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As I was attempting to play with Windows 2008 R2, which only comes in 64bit flavors, I received this error when trying to start the setup:

nothing useful nothing useful nothing useful 0xC0000225 blah blah blah blah blah

This was on the latest version of VirtualBox, on a 32bit host. At first I thought it was a bug in VirtualBox, since it didn’t support 64bit guests on 32bit hosts for so long, but it turns out that when I enabled IO APIC for that Virtual machine, everything worked fine !

Happy testing.

How can people be looking for so many Unix books yet… The first one here isn’t unix related at all!

You might have had some computers not communicating properly with your WSUS servers.

After looking at the WindowsUpdate.log file, you notice an error, WARNING: WU client failed Searching for update with error 0x8024400e .

You then find info about
1) This error being related to Office 2003 Service Pack 1, and that unapproving it fixes the isse
2) Microsoft having released a patch for this issue that you can install on your servers.

But in reality, the issue might be…
3) You’re retarded, and called a computer group on your test lab .. Group! .. With the ! !

For security reasons, it might be advisable to clear your swap file at shutdown.

It doesn’t provide great security, and you really should be using full drive encryption anways.

But in case anyone is wondering, for a 1.5gig swap file, this option (ClearPageFileAtShutdown) seems to add about 30 to 40 seconds of time to the shutdown procedure as it overwrites the file with zeroes.

Now turn it back off and install Truecrypt!