You might have seen many forums, blogs, and papers talking about the failure of Windows 7 in identifying the laptop/notebook batter life and few people also alleged that Windows 7 causing damage to their PC batteries.
“Nope, it is not the case. Batteries are really in semi-degraded state in reported cases and Windows 7 is reporting it accurately“, Says Microsoft. You can read the Complete Story from this “Windows Engineering Blog“.
Microsoft Saying that it’s a feature 
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Sitaram Pamarthi
You might get subjected error message when you run some script/vbapplication which interacts with Office products like word, excel, and Outlook through a cron/scheduled job. The reason for failure here is, problem with DCOM permissions. To resolve this issue, follow the below steps.
- Go to the Start-Run menu item.
- Type in “DCOMCNFG” and hit enter.
- This should load the “Component Services” MMC (you can also load from Administrative Tools – Component Services”
- Expand “Component Services”
- Expand “Computers”
- Select ”My Computer”
- Select the “DCOM Config” item
- Select the “Microsoft Excel Application” item.
- Right click and select Properties
- Select the Security Tab
- Under “Launch and Activation Permissions” select the “Customize” option.
- Click the “Edit” button
- Click the “Add” button to add the account using which you are running the script/vb application
This should solve your problem. This solution works for all Office applications like Excel, word, and outlook as well. Only thing you need to do is, select respective office application properties instead of Excel in above procedure.
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Sitaram Pamarthi
Sometimes you might see error like below while starting “Counter logs” tasks from perfmon and additionally you will see Event ID 2003 with source “Sysmonlog” in Application Event viewer and Event ID 7024 with source “Service Control Manager” in System event viewer.
The test1 log or alert has not started. Refresh the log or alert list to view current status, or see the application event log for any errors. Some logs and alerts might require a few minutes to start, especially if they include many counters or they contain counters to be collected from a remote system that is no longer on the network. For further information see the troubleshooting section in the online help.
If the above mentioned symptoms matches your problem, then it can be fixed by following the below steps.
- Open regedit and navigate to “HKLMMACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesSysmonLogLog Queries” registry key and go to permissions
- Grant full permissions to “Network Service” and propagate them to child objects.
- Now try to start your counter log job; it should start now without any issues.
Hope this helps you…
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Sitaram Pamarthi
Tags: problems with perfmon, unable to start counter logs, Error starting counter logs
When I was with my old organization, we used to deploy operating system with the help of Ghost — an imaging technique. So, after completing the imaging process, we used to run newsid.exe to make the new installation unique in environment.
But surprisingly, the author of newsid has taken a decision to retire that decade old utility. Believe me, it is no more available at any MS websites. MS suggesting it’s customers to user sysprep instead of newsid as sysprep does lot more things which newsid will not.
You can refer to below URL to know reasons behind it’s retirement.
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx
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Sitaram Pamarthi