Blog Archive - Microsoft

How to fix "Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system." 1) Boot to Safe Mode.Read more...

Free Tools for Windows Everyone seems to have their list of free Windows applications they can't do without, and here's ours. All of these are free for the download and their authors deserve a serious hat tip for all of their excellent work. We list them in alphabetical order:Read more...

Cloning a Windows 7 hard drive Recently when cloning a hard drive with Windows 7 installed on it, we ran into some problems.Read more...

Easily disable ClearType in Windows 7 Because we're sure some of you who adore ClearType will ask, yes, we tried it for well over a month and just couldn't get used to staring at what looked like (to us) blurry text all day. Fortunately, we found this:Read more...

This operation cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine failures. And now! It's time to play..."Guess what the error message means!"Read more...

Using the Microsoft Loopback Adapter Being the programmer that he is, Mango has set up a few test servers on his laptop. While we have the greatest confidence in our software, we like to subject ourselves to our efforts first, before a production server.Read more...

Words of Wisdom from Bobsentme In case anyone is wondering, to open the services.msc console for a remote server from a command line is:Read more...