Adam’s Tech Blog

From Dell’s Support Site:

To start Server Administrator, perform the following steps:

1. Click the Start button and point to Settings® Control Panel® Administrative Tools® Services.
   The Services window appears.
2. Right-click the Secure Port Server icon.
3. Click Start.

To stop Server Administrator, perform the following steps:

1. Click the Start button and point to Settings® Control Panel® Administrative Tools® Services.              The Services window appears.
2. Right-click the Secure Port Server icon.
3. Click Stop.

I started to receive a message on my new Vista box in Acronis True Image Home that looks like this:

Information    12/15/2008 8:07:49 AM    Locking partition C:…
Error    12/15/2008 8:10:00 AM    Operation with partition "2-0" was terminated.
Details:
Run list corrupted (0×7001C)
    Tag = 0×89D94B01B483E221

To rectify this issue just run a "CHKDSK C: /R" which should clean up a few NTFS attributes. This usually will happen if you hard-cycle your system for some reason.

1. Backup your registry
2. Open “regedit”
3. Navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services”
4. Find the service you wish to disable performance counters for
5. Navigate the performance key. If the key does not exist, create it.
6. Create a DWORD entry called “Disable Performance Counters” and set the value to 1
7. Enjoy a cool beverage.