Tagged: Windows Registry

August 21, 2011

Review: Computer and Registry Cleaners

Review: Computer and Registry Cleaners. The winner in my opinion of this list is CCleaner. It normally only takes 10 minutes for an average computer. Everyone who I have used it with has said that they enjoy the enhanced performance after a reboot of using this.

January 28, 2011

Losing Windows 7 Shares, and my hair.

Apple – Support – Discussions – Losing Windows 7 Shares, and my hair. …. He solves his own issue:

OK, I solved it. I found an answer at http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/09/03/windows-7-nonpaged-pool-srv-error-2017 that details a registry change that makes windows 7 act more like a server.

Set the following registry key to ’1′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache

and set the following registry key to ’3′:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size

January 11, 2011

Keep Your Mac and Windows Boot Camp Clocks in Sync (via Your Mac Guy (and more))

Nice fix. I wonder if it still works?

If you manage dual-boot Macs, or even just have your own dual-boot Mac, you may have noticed the annoying tendency of your Mac clocks to be incorrect when you reboot from Windows into Mac OS. This occurs because the Windows internal clock uses the local time zone to manage its time while Mac OS internal clock uses GMT. As posted in various forums and sites, the solution is to modify the Windows Registry as follows. Launch regedit.exe. Navigate to … Read More

via Your Mac Guy (and more)

July 9, 2010

Add or Remove Programs: “Please wait while list is being populated” solution (via SeriouslyTrivial.com)

This is a problem that I have noticed as well. Glad there is a fix to it.

Suddenly, every time I ran the Add or Remove Programs on my Windows XP machine, the window would just say “Please wait while list is being populated…” and just stay that way. Well, after reading countless sites I finally found the solution here. Who is the culprit??? F’ckin Java!!! Basically, you just run RegEdit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Uninstall. Search for Java entries and look at the DisplayIcon V … Read More

via SeriouslyTrivial.com