Windows Vista

I look after a Windows 2003 server at work and had the problem where I forgot to enable the GPO 'Add the Administrators security group to roaming user profiles'. I've searched around and couldn't find a fix that didn't involve recreating all user profiles.

I actually worked out a way to fix this today without taking ownership of the folder, or recreating all the profiles. Here's how you can do it.

1. Log on to a machine as the problem user

2. Browse to you network share with the users profiles, usually something like \\***YOURSERVER***\Profiles$\

3. Right click on the users profile folder, go to the 'Security' tab and add the 'Administrators' group and give them 'Full Control'

4. Job done!

You MAY have to make standard users an Administrator temporarily to browse to the profile share but you can set it back after. Read more »

Download the latest Antec Fusion driver from here...

http://www.antec.com/download/Fusion_driver_070507.zip
http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/index.php?page=support_faqDownload

Once installed navigate to the installation folder.

C:\Program Files\Antec\VFD or under Windows 7 x64 C:\Program Files (x86)\Antec\VFD

Right click on the VFD.exe application and set compatibility mode to Windows XP SP2. Read more »

I was having some dreaded BSOD problems recently and managed to narrow my problem down to my USB device by doing the following so hopefully this will be useful for you too!

I didn't want to bother with using the command line so this method gives you a quick idea of the problem and you only need to install one tool. Read more »

I recently treated myself to a little Acer Aspire One netbook. Its a great little piece of kit but after I eventually installed Windows XP on there I noticed it crawls! This is because the SSD has terribly slow write speeds. You can get around this by making a few tweaks to XP so I have outlined the steps I took to improve things. This should help with any other netbooks that have a cheap slow SSD drive as well. Good luck! Read more »