Windows was unable to complete the format - error message

Sometimes when you get error you recognize the solution easily, and sometimes you don't even if the solution is easy.

"Getting error like Windows was unable to complete the format l" - looks like a piece of cake, but some people had sleepless nights because of this error."

This error occurs when you format a magneto-optic disk with your windows operating system as FAT. Just remember that whether you have formated this disk earlier with any other operating system or any disk utility. If yes then reformat this disk with NTFS and then with FAT and if no then you disk needs a change.

Unable to install Windows Update

In Windows XP sometimes users get problems in installing windows updates. This is a problem of a corrupted file called IUCTL.dll

To correct this file and troubleshoot the problem follow steps as given below:-

1. Go to your system drive (in my case C:) and open WUTEMP folder
2. Delete all the files inside it.
3. Go to Program files
4. Display all hidden file and folders
5. There will be a folder named WindowsUpdates
6. Delete all content inside it except the V4 folder
7. Now open V4 folder and delete all the content except iuhist.xml
8. Start run and type
9. Restart Windows regsvr32 /u C:\WINNT\System32\IUCTL.dll
10. Done

How to Connect Internet in Windows Vista

Connect to Internet in Windows Vista

This is a tutorial on how to connect to Internet when using Windows Vista. Connection to Internet in Windows Vista can be done by following some easy steps. All the softwares needed to create the connection are inbuilt into Vista Operating System. We need only a connection to out ISP in order to create an Internet Connection in Windows Vista.

There are 3 ways how you can connect to your Internet in Vista

Wireless
Broadband
Dial-up

What we need?

• An Internet Connection to the ISP

How to Connect to Internet?

Go to Control Panel --> Go to Network and Internet --> Go To Network and Sharing Center --> Click Set up a connection or Network --> click Connect to Internet

Unable to install Windows Vista SP1 ( Service Pack 1 )

Are you not able to upgrade to Windows Vista SP1

Windows Vista SP1 ( Service Pack 1 ) has been released is a story now. I have seen many guys not able to upgrade or install Windows Vista SP1. These admins face a lot of problems when installing SP1. I have listed out some reasons why these guys are facing such trouble when installing Windows Vista SP1.

1. Disk Space Requirement
The administrators must know the disk space requirements when installing the service pack.


The disk requirements for SP1 depend on what method you use to install SP1.

Installation method	Required disk space
Windows Update	• x86-based: 1,200 MB • x64-based: 1,500 MB
Downloading SP1 from the Microsoft website	• x86-based: 2,500 MB to 5,450 MB • x64-based: 4,100 MB to 7,850 MB
Integrated installation	15 GB




2. Check that no USB device is plugged into the system
3. No service pack has been installed earlier into the system
4. Laptop performing installation must be connected to AC Power
5. Insure your system doesn't have any corrupted file. Check it with chkdsk.exe
6. Be a pro and try not to install Windows Vista SP1 on a different OS like XP, 2003 , 95 and even on Linux.

BitLocker Multiple Partitions Lock not working

Unable to Lock Multiple Partitions in BitLocker

To improve local security access to a Operating System, System Admins do lock the hard drive partitions by BitLocker encryption. With Windows Vista , we were able to to lock only one partition of the hard drive but we were unable to to encrypt multiple partitions.

Have not you seen multiple partitions being locked by Bitlocker in Vista ? And of course you are unable to do so. The one point that you guys are leaving behind is Windows Vista SP1.

With Windows Vista SP1 we got an ability to lock multiple partitions on a system. Just check out your Service Pack and I hope this will help you out.

Unable to upgrade to Windows Vista

Upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista

If you are unable to upgrade to Windows Vista Operating System, you must be performing any step wrong during the Windows Vista upgrade process. Before the upgrade of your Windows operating system you must check some prerequisite defined for Vista Upgrade. I have compiled a list of such prerequisite and hope its useful for you if you are unable to upgrade to Vista from Windows XP.

Prerequisite before upgrade to Windows Vista -

• Check that you are upgrading the correct version. ie from Windows XP 32 bit to Vista 32 bit
• Check the Hardware Compatibility when upgrading Vista- By running Vista upgrade Advisor
• Make sure you have Windows XP SP2 installed on your system

Make sure that you have completed the above defined checklist before upgrading to Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System.

Automatic Device Discovery - Network Monitoring Tool

Tool which automatic discover device on network

The network monitoring tool about which I want to speak today is OpManager by ManageEngine. This tool helps system and network administrators to monitor their network effectively. One good feature that I liked about this tool was its automatic device discovery feature. With the use of the automatic device discover feature an admin can search for all active devices on a particular IP subnet.

Important-

A Point to note here is that, with OpManager you can discover a single device , multiple devices from an IP subnet or import devices in the form of a CSV file by determining the IP addresses in the CSV file.

This network monitoring tool is Multi platform and can be installed either on Windows or Linux. A feature which I know that you won't like about this tool is that its free only to monitor 10 computer and if you want more out of it , its gonna cost you a bit. But atleast you can automatic discover 10 computer or devices for free and monitor them effectively. Good if you have a small organization.

How to change log size in event viewer

Change log size in event viewer

When the event viewer log file is full, their is of course a need to change log size in event viewer. This log size determines how much data can be stored in the log files and whether the data should be overwritten or not.

