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Generic host process for Win32 services crashing.

Posted on November 15, 2010 by billy

This fixed the problem for me so I thought I would blog it (saves me remembering it) and lets anyone else fix the problem themselves. To completely solve “Generic Host Process for Win32 Services” problem you should: 1) Scan your … Continue reading →

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GnuPGP Key

Posted on March 19, 2008 by billy

First I generated a PGP Key Pair by typing the command gpg –gen-key You are prompted with the following gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.6; Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, … Continue reading →

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Howto – Slipstream SP2 into XP

Posted on February 5, 2007 by billy

HOWTO – Slipstreaming SP2 into Windows XP and create a bootable CD Slipstreaming a Service Pack, is the process to integrate the Service Pack into the installation so that with every new installation the Operating System and Service Pack are … Continue reading →

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AHhhhh IE 7 and XP (How-to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7)

Posted on October 21, 2006 by billy

I just installed Internet Explorer 7 on my Acer Aspire Laptop 1670, rebooted, now I’m getting the error message “The file or directory c:\$Secure is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.” the problem kept getting worse and worse … Continue reading →

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How to Troubleshoot Inter-Forest Password Migration with ADMTv2

Posted on June 5, 2006 by billy

I was having a bit of trouble migrating users from one forest to another using ADMT2. I kept getting the error message “unable to establish a session with the password session server”, after rebooting the server, still no joy. Then … Continue reading →

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