Category: Windows and Beyond

Windows so far has been a forte of ours. We have worked with it for a lot of years already. But as the versions go up, a lot of the “we used to see it here before” is a common occurrence. Let’s journey together into the magical windows world.

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How to Fix Windows 10 “Cannot Connect to Printer” – Error 0x0000011b

How to Fix Windows Cannot Connect to Printer

I have a case that a newly installed windows 10 pc, although already shared the 2 printers, the pc on the network cannot establish share.

The system says ‘Connect to Printer’ error.

What you can do is to go to registry editor,

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print

right click and create new DWORD 32 Bit

RpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled

right click and click Modify. it should be hexadecimal with 0

Next is to open the windows services and look for PrinterSpool

Then right click and then click RESTART

After that, you can now use File Explorer to add the printer remote thru the network.

Hope it helps

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Microsoft SQL Server Eating Lots of Hard Drive

Microsoft SQL Server Dump Files

I had a case recently about their server that have zero 0 space remaining in their drive C. i have seen this issue before and it involves the dump files collected every time the server is restarted.

The path to the dump files can be “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\Polybase\dump”

Another path is “X:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log”

Recently i have searched if there was a way to turn it off

Some have version folders

VersionPath
SQL Server 2019C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager15.msc
SQL Server 2017C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager14.msc
SQL Server 2016C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager13.msc
SQL Server 2014C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager12.msc
SQL Server 2012C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager11.msc

net start “SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)”

next i found is the data collector

USE msdb; GO EXEC dbo.sp_syscollector_disable_collector;

Hope this info help out a fellow traveller

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Win10 Cannot Connect to Shared Printer

Recently i encountered a problem that doesn’t allow me to add a shared printer. It seems to be new so it might have something to do with the windows update.

Then i found the solutions. Its to add a registry entry. here it is :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\RpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled to 0

Once you do this you can now continue.

Enjoy,

Coffee Cup

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Why is my hard disk empty? Working on Microsoft SQL Server project

Recently I have download Microsoft SQL Server for a small interesting project I was working. Then all of a sudden, my hard disk space became 0 in my Drive C.

Puzzled for a few days a encountered a blog post that featured a nifty little software that I will now keep in my software belt.

It shows you the disk size of each folder in your pc. Quite a good find. The name of the software is TreeSize Free version.

For the culprit, the folder is located at :

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\Polybase\dump

When I looked at the folder, it came to 91gb.

So just in case you are working on a project in Microsoft SQL Server, be sure that the hard disk space will be close to zero, unless you can clean the dump folder.

Hope it helps

Stay safe guys

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Acer Aspire 3 – Microphone not working

Hi guys, well, that’s not the whole story. Actually while using zoom I disabled the microphone by mistake.

So far after that day, I wasn’t able to use the microphone on my laptop.

Then at last I found a way to fix it. Actually another software that I was using gave me the idea on how.


Hope it helps

Coffee Cup

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Error 432. Setup has detected that unInstallShield is in use. Please close unInstallShield and restart setup.

Recently I purchased a new laptop and had tried to install a lot of my legacy software. One of them suddenly popped out a message saying ”
Error 432. Setup has detected that unInstallShield is in use. Please close unInstallShield and restart setup. “

  1. You need to be logged in as the computer’s Administrator.
  2. Delete an instance of the file IsUninst.exe from the C:\Windows directory. If the file cannot be deleted, you need to reboot the machine and try again.

I have included a picture to show where the file is located

Hope this helps.

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Windows cannot find “c:\…..\AcroRd32.exe”. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and try again.

This was recently a problem that I encountered and the first thought that came to my mind was to uninstall and re-install acrobat reader.

Try as I might, the error message persisted. Then I tried to look at the shortcut settings and still no answer.

Finally, I found the solution:

1- Close Reader

2- Hold down Windows key and press R on your keyboard, this will bring up Run dialogue box.

3- Type regedit in the run dialogue box and hit Enter, click Yes when User Account Control pop-up appears.

4- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options, delete the key AcroRd32.exe

5- Relaunch Reader

Note : just in case you are like me who didn’t find the Image File Execution Options, what I did in regedit was to use the ‘Find’ command.

After a few skips, I finally found it. I also removed an additional folder in the registry with the _info extension. True enough, after that, Acrobat reader is now working.

Hope you enjoyed

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Windows 10 : How to switch from VGA to HDMI on the same PC

On a windows 10 computer, sometimes you have an HDMI port and a VGA port. Normally, you only have 1 monitor. When you try to plug both ports together, windows guesses you have 2 monitors so when you scroll to the right, the mouse disappears.

Now if you remove the VGA cable you will see a black screen. The secret is the Windows+P key. When you press this button, the system automatically switches to HDMI port. Please note that this step would take around 10 seconds to kick-in.

At first I thought it did not work. But patience is truly a virtue.

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Teamviewer : Activated the black screen feature but is not working on windows 10

Recently, I have tried to combine both the portable version and the installed version. If you are an IT guy and you need to update a PC on your office mates office remotely, you need to hide what you are doing by clicking the black screen feature.

And as an experiment, I tried to remotely connect to my laptop using the portable version. And as it turns out, it is not working on the client side. It seems that when you activate it on the portable version, the installer for the video card does not kick in thus, people on the client side can see what you are really doing although on the server side (where the IT guys is working, he can see the tick box activated).

In this post I will include the picture on how to activate the black screen on Teamviewer.

Teamviewer Black Screen Opion
Settings that show how to set the black screen on the client side