How to Reset Local Security Policy Settings to Default in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP Get rid of any restrictive Group Policies Have you ever gotten a computer second-hand? Maybe from a company that was shutting down or from someone who no longer needed theirs? Ideally, you would want to simply reformat the computer and start from scratch, right? However, that’s not always the case. Let’s say you get a computer that has Windows already installed, but you don’t have the original CD or product key that came with the computer....

How to View the Size of User Mailboxes in Exchange 2007 Quickly see who’s hogging the space If you’ve recently upgraded to Exchange 2007, you may have noticed that two really useful columns in Exchange 2003, Size and Total Items, are missing! Personally, I found this very annoying because it was a great way to quickly see which Exchange users were taking up the most space on the server. The worst thing about the whole thing is that the columns don’t even show up when you go to theAdd/Remove Columnsdialog in Exchange....

How to Fix “Resource file C_PsdRsDll not found!” Error A rare, but royal pain in the HP As an IT support specialist, I love dealing with obscure Windows errors that sound absolutely ridiculous and make little to no sense. The great thing is most of the time you really don’t have to know what the exact problem is in order to fix the problem. Take, for example, the following strange error that I recently saw:...

How to Fix “The Windows Installer service could not be accessed” Error We walk you thru 5 methods Recently, a friend of mine tried to install a program on his Windows machine and the computer gave the blue screen of death error. After he restarted his computer, he tried to run a different program and he got the following message: If you are getting this error in Windows, here are a few things you can try to fix it!...

How to Fix “Microsoft Register Server has Stopped Working” Seems to be an x64 problem One thing I’ve always enjoyed about working in IT over the last 8 years is trying to successfully find a solution to tough Windows error messages. I’ve written about many before, such asThe Device Cannot Start,Stop: 0x00000F4 error blue screen, etc. Another one I came across recently was the following: I got this message when trying to register a DLL using theregsvr32command from the command line on Vista Ultimate x64....