Daily Archives: February 22, 2008


Hiving off trouble

There has definitely been an increase in the number of machines requiring the patch that most support staff call the “hive patch”. To give it its proper name User Profile Hive Cleanup Service is described by Microsoft as “A service to help with slow log off and unreconciled profile problems”. Their information further says “The […]


A courtesy flush of the dns cache please …..

Windows dns cache is there to allow the results of dns lookups to be stored. When a Windows XP or Windows 2000 machine queries a DNS server, the response is either positive (a match was found) or negative (no match was found). The OS stores these results in a local DNS cache so that local […]