Category Archives: windows

Can I remove winsxs on windows server 2008? It is eating up my hard disk

In case you ever need it, I followed this advice, and it cut the winsxs folder just about in half.  Everything seems to be working fine.  All that I lost was the ability to roll back to a previous Service … Continue reading

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Convert Apache2 certificate to IIS (pfx) format

Sometimes you purchase a certificate for Apache or Nginx and end up eventually installing it in IIS as well. This happens a lot with widcard certificates which seem to propagate. To import a certificate with key for IIS, you need … Continue reading

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Antivirus that won’t slow down your computer

I have been looking for a good antivirus program that will not slow down your computer. I finally found one – http://www.immunet.com. This FREE antivirus program is very lightweight and works well even on older PC’s without a lot of … Continue reading

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iSCSI target not bound after reboot. Server 2003

I wondered about this one for a while. Every time this certain 2003 server was rebooted, I had to manually bind the target. How annoying. Today I found out why. Recently, I had converted the iSCSI disk to a windows … Continue reading

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Cannot connect to The server may be using another port or different secure sockets layer setting.

Before you try anything else, just restart IIS. It worked for me. Of course, I tried a lot of other things because nobody mentioned this, and it was a production file server at a small business and I didn’t want … Continue reading

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