If you're getting an ASP error in your event logs reading "Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Application Pool 'AppPoolName' because of the following error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The data…
From time-to-time our clients ask us to recommend software that will solve a particular problem. This post will detail one such recommendation required by a chartered surveyor who needed to regularly print off large numbers of photographs in a uniform…
Here at Focused IT we regularly test our clients backup by performing a bare metal restore to dedicated hardware every three months to ensure it's going to be okay in the event of a disaster. Whilst this was working for…
One of the great new tools included in Windows 7 is the port query command line tool known as portqry.exe It allows you to query a specific TCP/IP port on a remote computer or server to see if it is…
We've always liked CutePDF as a quick way to create PDFs from any application but v2.8 by default installed the Ask Toolbar, urgh, a bit of research indicated that /no3d got rid of it. So we updated our installation routine…
Flash Player updates seem to come out all the time and we certainly don't advocate local administrative rights to users so we use a couple of batch files and Group Policy to keep machines up to date. Download WGET from…
It's important that your backups are stored offsite, which means it's important that they are encrypted. We used an article (How to encrypt backups and optionally the system disks on Windows Server 2008 and SBS 2008 and Windows Vista too)…
Trying to configure Wake-on-Lan on a batch of new HP Windows 7 PCs wasn't as straight forward as expected. There were 3 things that I needed to do in order for a scheduled batch file to wake them up in…
If Internet Explorer is insisting on 'hosting' Office documents for you when you'd rather have them open in their respective Office Application then you used to be able to change this in the File Associations Advanced Edit as per How…
Windows 7 Aero Snap (window docking) is a great feature which I now use all the time, but did you know you can dock windows using the keyboard? Instead of dragging a window to the side of the screen, try…