Friday, 13 March 2015
Remove All Adverts - uTorrent
The adverts in uTorrent have now got to the point where they are harder to remove so I am putting together a little cheat sheet.
1) Open uTorrent as usual
2) Click OPTIONS menu
3) Click PREFERENCES option
4) In the new dialog hold down SHIFT with F2 and click on the ADVANCED option
Now find the following using the search box and using the radio buttons set them all to FALSE:
• bt.enable_pulse
• distributed_share.enable
• gui.show_notorrents_node
• offers.left_rail_offer_enabled
• gui.show_plus_upsell
• offers.content_offer_autoexec
• offers.sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled
• offers.featured_content_badge_enabled
• offers.featured_content_notifications_enabled
• offers.featured_content_rss_enabled
• gui.show_gate_notify
• gui.show_plus_av_upsell
• gui.show_plus_conv_upsell
• gui.show_plus_upsell_nodes
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
GPO Software Installation Failing - UserEnv errors
I have scoured the Internet on a fix to this one so there are a number of things I came across to make sure my clients were getting their computer configuration GPO settings, particularly software installation working.
This is a common problem, so here are a number of potential fixes...
1) Spanning Tree Protocol - on the switches this can slow down the network card getting to a connected state as it negotiates speed and connection, some cards reset as they do this which creates a port reset on the switch etc etc. in a loop which means the OS is up before the network stack and whistles straight past the computer settings phase of startup.
2) DisableDHCPMediaSense - this again relates to starting of the network state, interesting work around from Microsoft....turn it off! But it may fix some client PCs.
3) GpNetworkStartTimeoutPolicyValue - Yet again another race condition between the OS and NIC, this setting allows upping the number until it works so gives a lot of leeway.
4) iPass Protocol - Turning this protocol off on the network connection resolved my issue. This protocol 'piggy-backs' on the network connection looking for ways to authenticate for iPass connectivity on foreign networks when roaming. You are more likely to need this on the wireless than the the wired connection so disabling it isnt too much of a nightmare scenario.
This is a common problem, so here are a number of potential fixes...
1) Spanning Tree Protocol - on the switches this can slow down the network card getting to a connected state as it negotiates speed and connection, some cards reset as they do this which creates a port reset on the switch etc etc. in a loop which means the OS is up before the network stack and whistles straight past the computer settings phase of startup.
2) DisableDHCPMediaSense - this again relates to starting of the network state, interesting work around from Microsoft....turn it off! But it may fix some client PCs.
3) GpNetworkStartTimeoutPolicyValue - Yet again another race condition between the OS and NIC, this setting allows upping the number until it works so gives a lot of leeway.
4) iPass Protocol - Turning this protocol off on the network connection resolved my issue. This protocol 'piggy-backs' on the network connection looking for ways to authenticate for iPass connectivity on foreign networks when roaming. You are more likely to need this on the wireless than the the wired connection so disabling it isnt too much of a nightmare scenario.
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Apache Office 2007 MIME
Apache doesn't know what the new Office file formats are, to it they are just Zip files with some XML files inside....that's because that is exactly what they are.
So if you have some links to docx pptx or xlsx files on your Apache server and they are getting opened incorrectly into Winzip or 7Zip then its time to educate Apache. Crack open the http.conf file and add the following line of code to the 'AddType' section (it should already have a couple of entries to do with .gz and .z files):
Restart the Apache services and away you go.
So if you have some links to docx pptx or xlsx files on your Apache server and they are getting opened incorrectly into Winzip or 7Zip then its time to educate Apache. Crack open the http.conf file and add the following line of code to the 'AddType' section (it should already have a couple of entries to do with .gz and .z files):
AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats .docx .pptx .xlsx
Restart the Apache services and away you go.
Thursday, 10 September 2009
IIS SendRequestToServerForFileInformation failed with 0x80190194
WSUS 3.0 SP2 was pushed down to itself the other day. After clicking away on install now we got a nice error message about failure and then the statutory restart now window.
After sighing a lot I found the problem, the WSUS server had run out of space. Cleaning up the drive a bit and reinstalling looked like a winner but after installing the update no clients were connecting to the server.
It appears the update had done part of the install but had not migrated the IIS settings over and so we had part of new site working and part of an old site as well. WSUS runs on ports 8530 and 80 for the console. Changing the site ports on the newly installed site within IIS manager fixed the issue and the clients started to reconnect.
After sighing a lot I found the problem, the WSUS server had run out of space. Cleaning up the drive a bit and reinstalling looked like a winner but after installing the update no clients were connecting to the server.
It appears the update had done part of the install but had not migrated the IIS settings over and so we had part of new site working and part of an old site as well. WSUS runs on ports 8530 and 80 for the console. Changing the site ports on the newly installed site within IIS manager fixed the issue and the clients started to reconnect.
