Andy Kemp

I came across this error today when trying to Remote Desktop onto a windows XP PC I received and error saying that I could not connect due to the awgina.dll. Now I am not too clued up on what gina does what but I was convinced that the gina that should be loaded was msgina.dll. So I did some digging in the Registry. My first thought was to look in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and in there I saw a value for the gina location pointing to awgina.dll, change this to msgina.dll and reboot your PC and you should be able...

Some times it is quite handy to have the My Computer Icon renamed to the current logged on user and the computer name, it makes life a lot easier for when the user calls the helpdesk. You can ask them to minimise all windows and give you the information that is on the Icon, believe it or not some users have a hard time remembering their own username let alone their password. so a simple registry tweak will sort this one out for you: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} And change the LocalizedString to %Username% on %computername% ...

I was watching a couple of videos this lunch time that were on the BBC website about Windows 7 and one other them was highlighting the new Windows Live Essentials.  The Windows Live Essentials contains Windows Messenger, Windows Mail and the Live Photo Gallery. What they also announced what that Windows Live had partnered with facebook so that your statuses and photos on facebook could then be shared with your contacts within your MSN network. I have yet to try this out fully but it let me sign in to facebook from within Live Messenger and gave...

I have seen this on more than a handful of pc’s on the network where you have a users home drive (H: for example) is pointing to \\server\share\%username% but or some reason H:\ is pointing to \\server\share. Well the good news is that there is a simple fix to this one! there is a setting in the local policy of the computer, which can be set through GPO. All you need to do is enable the Wait for the network at computer startup and logon setting in: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\ If you are doing this for an individual computer you can...

I was recently trying to get on to the console's of my Windows Server 20003 servers using RDP, however for some reason it would not connect me to the console, each time I did a start run mstsc /console /v:servername I was logged onto the server with a separate session. I did a start run mstsc /? to bring up the RDP options and noticed that is now said /admin and not /console. It appears that this has changed since Service Pack 3 for XP and Service Pack 1 for Vista. Why would they change...

OK so I got the PFN_LIST_CORRUPT Blue screen again, rebooted and got this one! that is after the Dell engineer replaced my motherboard and RAM, well supposedly replaced my RAM.... took the suspect stick out and funnily enough my PC boots up OK   so who knows did he or didn't he replace my RAM??? From looking around at some forums and googling the error a lot of people point it to a driver issue. however in my case I do not think so. A lot of time a blue screen can be fixed by booting into safe mode and uninstalling...

Ever seen the above blue screen error message either during an XP Installtion or on an Installed PC? Switched my PC on at work this morning and had it!! done you jsut love those blue screens of death! Did a goodle on the error and it appears to be pointing to the Memory, changed the memory config.... moved one DIMM in to another slot etc.... but still got it! I think that it is more thank likely a hardware fault rather than Software as it is now happening during install! I have tried it with the on board graphics, PCIe graphics...