of all sites in a site collection

• Start at the root/top level site of your site collection
• Go to Site Settings – Site Actions (menu)  - Site Settings
• Modify all site settings
• Under the Site Collection Administration – Select “Site Hierarchy” ( http://site/_layouts/vsubwebs.aspx )

• Copy the list of urls for each subsite
• Paste into Excel (or similar)
• Remove unwanted columns (only one column containing site URLs should remain)
• Copy and paste / Save as a text document (each URL on a new line)

Note: To view a list of all sites, you must be logged in as a Site Collection Administrator.


Other Report Types:


WebViewAllFiles

WebViewAspNetMasterPages

WebViewAssignedTo

WebViewBrokenLinks

WebViewBrokenLinks

WebViewBrowserTypes

WebViewCategories

WebViewCheckoutStatus

WebViewComponentErrors

WebViewCSSLinks

WebViewDailyPageHits

WebViewDailySummary

WebViewFolders

WebViewGhostedPages

WebViewLinks

WebViewMasterPages

WebViewMonthlyPageHits

WebViewMonthlySummary

WebViewNavigation

WebViewOlderFiles

WebViewOsTypes

WebViewPage

WebViewPublishStatus

WebViewRecentlyAddedFiles

WebViewRecentlyChangedFiles

WebViewReferringDomains

WebViewReferringURLs

WebViewRemoteSite

WebViewReviewStatus

WebViewSearchStrings

WebViewSharedBorders

WebViewSiteSummary

WebViewSlowPages

WebViewThemes

WebViewUnlinkedFiles

WebViewUsageSummary

WebViewVisitingUsers

WebViewWeeklyPageHits

WebViewWeeklySummary

Enable Network Discovery

"Network discovery requires that the DNS Client, Function Discovery Resource Publication, SSDP Discovery, and UPnP Device Host"

 

 

Enabling and starting these services did the trick and now Network Discovery is enabled and I can see the server.

 

•Function Discovery Resource Publication


•SSDP Discovery


•UPnP Device Host

 

 

 

 

Reset/restore xp or Vista Permissions

To restore your operating system to the original installation default security settings, follow these steps:

• Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
• In Windows XP, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
• secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose
• In Windows Vista, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
• secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose
• You receive a "Task is completed" message and a warning message that something could not be done. You can safely ignore this message. For more information about this message, see the %windir%\Security\Logs\Scesrv.log file.

Reclaiming disk space from “system volume information”

1. To see the space allocated and used for SVI:

• Open Command Prompt with “Run as Administrator” option
• Type in: vssadmin list shadowstorage
• You will see Used Space, Allocated Space and Maximum Space for SVI

2. To see the restore information stored therein:

• Use in the same console command: vssadmin list shadows

3. To resize the maximum allocated space:

• Type in command: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=[here add the drive letter]: /For=[here add the drive letter]: /Maxsize=[here add the maximum size]
• E.g., vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=C: /For=C: /Maxsize=4GB
• You will see a prompt confirming resize done
• You can check the status again using the command discussed in point 1 above

4. Just to get rid of the space already consumed, but sticking to the same size of max-size as before:

• Do actions as per point 3 to set the max-size t, say, 1GB
• If you check now, most likely you’ll see that used space is now 0KB
• Do the resize again and set it back to what it was before
• Check your disk space availability in Windows Explorer, you should see the reclaim is done!

It is not recommended to turn off Volume Shadow Copy. However, if you still want to disable Volume shadow copy than follow the steps as below:

1. Click on Start, type services and press enter.
2. Locate the service "Volume Shadow Copy" and right click and click "Stop".
3. Close Services windows.

The DNS server was unable to open zone Event ID: 4007

Event ID: 4007

If the old zone cannot open it will not show in Server Manager, to remove it:
1) Open Regedit via Start - Run - type Regedit and click ok
2) Browse to HKLM_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DNS Server\Zones)
3) Export and then delete the zones that are no longer needed

SQL Server Configuration Manager – Cannot connect to WMI provider

SQL Server Configuration Manager – Cannot connect to WMI provider – Invalid class [0x80041010]

When I am trying to connect to my SQL Server 2008 box using SQL Server Configuration Manager today, the following error dialog pops up…

Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005 and later servers with SQL Server Configuration Manager. Invalid class [0x80041010]





>> Open an elevated Command Prompt, and type the following…

mofcomp.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Shared\sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof"

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: i8042prt

The Fix that Worked For Me!
1.Go to Start > Run and put regedit.exe and click Ok
2.Navigator to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters in Registry Editor
3.Add a new REG_DWORD "Headless " and set the value to 1
4.Reboot the server.

Sharepoint 2007 This Page has been modified since you opened it

Error:
This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again. Refresh page.

Possible Solution:
1. Check MOSS and WSS Versions on all web and application servers.
2. Locate OWSSVR.DLL and Microsoft.sharepoint.portal.dll at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\ISAPI
3. Compare at Microsofts Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx.
4. The update to remedy this bug is (12.0.6545.5001).
5. If not updated update all web and application servers.

Server 2008 Issues, with .Net Framework and Windows Update

Using the .NET Framework cleanup tool to completely uninstall the previous 2.0 version that you have on your machine. It can be accessed at http://files.youdownload.com/-NET-Framework-Cleanup-Tool-26-11-2008-download-165a16a2fc.htm

Then download/install the full .NET Framework 3.5 Redist from here http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/0/f/60fc5854-3cb8-4892-b6db-bd4f42510f28/dotnetfx35.exe. This should hopefully solve your problem.