Nov 25, 2009

Windows Media Player (Vista/Windows 7) stuttering while playing MP3 files

Solution:

Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Sound -> Speakers / Headphones -> Enhancements - Check "Disable all enhancements" and Ok

Nov 24, 2009

Application popup: : \SystemRoot\System32\RDPDD.dll failed to load

The problem is with the size of the session image space. The session image space is shared by the display drivers and printer drivers. If the sum of the drivers (rdpdd is an additional display driver) gets too big then there is no room left to load.

If you increase the size of the session image space then you can run remote desktop.

Add the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]

"SessionImageSize"=dword:00000020

Oct 28, 2009

Get a DELL Service Tag on the remote Linux system

dmidecode -s system-serial-number

Sep 18, 2009

WinXP: Restore a lost wallpaper from cache

actually, a cache of the current wallpaper bitmap stored here:

"C:\Documents and Settings\-User Name-\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Wallpaper1.bmp"

Aug 19, 2009

Remove an access list from ASA(PIX)

To clear an access list from the running configuration, use the clear configure access list command in global configuration mode.
clear configure access-list [id]

Jul 9, 2009

How to remove a pre-login wallpaper from Windows Home Server

Run Regedit and go there:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Remove the "Walpaper" key

Jun 1, 2009

umount NFS filesystem fails in Linux

there is a good example how to umount dead NFS share (let's assume that umount -f / doesn't work.

Quick fix to this problem is editing /etc/mtab file and removing the nfs filesystem mount point . In Linux /etc/mtab file contains all local and nfs mounted filesystems.By editing /etc/mtab i was able to umount hanged nfs filesystem on my Linux machine without doing a reboot.

Finally to resolve
failing nfs mount issue i commented the entry in /etc/mtab file :
#sun:/export /mnt/nfs nfs rw,addr=192.168.0.135 0 0.