by ds | Jun 3, 2013 | Administration
Problem: Errors like these: ERROR: Could not get data for 5 perhaps we don’t collect data this far back? ERROR: Failed to get PDH value PdhAddCounter failed: The specified object was not found on the computer. (C0000BB8) Solution: Many errors regarding...
by ds | Jun 1, 2013 | Administration
Problem: You use Adobe Reader and a printer with the universal Xerox Global Print Driver, and want to print e.g. 2 copies of a one-page document – but you get 4 copies. Solution: Reset your Xerox and Adobe Reader settings, i.e. run regedit and delete the...
by ds | May 21, 2013 | C# .Net
Scenario: Basically, most developers publish their projects separately for x86 and x64 platforms. This can lead to problems if the user installs the x86 version on an x64 OS; the software might not work because of driver problems, wrong 3rd party DLL references with...
by ds | May 21, 2013 | C# .Net
This error can e.g. happen in combination with Infragistics NetAdvantage product. In my case, previously I had added some NetAdvantage controls to a Visual Studio C# project and deleted them afterwards, including the references. The project compiled without problems,...
by ds | May 11, 2013 | Administration
There are several sites regarding this issue, most of them tell you to set a group policy setting to enable the download from Windows Update if you are using a local WSUS server. But I also got an error 0x800f0906 when I set this. The only solution which has worked...
by ds | May 10, 2013 | Software
I saw this problem when listening to a WMA webstream for a few hours. The audio output suddenly stopped and CPU usage of audiodg.exe was very high. There are several ways so solve it: * (Disable all microphones) (Didn’t work in my case, I got a bluescreen...
by ds | May 8, 2013 | C# .Net
UPDATE: Please have a look at the additional notes at the bottom! With Dotfuscator, coming with Visual Studio Professional, you can protect your code against reverse-engineering (i.e. at least make it very hard to read). But, if you are using Visual Studio Setup...
by ds | May 5, 2013 | Administration
Problem: PhpMyAdmin is not accessible after you upgrade your Ubuntu distro from 12.10 to 13.04. The browser shows an error 500, the log files show errors like this: PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required...
by ds | May 2, 2013 | C# .Net
In your installer class of the service itself, use the event AfterInstall to start the service. After setup has finished, the service will start. public ProjectInstaller() { InitializeComponent(); AfterInstall += new InstallEventHandler(ProjectInstaller_AfterInstall);...
by ds | May 1, 2013 | Administration
This site provides a good tutorial for restoring lost Registry keys.