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Outlook 2003 extremely slow when attaching files to email messages
Monday, 19 Jan, 2009 – 17:30 | No Comment

Guys,
I am completely perplexed. Last week a handful of my PCs all came down with the same issue. Here’s what I know
1) Outlook 2003 complete comes to a complete …

Can I push updates, and packages from SpiceWorks to the computers on our domain?
Tuesday, 9 Dec, 2008 – 17:04 | No Comment

Mike,
Spiceworks doesn’t have the ability to push out software or patches at this point. Tabrez (Spiceworks) — Spiceworks Support — Reply

More here: …

Printer settings reset
Tuesday, 2 Dec, 2008 – 14:57 | No Comment

Windows/Microsoft Updates is most likely the guilty culprit. Your best bet is to never run any updates pertaining to Printer Drivers on a Print Server (or even on a workstation) …

Scanning Problems after upgrading to 3.0? this fixed it for me!
Tuesday, 25 Nov, 2008 – 23:38 | No Comment

Hi Harold,
Nope I sorted everything out. You guys did a really great job on the patches. I still have around 4 machine’s that give errors, but that seems to be a problem …

installing applications
Monday, 24 Nov, 2008 – 11:35 | No Comment

Are we able to push applications and patches through Spiceworks? Dennis5162 — Spiceworks 3.5 Beta Testing — Reply

Continue here: installing applications

3.2 Update and scanning
Thursday, 20 Nov, 2008 – 21:19 | No Comment

Could this be a database corruption?
It appears to be hanging right here in finder_ar.log:
——- VERSION INFO —
major_verion: 3
info: “”
svn_revision: “28383″
minor_version: 2
full_version: 3.2.28383
base_version: “3.2″
uuid: 77a84c90-8484-012b-d61d-0011856b5722
——- END VERSION INFO —
Hidden Traits/Emails: []
disabling ferret for …

svchost.exe memory usage during network scan
Wednesday, 19 Nov, 2008 – 6:38 | No Comment

I noticed that during network scan (With Both 3.2 and 3.5 beta I) the process “svchost.exe” (*) hogs up a lot of memory (867,724 KB physical, 811,564 virtual), then as soon as the scan …

Spiceworks will not pass 9% on network scan. (Same issue as with previous ver.)
Friday, 7 Nov, 2008 – 10:07 | No Comment

I had this issue a few months ago, but Spiceworks will not scan past 9 of them have had no hardware changed- at all). Our servers each have to be “trimmed” a lot because …

integration for software patching with secunia
Thursday, 6 Nov, 2008 – 19:02 | No Comment

I would love for this to happen I use Secunia PSI at home and knowing when a piece fo software is EOL or unsecure is great.
In the meantime does anyone know of any …

Downgrading Windows Vista to Windows XP Pro
Wednesday, 5 Nov, 2008 – 10:10 | No Comment

Maybe Windows Update has something under hardware, as a last resort? Dave O — Windows — Reply

Continue here: Downgrading Windows Vista to Windows XP …

Report that excludes redundant entries
Monday, 3 Nov, 2008 – 11:55 | No Comment

Hi,
I’m trying to run a report that will list what computers are missing a certain MS hotfix. The problem with the final report, though, is that every hotfix on every computer that is …

We just applied the newest hotfix from microsoft, KB 958644, to over 500 servers
Tuesday, 28 Oct, 2008 – 22:23 | No Comment

We just applied the newest hotfix from microsoft, KB 958644, to over 500 servers and it is not showing up but on just a few servers. Why is it not showing up on all …