Archive | February, 2009

Windows 7 Beta with mp3 bug

19 Feb

Many users (using Windows 7 beta build 7000), reported a bug in Windows Media Player 12, which cause the corruption of MP3 files. Microsoft confirms this bug and releases an official patch for fixing this issue. With this update, Microsoft includes some instructions about installing Windows 7 beta. Basically they tell you to backup your mp3 files before installing Windows 7 beta and the install the KB961367 update (or make them read-only).

Uninstall McAfee Common Management Agent

15 Feb

Follow these steps in order to uninstall and reinstall the Common Management Agent

  • Run regedit
  • Locate [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\TVD\Shared Components\Framework]
  • Locate Data Path and Installed Path and take a not of their data.
  • Stop McAfee Framework Service
  • Using the Installed Path, run the following

“C:\Program Files\Network Associates\Common Framework\FrmInst.exe” /forceuninstall

  • Restart the system and confirm that the following has been deleted

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\TVD\Shared Components\Framework]

  • Confirm that the directories in the Installed Path and Data Path have been deleted.

Nou you can reinstall the Framework Service with the following command:

FramePkg.exe /Install=agent /ForceInstall

Note: Get the latest FramePkg.exe from your EPO server.

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 Memory Issue

8 Feb

When you upgrade from a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard SP2 to Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition SP2 you may have a problem with memory. In case you have more than 4GB RAM on the machine (my situation was with 8GB) you have to do the following:

Locate boot.ini (it should be on the root of C:\ drive)

Under [operating systems] find the entry of Windows (it will be something like multi(0)disk(0)……=”Windows Server 2003, Enterprise” /noexecute=optout / fastdetect

and add

“/PAE” at the end

So now you will have

multi(0)disk(0)…..=”Windows Server 2003, Enterprise” /noexecute=optout /fastdetect /PAE

Restart the machine and now you ‘ll see the correct memory size.

Terminal Services Sessions Are Full

3 Feb

You are trying to connect on a Windows 2000 Standalone server and the terminal service ssessions are full.

  • Connect to a machine on the same subnet of the target machine and make sure you have administrative privileges.
  • Run cmd.exe
  • Enter the following command: qwinsta /server:192.168.1.3 (IP address of the target server)
  • The above will show you the users that hold the sessions of terminal services: (You will get a result like the following)

terminal services sessions in windows 2000

On this example the Administrator is connected from console and also holds another session of TS.
Also user1 is connected through TS.
In order to disconnect one of these users enter the following command:
rwinsta /server:192.168.1.3 3 (IP address of the target server and ID number)
This command will disconnect user user1.


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