View this tutorial to know how to change log size in event viewer

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How to change log file path in event viewer

Log file in event viewer contain logs relating to application, security, system, dns and directory service. These log files must be backed up properly in a corporate environment. The path of the log file is fix on all Windows Systems ie %systemroot%/system32/config/"filename"

To change the logging path of these log files all you have to do is to modify registry.

Here's a tutorial on How to change log file path in event viewer

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Audio Playing Without No Video or Display error Troubleshooting

Audio Playing Without No Video or Display

Sometimes it may have happened to you after you might have downloaded any video file from internet but only the audio is working without no display or video playing. This Problem has a very simple solution.

People get into this trouble because of .avi extension file which they have downloaded from the internet and are trying to play that file into a media player without the support of that file extension. Just check out the file extension to solve this issue.

Now the next you need to download VLC media player, because it supports playing .avi extension files.

Sometimes it's so simple to troubleshoot a problem, right!


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How to send a console message from Computer Management Console

Send message from Computer Management Console

Many times we need to send a message to users who are logged on any other remote computer, for some maintenance issues or any thing else. There are many ways for informing a user like net meeting or any other chat software but these software doesn't solve the issue completely. Why? because either the user takes these messages lightly or sometimes doesn't even try to take any message.

So their must be a proper mechanism so that the message sent to the user must flash on his screen, to let him know about any issue.

To sent this kinda warning or information messages you will need to open your computer management console


Go to Start --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management

In Computer Management Select "Action" from the menu bar and select "All tasks" --> "Send Console Messages"

Click "Add"
Type the name of the recipient computer
Click O.K

Type your message in your message box and click send.

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Start or Stop a service remotely

To start on stop a service on a remote computer you must be connected to the remote computer. When you are connected to the remote computer you can start or stop any service like telnet on that Windows machine. If you don't know how to connect to a computer remotely - read this (how to connect to a remote computer)

Why to start or stop a service remotely ?

Theirs no reason specifically for this , only why people do this is because they don't want to walk to the remote computer or the remote computer is quite far away or its a server sitting in some locked room.

After You have connected to a computer or server remotely through Computer Management Console

Expand Service and Applications

Select Services

Now in the right pane start or stop any service you want, on the remote computer.

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How to Connect a Remote Computer to Manage Remotely

System Administrator or Computer Operators need to connect to remote computers running Windows to manage them. Connecting to a computer remotely saves time of the computer operator. Managing Computer remotely can also be a nice trick for some guys.


The process I am going to explain not only connect a remote computer to your local computer but also allows you to manage various services like event viewer, shared folders, users and groups, performance logs and alerts, device manager, disk defragmentation and start or stop any service remotely. Lets see how this is done -


Go to Start --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management

In Computer Management Select "Action" from the menu bar and select "Connect to another computer"

Type the IP address of the remote computer you want to manage and select O.K

Now you are connected to a remote computer via computer management tool locally.

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Persistent Static IP Route in Windows

If you don't know how to add static IP route in windows operating system I will prefer you to read this tutorial. "How to add static route"

Persistent routes are needed because the routes which are not persistent are removed from the Windows operating system once the OS is rebooted. So in order to preserve the routes we have to add persistent routes in the system by a command.

#command
route add 192.168.1.5 mask 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.1 -p

The "-p" option denotes that this route is persistence in nature.


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How to delete Static IP Route

To delete a static IP Route which either you have added or is previously defined type the following command.

#command
route delete 10.0.0.0

The command above will delete the static route "10.0.0.0" in your system.

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How to add static IP route in Windows?

Static IP Route in Windows are those routes which are added manually into the system. To add static routes in the Windows Operating system is done by the use of a command "Route add".

#command
Route add 192.168.1.5 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.1


In the above example we have added a static route for 192.168.1.5 IP address via 192.168.1.1 gateway , 255.255.255.255 tell that its a host route (a route for a specific host)

Please note that the route added above are note persistent in nature they will be removed once the system is rebooted.

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Start Security Logging on a Server or Computer

I hope that you know what is security logs before reading further. In order to start security logging on your domain controller server, domain or client computer , you need to open the group policy object editor of the object(domain, dc , client pc) , where you want to start security logging.

The Path where you can edit or start securtity logging

In the GPO --> Computer Configuration --> Windows Settings --> Security Settings --> Local Policies --> Audit Policy

Now in the right pane you will find all the audit policies that you want to edit or start --> just double click them and change your settings

Don't forget to Refresh you GP (Group Policy in short)

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What is Security Logs in event viewer

People need to access various objects in a computer like printers, files or folders and many more. When this access is made on servers you need some mechanism to track your users access on the server. By password you can only authenticate a user but you might need to authorize a user to perform certain tasks in a computer or your server.What if the user is accessing more than what you are giving him.


That's why you need some mechanism to track that access and that's done by security logs. By default security logs are enable on your system, domain controller or you domain. But still you have to enable security logging of multiple objects in a computer via group policy.


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"Your Security log is full" Error message - a solution

The error that your security log is full occurs when the security log of your event viewer has reached its maximum storage capacity. In order to fix this problem you have to clear the security logs of your event viewer.

Make sure you have saved your security logs before clearing them.

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Clear security logs

Why Clear Security Logs ?

Sometimes Security logs in event viewer have a fixed size, when this size is full further logging into the server or a computer is not available so in order to start relogging one needs to clear current security events.


To clear Security logs.

Go to Start --> Run --> compmgmt.msc

Select event viewer

Select security --> right click --> select "Clear all events"

Be sure that you have already saved your security logs in a file.

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