Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category

Removing Dell Wallpaper on a Windows 2003 R2 Server

Monday, May 12th, 2008

>компютри втора употребаe working on a client site recently with a brand new Dell Poweredge 2950 Server with Windows Server 2003 R2 pre-installed by Dell we came across an annoying setting that comes with the pre-installation and interferes with the ease of connecting via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).
 This setting causes the a picture of the […]

How to restart a Windows XP machine on RDP

Monday, October 1st, 2007

At Techita we are frequently involved in projects with small and medium sized organisations.
Due to the size of these organisations often the network infrastructure available is limited as a result of smaller budgets than their larger competitors. One side effect of this reduced budget is that our clients sometimes need hardware and software to function in […]

Compaq Evo N610C, N600C, N600: a disk read error occurred when installing a new hard drive

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

We recently came across an issue when attempting to install a non HP/Compaq issue hard drive on a Compaq N600c Laptop, there seems to be little in the way of advice for this problem so here is our solution.
The Problem
After installing a new hard drive into the laptop and inserting the Windows XP SP2 CD […]

How to disable Windows 2003 Server Shutdown Event Tracker Message

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Microsoft Windows has a feature which enables the operating system to record information about why the machine is going to be shut down or in the event of an unexpected shut down; why it was shut down.
This functionality is called the Shutdown Event Tracker. The feature is turned off by default in Windows XP Home […]