Problem:
When trying up install updates in Windows Vista you get an error code of 80072F8F.
Solution:
Check the Date/Time. In many cases if the Date/Time are in-correct you will receive the 80072F8F error message.
Just got my site back on the web again. It has been along 3 months but I’m ready to start adding more content again. Since this site has been down the company that I work for changed ownership so I’ve been busy trying to help out with the change in the company. Also got back together with my girlfriend so with everything going on I’ve been to busy to work on the site. Know that everything has settled down I’m ready to keep the content coming.
Just got done fixing an issue today with Windows Media Player. I had a customer that came in that streams movies over the Internet and watches them in Windows Media Player. Today he came in and when and would get an error message saying Low on Memory. When the error message came up I had two options. The fist option was to click “OK” and the video would not play. The second option was a button that said “More Help.” When I clicked on More Help I received an error of c00d11c6. I searched Google on a fix but did not find anything.
Anyways just messing around I was able to fix the issue by doing the following:
Browse to: %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft
Rename the Windows Media folder to Windows Media.Old
Once I did that I was able to stream music again without the low on memory error message coming up.
Just got done launching another website. This one is call YellMyIP.com. It is just a simple site that displays your global IP address. Check it out: www.yellmyip.com
I came across another windows firewall problem today. When you try to start the Windows Firewall service you get a message saying:
Windows could not start the Windows Firewall on Local Computer. For more information, review the system Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 87.
These are the steps I used to fix the issue:
1. Open the command prompt in administrator mode.
2. Type netsh firewall reset
3. If you receive an error message like I did saying:
Initialization Function InitHelperDll in NSHHTTP.dll failed to start with error code 10107
The service has not been started.
4. Type netsh winsock reset
5. Restart the computer.
The Firewall should now be able to turn on. On the Vista machine I was working on some of the other symptoms included not being able to connect to the internet and not being able to open the event viewer. After I type the above command into the command prompt all of my symptoms went away.
Good Luck
I was recently repairing a customers computer and noticed that their Windows Firewall was turned off. Windows was freaking out that the firewall was off and it was displaying it’s pop-up messages in the lower right hand corner of the screen. I clicked on the balloon message to turn on the firewall but I got a message saying that it could not start. I went into the services to try and manually turn on the firewall. I noticed that the firewall was set turn automatically run when the computer is turned on but the firewall was not started. I tried to manually start the firewall but I got an error saying something like this:
Windows could not start the Windows Firewall on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 5.
Checking the event log I also got a message something like this:
Source: Service Control manager Eventlog Provider.
Event ID: 7024
The Windows Firewall service terminated with service-specific error 5 (0×5)
The error code 5 has something to do with permissions. Doing some research I figured out how to fix this issue. I was able to go into the registry and set the correct permissions. When you are done, you will be able to start the Windows Firewall.
Solution:
Go into the registry editor and browse to the following keys. You will need to set the permissions for the following account NT Service\MpsSvc. The correct value is below the location path.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Epoch
Query Value;Set Value
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy
Full Control;Read
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Defaults\FirewallPolicy
Full Control;Read
For the DHCP Client service, the issue may occur if the “NT Service\DHCP” account does not have the necessary permissions for the following keys:
Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dhcp
permission needed: Query value, Create value, Enumerate Subkeys, Notify, Read Control
Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dhcp\Configurations
permission needed: Full Control, Read
For the “Diagnostic Policy Service” service, the issue may occur when the account Trustedinstaller is missing the permissions for the key below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DPS\Parameters
permission needed: Full Control, Read
Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943996
This is going to be a quick article on how to downgrade XP on a HP DV5t-1000 laptop. I recommend that you make recovery disks of your Windows Vista installation before attempting to install XP. To install Windows XP on this laptop you will need to specify the driver during the Windows Setup. To do this you can either use a external floppy drive or use a program like nLite to slipstream the SATA drivers onto the XP install disk.
Here is the link to download the drivers for this notebook.
I like using an external floppy drive. If you are using that method you first need to copy the SATA drivers onto the floppy disk. During the XP setup you will be prompted to press F6 during the installation. You need to press F6 so the Windows installation will look to your floppy disk for the drivers.
Copy:
iaahci.cat, iaAHCI.inf, iastor.cat, isStor.inf, IaStor.sys, and TXTSETUP.OEM to the floppy disk.
NOTE: In the SATA Driver folder you will see a file called sp32478.exe. I only included it incase the drivers listed above don’t work. If they don’t work you will have to extract the sp32478.exe file.
If you don’t have an external floppy drive then use nLite to slipstream the SATA drivers. You can download nLite from: www.nliteos.com/download.html
Once Windows XP is installed, install the rest of the drivers that I have included in the zip file posted above.
There have been some reports that after the XP installation the screen is very dim. To correct this issue you need to install the latest .NET framework updates from Microsoft installed on your machine as well as the latest BIOS update from HP.
OpenOffice.org has released the new version 3.0. There has been a high download demand to download 3.0 that has caused the OpenOffice site to buckle. The new version of OpenOffice will support the Office 2007 format such as .docx files.
Microsoft is currently working on Vista SP2 and SP2 for Windows Server 2008. Currently there is not release date yet but we will watching for any updates.
I found out about 2 months ago on how you can use the actual Vista Sidebar in Windows XP. To download the files click here. There will be two files that you need to install. The first program that you will need to install is: alky_1.1_trunk_032308-000051_xp.msi then proceed to Windows_Sidebar_Installer.exe. Everything is straight forward and in a few minutres you will have the Vista Sidebar.