Windows 7

Before installing the Convenience Rollup, install the two prerequisite updates:  KB3102810 and KB3083710 When installing the Windows 7 Convenience Rollup (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3125574), I had to disable Windows Updates because WUSA kept sitting there spinning for an hour Searching for updates. net stop wuauserv That did the trick, restarted the Convenience Rollup installer and it ran right…

I have been fielding a few calls very recently where a computer was upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 automatically to a user’s surprise, so they then downgraded back to Windows 7. Mostly things work after the revert to Windows 7, however I’m seeing so many issues with Task Scheduler corruption. The task image…

I got the following error attempting to check for updates against my WSUS server from a Windows 7 system. Looking closer at the WindowsUpdate.log file (C:windowsWindowsUpdate.log), I see the following: 2014-07-17 17:10:00:141 936 e28 Agent * Search Scope = {Machine} 2014-07-17 17:10:00:141 936 e28 Setup Checking for agent SelfUpdate 2014-07-17 17:10:00:142 936 e28 Setup Client…

I have not tried these steps outlined below, so use at your own risk. Boot from a Windows 7 or Windows 8 DVD Select Language Select repair computer Select Windows 7 or Windows 8 Open Command Prompt in advance option Enter: copy c:Windowssystem32utilman.exe c: Enter: copy c:Windowssystem32cmd.exe c:Windowssystem32utilman.exe Press “y”, Enter Restart Computer On Logon…

A Cisco VPN Client (5.x) on a Windows 7 system began to exhibit slow loading behavior. Slow in a sense of 2-3 minutes to load the interface to connect the VPN endpoint. I noticed the status window indicated it was loading the cert store. Investigating further, I determined the slowness was due to the Personal…

I’m working on locking down a Windows 7 Embedded thin client lately and have a need to restrict some Internet Explorer settings. I have to do this on a handful of thin clients. The first thing I do is create a Local Group Policy for NON ADMINISTRATORS. This is important because I do not want…

When you customize your Windows 7 theme and save it, you can access the saved theme by navigating to: %LOCALAPPDATA%microsoftwindowsthemes In my case, this is: C:UsersrkreiderAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsThemes

Got this error recently on a Windows 7 32bit system while trying to do updates.  Previously, Automatic Updates were enabled and it ended up in a Installing 3 of 3 loop. To fix this, refer to Microsoft’s KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900936Run each of the following in a command prompt as Administrator: netsh winhttp reset proxy net stop…