Category: Windows

  • Error 8007051a on Windows update

    I recently tried to download and install a few Windows 7 updates, but the auto-updater kept aborting the process with the error number “8007051a”. There was no particularly descriptive error message. At first I thought that it was just some server that could not be reached. But when it still didn’t work after days, I began…

  • “Atlantis: The Lost Tales” on Windows 7

    We’re writing the year 1997. Small Ginchen is about fifteen years old, when “Cryo Interactive” release the first game of the “Atlantis” series. We had a PlayStation 1, and someone gave us a few games for it – including “Atlantis”. It wasn’t particularly comfortable to play an adventure game with the control pad, but I…

  • Windows XP filesharing again …

    Sometimes Windows can really drive you crazy … It hadn’t been too long since I had managed to make my shared files accessible to everyone on the network without entering a password, but now it was again broken, although I hadn’t changed any settings since then. Again, I was prompted for username and password when…

  • Windows XP: Filesharing without password

    Each time I reinstall Windows (which thanks to good care only happens every few years in my case), I have to struggle with setting up the stupid Windows file sharing afterwards. The problem is that Windows will allow only logged-in users to access shared files. So when anyone tries to access them, he will always…

  • Expression search under Windows XP

    I just wanted to use the Windows search function in order to find “a word or phrase in the file”. No chance! It has now happened to me several times that no files were listed at all, although I knew that my search expression was inside one of the files. Today I finally started searching…