Thursday, 29 May 2008
BDD: Revenge of nVidia
OK so maybe this one isnt nVidias fault but its always nice to point the finger at them after all that BSOD in Vista due to crappy drivers.....thats another story....
Having had the joy of booting into the BDD image and getting the NIC to see my distribution share we moved on to getting the image installed, no problem until after the first boot and I get a 'disk read error has occurred' which appears to come straight after the BIOS.
First up, its not likely your drive if you are in the middle of an install so dont panic. Secondly there are some fixes (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931760):
In short:
1) Change the BIOS settings from your drive to LARGE from AUTO, it will still be full size.
2) Get hotfix 931760, this can be downloaded from the nice chaps at http://thehotfixshare.net/
The problem has something to do with the XP kernel hence a hotfix for XP, fixed in SP3 apparently but who wants to jump the gun early on that one eh?
Having had the joy of booting into the BDD image and getting the NIC to see my distribution share we moved on to getting the image installed, no problem until after the first boot and I get a 'disk read error has occurred' which appears to come straight after the BIOS.
First up, its not likely your drive if you are in the middle of an install so dont panic. Secondly there are some fixes (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931760):
In short:
1) Change the BIOS settings from your drive to LARGE from AUTO, it will still be full size.
2) Get hotfix 931760, this can be downloaded from the nice chaps at http://thehotfixshare.net/
The problem has something to do with the XP kernel hence a hotfix for XP, fixed in SP3 apparently but who wants to jump the gun early on that one eh?
BDD 2007 and nForce
I just started experimenting with BDD 2007 with MDT 2008, great product and the right price - FREE!
Got the whole thing setup, smacked in some drivers, XP with SP2, few apps for testing, under an older test computer with an nForce2 mobo it worked a treat except for a few app tweaks but under the newer Shuttle SN68SG2 systems we use in house there is another issue.
The Win PE 2 that is used is based on Vista so Vista drivers are required for it to build the PE image that boots from the network, fine no probs, however the driver used a two-tier model as discussed here: http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/JohanArwidmark/tabid/78/EntryID/29/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Now this is all well and good however it doesnt work! Looking at other drivers I have added for the nForce2 mobo the two-tier driver did as it was told and a 'Network Bus Enumerator' driver is added as well automatically. With the Vista on the 630a drivers this doesn't happen so when I boot my image it simply doesnt work, although it boots off the network image entering the user details for the share simply says 'Network Not Found', running IPConfig shows only the internal network adapter :(
Lets hope nVidia can sort out there drivers once and for all, since the days of playing with BartPE nForce drivers have never been easy.
UPDATE: It would seem that the Vista driver for this type of board works differently, I removed all the nVidia drivers from BDD and updated the install point and readded the WIM image, booting now works.....on to the SATA driver now :(
Got the whole thing setup, smacked in some drivers, XP with SP2, few apps for testing, under an older test computer with an nForce2 mobo it worked a treat except for a few app tweaks but under the newer Shuttle SN68SG2 systems we use in house there is another issue.
The Win PE 2 that is used is based on Vista so Vista drivers are required for it to build the PE image that boots from the network, fine no probs, however the driver used a two-tier model as discussed here: http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/JohanArwidmark/tabid/78/EntryID/29/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Now this is all well and good however it doesnt work! Looking at other drivers I have added for the nForce2 mobo the two-tier driver did as it was told and a 'Network Bus Enumerator' driver is added as well automatically. With the Vista on the 630a drivers this doesn't happen so when I boot my image it simply doesnt work, although it boots off the network image entering the user details for the share simply says 'Network Not Found', running IPConfig shows only the internal network adapter :(
Lets hope nVidia can sort out there drivers once and for all, since the days of playing with BartPE nForce drivers have never been easy.
UPDATE: It would seem that the Vista driver for this type of board works differently, I removed all the nVidia drivers from BDD and updated the install point and readded the WIM image, booting now works.....on to the SATA driver now :(
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
FlexLM and ESX
We were a little worried about migrating a server running FlexLM as the licensing was tied to the MAC address of the network card and we had never tried this before.
We took the plunge however with a couple of potential fixes in the pipeline. Well first fix and a winner! All we had to do on the guest was enter the MAC address of the old server into the advanced settings of the network card configuration. Windows did the rest and as it is in the VM itself this means VMotion will work too.
The second fix involved editing config files on the VM to hardcode the MAC onto the ESX servers virtual cards, this of course would mean the server would have to reside on that virtual card at all times which could be a problem when using HA and VMotion.
We took the plunge however with a couple of potential fixes in the pipeline. Well first fix and a winner! All we had to do on the guest was enter the MAC address of the old server into the advanced settings of the network card configuration. Windows did the rest and as it is in the VM itself this means VMotion will work too.
The second fix involved editing config files on the VM to hardcode the MAC onto the ESX servers virtual cards, this of course would mean the server would have to reside on that virtual card at all times which could be a problem when using HA and VMotion.
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