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alt f4 on surface pro with type keyboard 2

Mar

10

2014

I couldn’t get alt f4 working on any of my apps on my new microsoft surface pro with type keyboard 2. It ended up being that my function lock was set! I had to unlock that via: function + caps lock (Thanks rsutoratosu on Anandtech). And now ALT F4 works, time to go kill some ...

How To Install Windows 7 from a USB Key with ISO links!

Oct

18

2012

I’ve been reading a few methods to install Windows 7 from an ISO to a jump drive, or DVD. The best method to do it from a Windows computer is to obtain Microsoft’s own software for the task : http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe Install that, and point it to the jump drive you want to use (it will ...

Temporary profile creates in Windows 7

Sep

10

2012

I had a user who logs in with a domain account and creates a temporary directory every time he logs in. This is what I did that fixed it : 1. Log on to the system by using an administrative user account other than the user account that is experiencing the problem. 2. Back up ...

Large ntuser.dat files in server 2003 – HP driver issue

May

10

2012

Originally our terminal service server ran out of space, wondering why, we went to investigate and saw that ntuser.dat files were about 400MB or more. We also noted that new users logging in were taking 15-20 minutes to actually load into the terminal service the first time. What we eventually found out was that the ...

Getting Panasonic CF-53 USB3.0 Drivers to load into WinPE/Landesk

Mar

28

2012

This one was a headache! I got all drivers loaded properly for Panasonic CF-53 in Windows 7, except one unknown device, which was actually a USB 3.0 Hub driver. It would not load the traditional way, so what I ended up doing was taking the drivers, and putting them on the image itself under C:\windows\inf ...

Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 ACPI\MAT0021 driver 2

Feb

21

2012

We are getting in some new CF-53 – Standard laptops. My task is to find some drivers that are missing. One was ACPI\MAT0021 The driver is for the Panasonic Misc. You can get it from Panasonic’s website, or you can pull it from here (this one is for windows 7 32bit sp1): http://www.uploadland.com/?d=4F43AEA31 If you ...

Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 ACPI\MAT0019 driver 8

Feb

21

2012

We are getting in some new CF-53 – Standard laptops. My task is to find some drivers that are missing. One was ACPI\MAT0019 The driver is for the hot key’s. You can get it from Panasonic’s website, or you can pull it from here (this one is for windows 7 32bit sp1) : http://www.uploadland.com/?d=4F43AE1D1 If ...

How to burn dmg in windows 7 4

Nov

25

2011

I got a 2006 Macbook Pro, which had 0’d out hard drive. So I wanted to get OS X loaded on to it. I found a dmg file that had OS X 10.6. Doing a quick Google search, I figured out I can easily burn the dmg file to be bootable. What you need first ...

Code 12: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use – PC770 verizon air card

Sep

21

2011

I had an E6400 Dell with an issue where his Verizon air card (PC770) would not connect up every time. It would say device unknown. I looked at device manager, and it showed the NEC driver as have an error code of “Code 12: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use”. ...

Fresh AHCI install vs AHCI registry tweak

Sep

1

2011

When I was running my AHCI vs ATA tests, I thought it would be a perfect time to see if a fresh install (factory image from dell) of AHCI is better then a registry tweak AHCI install (basically coming from ATA, without reformating with our stock image). AHCI with registry tweak : [zp src=”atto-ahci-samsung.jpg” album=”blog/samsungSSD/” ...