On some of my machines I noticed that I was having trouble upgrading to the latest service pack for some of the products I have installed (e.g. Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, etc.).  It wasn’t a critical problem and I didn’t have the time to spend on tracking it down at that time so [...]

I was doing some cleanup on my server and ran across the ctfmon.exe process.  I’ve investigated this process before and at that time there didn’t seem to be definitive information available on it.  At one point there was even a virus that was being installed on people’s machines posing as ctfmon.exe. When I searched today, I [...]

In addition to the various desktop and laptop computers in my household, I also manage a couple servers, one of which runs Windows Small Business Server 2003, which is located in my garage.  Typically I connect to it using Remote Desktop Connection using the /console switch so that I can manage it as if I [...]