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Event ID 27
I was getting Event ID 27 on a server. The error read: Time Provider NtpClient: The response received from domain controller <host dns name> is missing the signature. The response may have been tampered with and will be ignored. This sounds likes a scary message, with warnings that the response has been tampered with, but like many messages it just means that there was some glitch and the servers aren’t syncing correctly anymore. I found the solution at EventID.net, and it’s pretty simple. Just open a command prompt and run this command: w32tm /resync /rediscover After that the time synced
Security Center Could Not Change Your Automatic Updates Settings
After removing a virus from a Windows XP computer, I got this message when I tried to turn on Automatic Updates: “Security Center could not change your Automatic Updates settings.” Viruses usually leave their little hooks behind after you uninstall them, disabling the tools that you need to fight them. So thanks to this page and this page, I found out how to turn Automatic Updates back on after the computer was clean of any more viruses. It’s all about registering some DLLs that got unregistered. Click Start, select Run and type: regsvr32 wuapi.dll regsvr32 wuaueng.dll regsvr32 atl.dll regsvr32 wucltui.dll
AVG Install/Uninstall Error
Over the past year I’ve been uninstalling AVG and replacing it with Microsoft Security Essentials. Free antivirus is always a shifting topic; it seems like they all stop the same viruses, and they all let the same ones get through (hello, FakeAntivirus scam program, is there anyone who can stop you from installing)? But I’ve settled for now on MSE; I like that it’s lightweight and the interface doesn’t get in your face or try to get you to upgrade. As I’ve been uninstalling AVG, though, I’ve been running into the bug where an error pops up during the uninstall.
Fatal Error C0000034 in Windows 7
This week Windows 7 Service Park 1 started being pushed out on Automatic Updates. On one hand, I think this is a good thing, because it forces people to update who otherwise never might. On the other hand, I’ve been getting a lot of call from folks this week who are inconvenienced by the update, just because it takes so long to install it. There’s the initial install, then you reboot, and then it goes through a whole secondary install that can take 15 minutes or half an hour. And these are people who have come into the office in
