In our environment, a particular PC was having entirely random BSODs. It was initially thought to be bad RAM but replacing it with known good sticks did nothing. We started thinking that a driver could be the culprit: it could trigger the BSOD but be buried deep enough that the bugcheck report doesn’t point to it. That’s where Microsoft’s driver verifier came into play and how we discovered that it was the Citrix USB driver.
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Re-indexing Windows Search
Occasionally a PC’s Windows Search index can get corrupted. The symptoms can be as follows:
- Outlook can’t find some or all messages,
- the start menu’s search function is unable to find documents, applications or contacts,
- the search indexer (SearchIndexer.exe) will hog the CPU.
Rebuilding the index is easy:
Continue reading “Re-indexing Windows Search”Response Transforms
Creating a “response transform” is very helpful when repackaging software. You create a response transform by running certain software which allows stepping through the app install and subsequently captures all the choices made for that install.
A former employer had an AdminStudio license and I used one feature of InstallShield that allowed creation of response transforms almost exclusively. Nowadays that piece lives by itself: InstallShield Tuner. Here’s a way you can get it.
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