Richard Parmiter » Microsoft http://www.parmiter.com Virtualisation blog and Knowledge Base Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:37:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Remove the Network icon from the systray – Windows 2008 http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2008/2009/09/RP616 http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2008/2009/09/RP616#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:19:26 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=616
Windows 2008 has some icons that appear in the systray by default. The network icon is an example that appears even in a terminal server or Citrix session, as shown: It is un-necessary clutter that would be best to remove in the terminal server session. However, there is no Group Policy option to do this in [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2008/2009/09/RP616/feed 0 IMA crash & CriticalSectionTimeout value http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/07/RP607 http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/07/RP607#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:08:01 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=607
I have been experiencing some strange crashes of the following services: Citrix Independent Management Architecture (IMA) – ImaSrv.exe Citrix Print Manager Service – CpSvc.exe These were happenning on a Windows 2003 x64 Standard Edition R2 server with Citrix XenApp 4.5 R04. While investigating the problems I also noted the following error while trying to open task manager. Either CTRL-SHIFT-ESC, [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/07/RP607/feed 0 File Name Warning: There is a file or folder on your computer called c:\program causing problems. Rename? http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/06/RP601 http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/06/RP601#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:00:52 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=601
Have seen the following error while logging onto a server: File Name Warning There is a file or folder on your computer called “c:\program” which could cause certain applications to not function correctly. Renaming it to “c:\program1″ would solve this problem. Would you like to rename it now? Rename | Ignore This error occurred on a server that has [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/06/RP601/feed 0 Easy way to remove the Microsoft Office document image writer printer http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/06/RP595 http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/06/RP595#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:45:06 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=595
By default, when Office 2003 is installed, the Microsoft Office document image writer appears in the printers folder, as shown: Here is a really easy way of removing the Microsoft Office document image writer printer via a script. cscript c:\windows\system32\prnmngr.vbs -d -p “Microsoft Office Document Image Writer” This can be added to a build sctipt if needed. ]]> http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/06/RP595/feed 0 Debugging with Windbg http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/05/RP585 http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/05/RP585#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 14:05:15 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=585
If you have crash dump files, the only real way to debug them is by using windbg. This can be installed as part of the Windows debugging tools for 32 bit or 64 bit. The symbols paths need to be set correctly to correctly identify the relevant information. This can be done for Microsoft and Citrix [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/05/RP585/feed 0