Adding Windows Vista/7 Home to WSUS server w/o gpedit
by Tavan on Aug.16, 2010, under Uncategorized
As a few folks know, Windows Vista/7 Home Basic/Premium don’t include the Group Policy editor that would allow one to add a local computer to a WSUS server. Adding a few registry keys, however, will do the trick quite fine.
The specifics may be found on Microsoft Technet
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"WUServer"="http://
"WUStatusServer"="http://
"AcceptTrustedPublisherCerts"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000000
"AUOptions"=dword:00000004
"ScheduledInstallDay"=dword:00000000
"ScheduledInstallTime"=dword:00000003
"UseWUServer"=dword:00000001
"IncludeRecommendedUpdates"=dword:00000001
"AUPowerManagement"=dword:00000001
"DetectionFrequencyEnabled"=dword:00000001
"DetectionFrequency"=dword:00000003
"AutoInstallMinorUpdates"=dword:00000001
"RebootWarningTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000001
"RebootWarningTimeout"=dword:00000005
"RescheduleWaitTimeEnabled"=dword:00000001
"RescheduleWaitTime"=dword:00000001
Windows XP Sp3 – Missing CD/DVD-ROM drive
by Tavan on Dec.28, 2009, under Uncategorized
I was working on a clients’ computer earlier today, and this person had an issue with the DVD-ROM drive not displaying in “My Computer”. Further investigation shown that looking in device manager showed a yellow exclamation mark beside the drive. Viewing the properties of the device stated that the drivers couldn’t be loaded — Yet they’re there.
Deleting the device and letting the operating system reinstalled it yielded the same results.
Searching for this issue online yielded little results other than deleting the high and low pass filters for the device, and reloading the system. The high/low pass filter suggestion did not work for me, and reloading wasn’t an option.I tried reloading Service Pack 3 on to the system hoping that the drivers would overwrite themselves, but that didn’t work either.
What I ended up doing was loading a virtual machine (with VirtualBox) with Windows Xp Home Sp3. I booted the troubled machine into safe mode, ran the Registry Editor (regedit) and went to the following path: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318, and deleted as much of the contents as possible — Windows won’t allow you to delete the whole key. I copied all the files involved with the CD/DVD-ROM drivers and imported the default registry information, listed below, from the fresh machine.
I rebooted the machine, went into device manager, deleted the DVD-ROM drive, let the operating system find it again, and done. The drive now displays in My Computer without error and without a reload. The following files can be found [here] (135KB)
C:\windows\inf\cdrom.inf
C:\windows\inf\cdrom.pnf
C:\windows\system32\storprop.dll
C:\windows\system32\drivers\imapi.sys
C:\windows\system32\drivers\redbook.sys
C:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys
And in the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
“Class”=”CDROM”
@=”DVD/CD-ROM drives”
“EnumPropPages32″=”MmSys.Cpl,MediaPropPageProvider”
“Installer32″=”storprop.dll,DvdClassInstaller”
“SilentInstall”=”1″
“NoInstallClass”=”1″
“TroubleShooter-0″=”hcp://help/tshoot/tsdrive.htm”
“Icon”=”-51″
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000]
“EnumPropPages32″=”storprop.dll,DvdPropPageProvider”
“InfPath”=”cdrom.inf”
“InfSection”=”cdrom_install”
“ProviderName”=”Microsoft”
“DriverDateData”=hex:00,80,62,c5,c0,01,c1,01
“DriverDate”=”7-1-2001″
“DriverVersion”=”5.1.2535.0″
“MatchingDeviceId”=”gencdrom”
“DriverDesc”=”CD-ROM Drive”
