Are you as tired as I of the Aurora logon background every time you logon to Windows Vista, its just so darn depressing.
Well the nice people at Stardock to the rescue with “LogonStudio for Vista”, install and select your new logon background – that’s it clean and simple (is likely to work also on Windows 7).
Get it here;
http://www.download.com/LogonStudio-Vista/3000-2072_4-10696252.html
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So, I had this server where I enabled Shadow Copy on the D: volume, and I could create snapshots just fine however the scheduled shadow copy jobs never ran. If I looked in “Control Panel”, “Scheduled Tasks” I could see that the job had never run, and if I tried to edit the schedule I got an error “0x8007000d: The data is invalid“. I suspected the scheduler to be the culprit, but after trying whatever I could think of and google I ended up with nada..
In the end, all I had to do was to delete one single file and viola everything works.
What Microsoft claim is that I enabled Shadow Copy before running dcpromo on a memberserver, and that thus the service (Shadow Copy) would try to use an old local account (which is deleted as the server is promoted) to schedule the jobs and subsequently fail. This in my case however was not true, however as the server was installed in Russia over our wan lines the thing might be that the server had not completed a full replication before I enabled Shadow Copy..
A Desktop shortcut;
You could also simply create a desktop shortcut linking to
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow
This would force a Windows Updates detection to run upon clicking the shortcut, somewhat easier than launching the website.
The script you would need locally could look something like this;
@Echo off
Echo Stopping Windows Update Service
net stop wuauserv
Echo Starting Windows Update Service
net start wuauserv
Echo Forcing Windows Update detection
%windir%system32wuauclt.exe /detectnow
LogonStudio for Vista – change logon background
OS, UtilityDebugging Shadowcopy Scheduling
OS, SecurityIn the end, all I had to do was to delete one single file and viola everything works.
What Microsoft claim is that I enabled Shadow Copy before running dcpromo on a memberserver, and that thus the service (Shadow Copy) would try to use an old local account (which is deleted as the server is promoted) to schedule the jobs and subsequently fail. This in my case however was not true, however as the server was installed in Russia over our wan lines the thing might be that the server had not completed a full replication before I enabled Shadow Copy..
Anyhow, the solution can be found here;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822904
And to break it down, all I needed to do was to delete the one file that was in;
%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-1-5-18(in my case there was only one, but according to the MS site you should only delete files that begin with “d42”.
Windows Update – script it
Scripting, Scripts, Security, WebSo you need to fiddle a bit with Windows Update, the reasons can be many;
Well, for help on how to launch it on different remote machines I suggest you visit Dave’s Blog;
http://skatterbrainz.blogspot.com/2009/01/script-code-batch-running-wuauclt.html
A Desktop shortcut;
You could also simply create a desktop shortcut linking to
This would force a Windows Updates detection to run upon clicking the shortcut, somewhat easier than launching the website.
The script you would need locally could look something like this;
I also stumbled across some neat commands to try in case you are debugging Windows Update (update not working);
http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/windows-xp-support/279270-automatic-update-not-started-error-1058-a.html
PPS. Vista/Win2008 users beware.
Stopping services etc under windows vista/2008/7 require the scripts to be run as an administrator.