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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Vista Infinite Update Loop

Fixed reboot loop by using Vista CD to enter recovery command prompt, renamed C:\Windows\WinSxS\pending.xml to pending.xml.OLD
booted fine to login screen.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Vista Missing User Profile

Missing your Vista user profile? Rebooted several times and it's still not loading? If it still exists in Users folder, follow the instructions.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130095-user-profile-service-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Bluescreen when running safe mode

Something changed this part of the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot
Reference: http://blog.didierstevens.com/2007/02/19/restoring-safe-mode-with-a-reg-file/
He gaves a .REG file that you can run in normal mode to fix the bluescreen issue.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Symantec Ghost MSI

SCRIPT TO INSTALL VIA GPO
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
MyFile = "C:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost\ghost.exe"
If (Not fso.FileExists(MyFile)) Then
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "msiexec /i ""\\server\software\Symantec Ghost 8.2 1117\Symantec Ghost.msi"" /q"
WScript.Sleep 300000
End If

Wednesday, September 23, 2009