Windows 7 Support Has Ended
As of January 14, 2020, Windows 7 is no longer receiving security and software updates. Users will be warned with this popup: Continuing to run Windows 7 without updates puts …
Windows 7 Slow Updating
Windows 7 updating will take forever on a fresh install or if you haven’t updated in a while. This is covered in many online articles but I’m needing it often …
Manually Determine User’s Profile Path
If you can log on as a user, you can run echo %UserProfile% to get the correct profile path. But if you are logged on as another user, or even …
Can’t RDP to Lenovo Windows 7 Machine
I was setting up a new Lenovo M93p desktop using the OEM install of Windows 7 Pro x64. After joining the computer to a domain, as soon as I tried …
Isolate a Svchost.exe Process in Task Manager
On my Windows 7 SP1 x64 workstation, I had a svchost.exe process that kept growing in size. In Task Manager its Commit Size was up to 2.5GB before I rebooted. …
Reset the Windows 7 System Tray Icons
Every so often, my system tray icons lose their pictures, usually because the server that they point to was offline for a while. Then I have to go hunting for …
Red X’s on Network Shares, UAC Prompts
My Windows 7 desktop was showing red X’s next to each mapped network drive. Clicking on the drive let me browse the files, but the Red X remained.
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Resolves Network Dropouts
A few months back, I purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. From the beginning, I had frequent issues with applications crashing due to lost connections to …
Activate Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK Key – GUI Method
In spite of what it says in MSKB article 929826, and in spite of what I wrote in a previous blog article, it is possible to activate Windows 7 Enterprise …
IE8 No such interface supported
I hate it when this happens. Under Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 was giving consistent messages when JavaScript tried to open a new window: "No such interface supported." Debugging mode …