Category Archive: Uncategorized

Apr 22

Resolving “STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE” after you make changes to your hard drive configuration

I’d heard that, unlike previous versions of Windows, a Vista installation could be moved to a new computer without any problems, and would just re-detect all the hardware and reconfigure itself. So when I got my new computer, I imaged my boot partition to the new hard drive (it was much bigger than my old …

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Apr 16

Logon Failure: The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer

The printer I use to connected to a domain computer, but the computer I print from is not on the domain, so I ran into this ugly error when I tried to map the printer: Logon Failure: The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer This occurs because the workgroup …

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Apr 08

Join an Active Directory domain and keep your local profile intact

Recently, I had to join a number of computers in a small office to a domain, but the users all had local profiles that they wanted to keep. Things were a mess – some people’s usernames were the Last name, first initial (the username format I’d chosen for the domain), some were using their full …

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