Windows 7 is now in stores

Back in July, general availability for Windows 7 was announced to be forthcoming on October 22nd. The great Windows team led by Steven Sinofsky have delivered on that promise. Windows 7 is now in stores. All editions are now available for purchase from any and all reputable vendors. Be sure to check out the Windows …

Improved ASP JSON utility updated

Back in July of this year, I released an improved version of Tuğrul Topuz’s aspjson utility. Based on some feedback of my release, I decided to revisit the slowly growing list of unfixed issues in the original version. I have addressed all of them and included them with my own fixes. Download the ASPJSON 2.11 …

Fixing the Volume Shadow Copy service

After installing DHCP on Windows Server 2008 R2, you may start to see the following error message in the event logs : Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine RegOpenKeyExW(-2147483646,SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\Diag,…). hr = 0x80070005, Access is denied. Inspection of the detailed tab of the event log entry will show information about the process that …