Another day, another dollar

Author: , December 24th, 2009

Went to bed very early last night because both of us were just done. Will be visiting my trader client at 11am to try to fix his Ninja Trader application on WinBlows. Need to stop at bank and cleaners and Amish market. Hope the roads aren’t too crazy today. Since it is a whopping 14 […]

How to kill a program on MS Terminal Server

Author: , November 24th, 2009

Control-alt-insert or right click on the task bar for the task manager.

How To: Upgraded to Parallels 5, Got BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Author: , November 18th, 2009

After upgrade from Parallels Desktop version 4 to version 5 Windows XP virtual machine fails to boot. IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Blue Screen of Death is displayed. Reason: The IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) happens due to multiple CPUs assigned to the virtual machine. The Fix: Decrease the amount of CPUs to 1: [code] Shut down your […]

How to fix broken CD/DVD drives in WinBlows

Author: , October 7th, 2009

I ran into this craziness today and learned this trick from Dean at Dell support: In regedit, navigate to the following hive: [code] * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE * SYSTEM * CurrentControlSet * Control * Class * {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} [/code] This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in […]