There’s a lot of things that go on under the covers of a domain joined computer that you just don’t realise most of the time. One of the recent things I was involved in today was the investigation of a client network that had slow internet. Here’s how the problem was investigated. From the users desktop – see exactly how the problem manifests itself. For … [Read more...]
Desktop Icons don’t work anymore
My laptop is the subject of a lot of different software. I use it every day to do many things and often trial software on it. Over the last few weeks maybe more, however I have noticed a problem with it. I’ve noticed that the icons on my desktop simply stop responding… everything else works, but you can’t select or click on anything on my desktop. At … [Read more...]
How to analyse a Blue Screen of Death
Analysing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crash is not for the feint hearted. I did some training with Microsoft a few years back that showed me how to do it, but to be honest, I so rarely do it these days that I’m a bit rusty. My laptop however has had increasing issues over the past week or so and has had a couple of BSOD’s that I figured I’d “get around to looking … [Read more...]
Terminal Server “The requested session access is denied” when you try to login
I was working on this issue today with one of our team. A client reported that they could not login to their Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server from their iPad. He is using iTap on his iPad. The error message we kept getting was “The requested session access is denied”. We verified that we could access the Terminal Server / Remote Desktop server using our … [Read more...]
Error 1315 when removing D-Link D-ViewCam
I’ve got a few D-Link cameras around my home and home office, and I’ve played with different software along the way to use them for recording external views from home for security purposes. Recently however I moved the recording functions into my QNAP NAS and therefore have no need for the D-Link software on my computer. When I attempted to remove the D-Link … [Read more...]