To understand how undeleting a file in Windows would work and the odds of success, it is helpful to know how a file is deleted. Say you have a file on your hard drive. It could be a text file or a bitmap image, anything like that. Your file is allocating a certain amount of space on your hard drive, a physical location on the disk. The operating system (Windows) points to this … [Read more...]
Trojan Dangerous Virus
"System Error! Your system is infected with dangerous virus! Note: Strongly recommended to install antispyware program to clean your system and avoid total crash of your computer! Click OK to download the antispyware(recommended)" This error message would pop up any time a user was browsing with IE or going through My Computer at random folders it would pop up. Clicking … [Read more...]
Printers: Starting from Scratch
Ran into an instance of the Print Spooler service (spoolsv.exe) crashing continuously on a few machines. This seemed to be tied to a recent update and a particular printer. Early speculation pointed to the BrPrint print processor used by Brother printers and the Dell 1700. Since the Print Spooler was crashing, I was unable to delete printers, adjust drivers, or adjust the … [Read more...]
Disable Firefox’s ‘Set as Desktop Background’ option
For a kiosk setup, it can be a bit disruptive for users to be changing the Windows desktop wallpaper. They might change it to something offensive, hard to read, or simply unprofessional. This function can be disabled for most applications through group policy, but Firefox still allows a hole. In Firefox, if you right-click on an image the context menu offers 'Set as Desktop … [Read more...]
Ultra VNC and the invisible Office 2007 Office Button
When using VNC to remote control a machine with Office 2007 you may notice that the Office Button menu (top-left corner, main menu) does not display when using VNC. I gather this is because the menu is rendered with layered menus. If you click where the menu should be the machine responds properly, such as opening the 'Save As...' window, the 'Open...' window, etc. The menu … [Read more...]