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In event logs for some of your desktops you might see this message: The system failed to register host (A) resource records (RRs) for network adapterwith settings: [Followed by network adapter information] The reason the system could not register these RRs was because the DNS server failed the update request… What you can expect to…

Rumour has it that XP OEM licenses will be phased out in January. Some TELA laptop vendors are certified for Vista, but these models aren’t yet being offered to schools for lease. We have some laptops coming up for renewal in September, and I don’t think Vista will be available before then. It may be…

One of the most annoying things you can ever see on a PC is the duplicate IP address warning dialog. If you dismiss this, it pops up again a couple of seconds later and will just keep on doing that until you give up in disgust. There isn’t much documentation to be found on the…

SchoolTech 07 is coming up in July in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. As with the inaugural conference last year this promises to be a showcase of IT technologies that are of interest to the school sector. Although the range of keynote speakers and topics is new, attendees will see little difference in the vendors’ stalls…

In New Zealand we have several excellent news websites, but these all suffer from the same problems – each page is loaded with advertising. So that tabbed browser, like IE7 or Firefox, with a few tabs open soon sucks up all the memory and CPU and your PC grinds to a near-halt. I’ve got sick…

Windows Live Mail is the new mail client that will replace Outlook Express on Windows XP, and Windows Mail on Vista. It incorporates numerous enhancements over its predecessors. Microsoft has gone through several evolutions of the client, not least in its name: from WM to WLMd to WLM, and there is also Windows Live Hotmail, another…

WLW Beta 2 is now available. The new version has a new look as well as various enhancements. However, it still does not support text justification in posts, which is a shame as it’s a great way of creating posts offline. Download here

Earlier I described the saga of getting printer drivers that work under Vista without crashing the spooler subsystem. I am pleased to say that after loading the Vista drivers onto the server and deploying them through a custom GPO that only deploys those Vista compatible printers, the first machine I joined to the domain after…

I have just managed to get a dedicated PC that I will use solely for imaging, both for Vista and XP. This one has the Radeon Xpress 200 chipset (onboard X300 graphics) in an Intel D101GGC motherboard, so it supports Aero, unlike anything older that we have here. The fun started when I tried to install XP…

Changes in the Vista print driver model means your existing server shared printers (especially if pushed down from a WS2003R2 server) may cause the local spooler subsystem to crash, disabling printing. Some printer manufacturers have updated their Windows built-in drivers but have not made them available for general release. Use the following procedure to install…