Windows Issues

Windows Server 2012 Prompts For A Restart When Installing Wsus Or Rds

PROBLEM

Adding the Remote Desktop Services role or the Windows Server Update Services role fails with the error:

The operation cannot be completed, because the server that you specified requires a restart.

Restarting the server provides no solution.

SOLUTION

The solution is to grant the ’log on as a service’ right to some addition built in accounts. Start the Group Policy Management Console on your management PC (see the Remote Server Administration Tools download page at Microsoft).

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Audio Cds Wont Play

Problem

An audio CD isn’t recognised when inserted into the CD Drive and when you click on the drive icon a message saying “incorrect function” appears.

Solution

The cause of the problem seems to be when you have more than one overlying driver for the CD. That is, you have more than one installed program trying to add it’s own software driver overlay, eg, a CD or DVD media creator and a program enabling accessing to Mac format discs, etc. Disabling one of these drivers should get things working. (In the specific case I found both DataViz MacOpener and Roxio Easy Media Creator running. Disabling the MacOpener driver provided full access to Audio CDs again. This driver could be enabled temporarily when it’s needed.)

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Close Unresponsive Apps Automatically

Normally, unresponsive programs need to be closed manually by using Windows Task Manager. This is accessed using the “CTRL + ALT +DELETE” command, then highlighting the relevant application & clicking “End Task”. However, you can configure your computer to close the unresponsive program automatically.

Follow these steps to configure windows registry to autoend unresponsive tasks:

- Close all open programs, then click your “Start” button on bottom left of your screen.

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Changing The Default Keyboard Layout At Logon

If you use a different keyboard layout to the standard QWERTY keyboard you may still be trying to type in your password in the QWERTY layout before Windows loads your personal settings and you are able to use the layout you like.

This is because Windows stores the keyboard layout setting per user account. To change the default keyboard layout that is used at the logon screen (eg, when switching to a Dvorak keyboard layout) edit the Regestry key

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