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Cannot enable automatic updates service

After coming across a second computer that issues such as: hidden system restore, automatic updates/BITS disable, and windows antivirus ’10. I finally decided to research this problem and find a fix.

Well after preforming the common task: malware/virus/trojan/rootkit scans, search the registry for these keys or something in this nature:

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Services)
ImagePath changed to: %fystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
Start changed to: 0x00000004 (4) — disabled

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\wuauserv (Automatic Updates)
ImagePath changed to: %fystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
Start changed to: 0x00000004 (4) — disabled

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Services)
ImagePath changed to: %fystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
Start changed to: 0x00000004 (4) — disabled

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\wuauserv (Automatic Updates)
ImagePath changed to: %fystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
Start changed to: 0x00000004 (4) — disabled

Notice that there’s and “f” instead of an “S.” Preform the character swap for each key that has this problem. If you come across the problem about “error writing the value new contents,” click the key you want to modify, go to Edit> Permissions, then give administrator “Full Control.” Once you’ve completed this fire up services.msc and start up BITS, Alerter (There are 3 services you need to run in order to get the windows update page to work and I believe alerter was one of them). and Automatic updates.

This should conclude it.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: I mentioned the system restore tab gone so here’s the fix:

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion\
SystemRestore.
If a “DisableSR” value doesn’t exist, go to the Edit menu, select New, DWORD value, and create the value.
Set the value to 1 to disable System Restore or 0 to enable System Restore.
The DisableSR value is set to 0

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Customize Gmail! FTW

Customize Gmail! FTW

I never realized that we were able to change Gmail’s colors occording to our likings.¬¨‚Ć We all knew about the ‘themes’, but this takes it to a whole new level.

The only dissapointment is that you are unable to customize the colors within an openned email. 🙁 Fix it!

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Ti-89 2nd Order Diff Equs program, yeah it sucks…

Ti-89 2nd Order Diff Equs program, yeah it sucks…

Screenshots:

Info:
Basically designed for 2nd order differential equations. I’ll continue to try and add 1st orders if I get more time.

This calculates %O.S., Ts and Tp.

Download:
http://dudewheresmycar.org/school/ece309.89p
or
http://dudewheresmycar.org/school/ece309.zip

/****Notes****/

I’ve tried two different TI program editors for Windows and enjoyed Daisuke-Edit‘s the most. Although both his and TIGCC IDE, the other candidate, have a virtual TI integration, I found that using TIGCC IDE was easier to send code to the virtual/real calculator than Daisuke-Edit, which for some odd reason wouldn’t detect the calculator which caused a ton of headaches and tedious cycles.

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A Response from Chipotle

Thomas,

Thanks for writing. I’m so sorry we’ve been skimpy on our portioning. We did not, as a company, implement smaller portioning. Because all of our restaurants are company owned and operated, we should also have consistent portioning.

We will contact the restaurant and make sure they are aware of (and offering) the correct serving sizes.

In the meantime, we never want to leave our patrons hungry. If you will send me your mailing address, I’ll send you a burrito buck to help make up for your diminutive burrito.

Sincerely,
Shannon Kyllo
Chipotle

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Once again I got bored

Once again I got bored

Check it out (thomas thammasuckd’s soundboard):

http://www.dudewheresmycar.org/soundboard/

(3mb)

picture-30

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