December 19

Host Based Printer Not working in Remote Desktop Session

“Host based” printers don’t work with Microsoft’s Easy Print Remote Desktop driver. (For example HP Laserjet p1102w)

The work around is to install the driver on the Remote Desktop server and then change group policy so the Easy Print driver is not used first in a Remote Desktop session.

Go to Computer Config -> Admin Templates -> Windows Components -> Remote Desktop Services -> RD Session Host -> Printer Redirection -> Use Remote Desktop Easy Print printer driver first –> disabled.

August 24

Using Group Policy Disable UAC

Go to group policy console

Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options

Change the following items:

User Account Control: Behaviour of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode > Change to  ‘Elevate without prompt.’

User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation > Change to “Disabled”.

User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode > Change to “Disabled”.

User Account Control: Only elevate UIAccess applications that are installed in secure locations > Change to “Disabled’.

Try this:

User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation:  Disabled

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August 22

A Disk Read Error Occurred

Windows XP, Vista,7,8

Problem:
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

When press Ctrl+Ale+Del no response

Causes:

  • Incorrect or invalid MBR configuration
  • Improperly configured partition table
  • Faulty hard drive
  • IDE cables failing
  • Bad RAM memory  Check the Memory
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August 21

Recovery a Corrupted Registry

  1. Attach the client hard drive to a working computer
  2. Perform the following command

For Windows XP

copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak

delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default

copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default

For Windows 7,8,10

Look in the \windows\system32\config\regback folder for good files and copy them back to \system32\config folder

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