Category: Windows

How to install clean version of Windows 8.1 on Acer W510

Acer W510 tablet comes with Windows 8 Home and Premium pre-installed. You can upgrade this version to Windows 8.1 for free via Windows App Store. However, if you want to install clean version of Windows 8.1, there are couple of tricks you need to know.
Adobe Flash installation fails with error 1722

Issue Adobe Flash 11 .msi deployment via group policy fails. Windows Application logs record following error: Source: MsiInstalerEvent ID: 11722Level: ErrorDescription:Product: Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX — Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.…
Find which drive letter corresponds to DeviceHarddiskVolume…

Issue Windows 7 system logs started recording event ID 55 (NTFS) – The system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolume2.
Force remove MS Office 97

It’s a bit unusual to come across software released in 1996, but there you go – I was given a decent Windows 7 PC with working version of Microsoft Office 97 Professional. And Office 97 decided not to give up that easily. Trying to remove via normal control panel method failed with following error: Setup…
Find POP3 / IMAP / HTTP password saved in Outlook or another application

This is quite common scenario – a user forgets the password for his email account, but still have some application or a device collecting mail from the account is question. Here are few options to recover the password in such case:
Can’t install Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup (Errors 1603, 0x80070643)

Issue Cannot install Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 8 (the same issue is likely to affect older Rollup versions as well). Installation fails and following errors are recorded in Application and System logs. Event ID: 1024Level: ErrorSource: MsiInstallerDescription:Product: Microsoft Exchange Server – Update ‘Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (KB2903903) 14.2.390.3’…
Can’t send CTRL+R to DELL iDRAC Console

Was working on DELL PowerEdge 2950 server via iDRAC 5 console using Internet Explorer. To get into DELL RAID console you have to press CTRL + R during initial boot stages. Unfortunately CTRL + R is also a shortcut to refresh IE webpage. So instead of passing CTRL + R combination to the console, IE refreshes the page and…
DELL iDRAC 5 Console Top Menu not working

Accessing DELL PowerEdge 2950 server via iDRAC 5 console using Internet Explorer 11 – console top menu is not active. i.e. if you click on Macros, nothing happens. I believe the same issue affects Internet Explorer 10. To resolve I had to enable IE Comparability View for the iDRAC IP address. In Internet Explorer 11 this can be…
How to boot Acer W510 from external CD/DVD/USB drive

Acer Iconia W510, as many other Windows 8 devices, comes with UEFI Secure Boot enabled in BIOS, which prevents booting from unauthorized devices.Acer didn’t make disabling Secure Boot in W510 very straight forward.
Location of built-in icons in Windows

Windows PCs have many .dll resource files that contain number of icons. Here are some of them. C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll
Share Windows Internet connection via Wi-Fi hotspot

All commands in blue need to be run in elevated command prompt. Check that your Wi-Fi hardware and drivers support wi-fi hotspot:netsh wlan show driversLook for line: “Hosted Network Support: Yes“
VLC – This Blu-ray Disc needs a library for AACS decoding

Trying to play Blu-ray disk via VLC media player produces following error: Blu-ray error:This Blu-ray Disc needs a library for AACS decoding, and your system does not have it.Your input can’t be opened:VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘bluray:///F:/’. Check the log for details. To resolve head to vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name and download two files: KEYDB.cfg and libaacs.dll.