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Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7’The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.Monday, February 1st, 2010
…How’s that for good grammar? Anyway, this error popped up for me in Windows 7 the other day. After the computer boots up, you click on your user icon, type in your password, and BAM! “The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.” And then you are logged off, and stuck back at the user select screen. Disable remote UAC in Windows Vista and Windows 7Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
In earlier versions of Windows, if you had files or folders with NTFS permissions assigned to the “Administrators” group (i.e., “Administrators” are allowed to edit the files but other users are not), they applied to all users in the Administrators group like you would expect. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 (with UAC enabled), a process must be elevated and be running as a user in the Administrators group to be given these permissions. This is fine when you’re dealing with stuff on your local machine… when you try to do something with a file that you need administrative permission to do, Windows just prompts you to elevate, and you may get a UAC prompt depending on your system settings. But if you are dealing with stuff on a different machine, perhaps by Windows file sharing, there’s no way to elevate yourself. So, if you are trying to access a shared folder that only “Administrators” are allowed to access, even if you are a member of the “Administrators” group, you will not be able to access it. Create a Windows 7 “all in one” DVDMonday, January 4th, 2010
One of the cool things about Windows Vista is that, if you have an installation DVD for Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate, you can use it to install any of those editions — which one you get just depends on which product key you enter at the beginning of the installation. For some reason, Microsoft took this cool tidbit away from Windows 7. The disc you get only lets you install one edition. However, there’s an easy way to turn such a “locked” disc into a disc that will install any edition again, just like with Windows Vista. Windows – Turn off your screen NOWFriday, August 28th, 2009
One thing I always wished I was able to do is issue a command to turn off my laptop screen, but leave the computer running. If I’m going to leave my computer for a while, it doesn’t really make sense to leave the screen on wasting power, but the computer might be busy working on something, so I’d like to be able to leave it on. Windows, of course, lets you specify some amount of time to wait before turning off your screen. But, here’s a utility you can use to turn off your screen right away. Get the old taskbar behavior back in Windows 7Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
While I am actually quite fond of the new taskbar in Windows 7, not everyone will take a liking to it right away. Here is a good article on getting the taskbar to behave like it used to, with a separate Quick Launch section and the window titles of your applications displayed. Use Windows 7′s built-in h.264 decoder in Media Player Classic HomecinemaWednesday, August 12th, 2009
On Windows, I always install the CCCP to get all of the codecs I need. It’s a nice pack of mostly open source software. Most of the audio and video decoding functionality it provides is provided by libavcodec from the FFmpeg project — this library also powers the decoding of VLC, Perian, and most notable media players on Linux. With the CCCP, this is provided in the form of FFDShow, a set of DirectShow filters that can be used by any Windows application that supports DirectShow. The CCCP also includes Media Player Classic, a nice, light player, pre-configured to just play everything right. No thinking involved, just install the CCCP. However, I find that libavcodec is not fast enough to decode high-bitrate h.264 content in real-time on my machine (2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo) — say, for example, the h.264 content that you would find on a Blu-ray disc. So, I set out looking for alternatives. Windows 7 – First impressionsFriday, August 7th, 2009
The Good Windows 7 seems to me to be, more or less, Windows Vista done right. They could have easily called this something like “Windows Vista Second Edition” (if not for the negative association a lot of people seem to have with “Vista”). Most of the improvements are behind the scenes, with more optimal use of memory, less stuff running in the background, and performance optimizations across the board making your computer seem much snappier. If you are familiar with Windows Vista, moving to Windows 7 will not be a problem for you at all. From the surface, it looks mostly the same. Windows 7 availability on MSDN/TechNetThursday, August 6th, 2009
If you have a MSDN or TechNet subscription, get your evaluation copy of Windows 7 now! The RTM build is available for download as of a few minutes ago. I’ll post some impressions later. | ||||
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