service management

Hi, everyone, For days I have been battling to install the drivers and other software for a HP M1132 MFP printer/scanner on a laptop that runs Win 7 Home Basic 64-bit. On other laptops (running a 32-bit version of Win 7, and XP, respectively) and an XP desktop the install went flawlessly, but...

I have spent days trying to solve this problem - so any suggestions will be most gratefully received! I run a group of Windows XP Professional (SP3, 32 bit) machines in a workgroup, all using the same id and password, the id being in the administrators group on each machine. One of the...

I saw thread on similar problem and mentioned I need to make sure services.msc -> Virtual Disk Service (VDS) to automatic and started. I made this change and click the install again. The same message shown again. After message the VDS will stopped. I can restart and try install again. no luck...

Hey Guys, i have a problem with the service TCP/IP NET BIOS Helper... Error Code 1083 i cannot for the life of me figure out how to get past this as before i had produced this error the service was not in operation at all (The service could not be found) - following a .reg code and...

I'm using Windows 7. I installed xampp. The default port of Apache is 80. If I start Apache with this default port, I can't start it. After searching google, i found process NT Kernel & System (with PID of 4 ) listening on port 80. Some friends disable manually it by end process in Task Manager...

A little background and info: I support a number of people who for one reason or another need to be able to do things a local admin can do like install programs and start services (or more accurately allow a program they're running to start a service). All users are in the local administrators...

Here is a list of Network Connection Fixes I have read about. (Ignore the html coed) <P>1. Click "Start" and type "Fix Net" and press enter to let windows try to diagnose and repair problems. <P>2. Verify network drivers are up to date for your adapter... (upgrading may use old Vista...

I have" AERO" disabled in order for older apps not to switch windows color, turns out windows 7 is not running same colors as vista did. If any program freezes, i cant close it. I click CLose button and nothing happened. Even moving mouse over X X is not hovered (dont see the effect) So i click...

When anyone reports a problem with delayed startups and shutdowns the first suggestion is to check that "Administratitive Logs" Under Event Viewer / Custom Views These logs show errors with drivers and hardware. Atikmdag Error FINALLY resolved. I've been pestered by this error in my...

I have 3 computers on my network running Windows 7. I created a homegroup on one, and successfully connected to it from another. On the third computer, however, I'm having some problems. If I try to join the homegroup the normal way, I get the message "Windows cannot set up a homegroup on...

Background: I am a developer. I write Windows software for a living, have done for many years. And this problem has got me flummoxed :( I've written a simple Windows service. It was working just great on Windows XP. So I ported the source code across and recompiled it. No problems experienced...

Hi there, As I've mentioned in another topic before, I've had mysterious problems with my laptop and windows 7. Somehow, totally random my computer loses connection. When restarting it's stuck at "shutting down" . I've now figured out a work-around for the stuck at shutting down problem. I use...

I just installed Windows 7 RC on my main computer. I use it to hold all my music and video files and serve them up to two Xbox360's and a laptop. Windows Media Player has been scanning and updating my library non-stop and eating up all my cpu. Wmpnetwk.exe is the culprit. It makes my computer...

so randomly every now and then it would tell me i dont have permission to delete a folder or to save a file to disk here and there but if i were to wait say oh 1-2 minutes it would perform the action without issue.... if i unzip a folder i may delete it without issue, if i unzip that folder and...

Vista RC1 5600 P4 2.8C (@3.43GHz) 1GB DDR memory First of all, I know Vista doesnt take lightly on the amount of resource usage, but the way explorer.exe uses resources has shown up oddly, and I was wondering if anyone has pin-pointed it to a certain task or service yet that could be...