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Fixing AutoCad 2008 not starting problem

Couple of days ago strange thing happened. There are some classes at my university that have AutoCad 2008 freshly installed. Day before everything was working fine but next day suddenly AutoCad just stopped working. No error, no log – nothing. When user clicks on AutoCad executable nothing happens. We found out that it only happens for limited users only. So we guessed that the problem is probably related to some permissions of the files AutoCad tries to modify. It wasn't AutoCad folder neither from "Program Files" nor "Common Files" since users already had modifications rights to those folders. Since . . . → Read More: Fixing AutoCad 2008 not starting problem

Count number of users who logged on to workstation in the last month (with Batch script)

Recently at my job I've got a task to write script/program to count how many users had logged to workstation in the last month. While my colleague tried to complete this task with C#, I've decided to use old good Batch. In fact, I was thinking about using PowerShell at first, but since all computers this script will be run in runs Windows XP and doesn't have PowerShell installed. To accomplish what I want I've found out about VBS script called EVENTQUERY which exists in Windows XP. After reading documentation I've decided that it would allow me to do . . . → Read More: Count number of users who logged on to workstation in the last month (with Batch script)

Solving "The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem" Windows Update error

Today at work I had to restore over 50 computers from disk image (made with Norton/Symantec Ghost). All computers but one restored successfully. One computer had a bit different hardware so we need to update drivers for it manually. First place I look for device drivers is Windows Updates therefore I’ve tried to run it (BTW, the computer I’m talking about was running Windows XP SP3). The problem was that when I had pressed either “Custom” or “Express”, Windows Update page showed me the following error with the error code 0xC80003FA: The website has encountered a problem and cannot . . . → Read More: Solving "The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem" Windows Update error