Archive for September 1st, 2011
Diskmax – How to enable deep scan
If you are an experienced user, you can enable the deep scan feature (if you download the program, the feature is disabled by default for safety reasons I’m sure) of DiskMax by creating a blank notepad file named EnableDeepScan.txt and placing it in the users|current user|AppData|Roaming|kosyjohn.com|DiskMax folder.
DiskMax is an excellent utility that cleans your hard drive of unneeded temp files and other files that may clutter your drive. I like to use ccleaner but DiskMax will really clean your computer like no other utility when you need to do a thorough cleaning.
Note: Only use deep scan if you are an experienced user.
Find Computer or Hard drive serial numbers
It has to be fellow blogger week…Rick at What’s On My PC gives a tip at a command line you can run to get information from your hard drive and/or system. Working in IT, we are pulling drives or chasing vendor utilities that give back the data you need (serial number, bios info). Rick gives an excellent command line that helps you find out this information.
The following may or may not work for you; however, I found it to work on Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Did you ever run into the situation where you needed the serial number on your computer? The serial number is often required when you contact the vendor for support. Read more at What’s On My PC.
MMC class not registered error
I recently ran into the error MMC class not registered error when right clicking Computer and going to manage this also happened when trying to get into the device manager. The internet including Microsoft’s Fix-it Utilities and several forums did not produce a solution. Ironically I had forgotten about a post I made less than 48 hours ago that featured a link to Bill Mullins’ review of Tweaking.com’s repair utility for Windows. In order to fix this error on a known virus free computer, I simply let the program perform a SFC / scannow and went to Start Repairs (skipping the other steps), Custom and selected to register system files. Once I let the utility finish and rebooted, the MMC’s worked great. The utility currenty registers the 1000+ files thus fixing many problems.
