[dezmond]

Well, if anyone hits the same problem, I found a solution…

Polar used some cheap chinese electronics manufacturer to do their expensive IrDA adapters, who didn’t bother updating their drivers since 2006. Seriously!

I’ve created a XP VM on Hyper-V and installed Polar ProTrainer there. Which is fine but Hyper-V has no USB support, so I’ve installed Fabulatech’s USB over Network and shared the device that doesn’t get registered properly on the Windows Server 2008r2 host.

When sharing Fabulatech disable the device on the host, so I have no “unknown device” in the device manager, and it’s working fine on the host, the driver from 2006 works fine on 32-bit Windows XP. (surprise, surprise!)

My only gripe is that Microsoft didn’t include any sort of USB support in Hyper-V. So I gotta use third-party software 🙁

[dezmond]

Hm, I have bluetooth working and Ive used it with Nokia Ovi suite.

I also got the eHome Microsoft irda installed (just borrowed the receiver from my MCE). But for the life of me I cant get this Polar adapter to work! 🙁

Im getting “Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)”

[dezmond]

Thanks for all the replies lads.

I’ve tried the steps above, and I get an error when I tick “Share this printer” and OK or Apply:
“Printer settings could not be saved. Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006d9).”

Googling for this error has brought me to a number of pages that say Windows Firewall should be on in order to share printers. Sure enough, Windows Firewall is not running on my server. But I can’t start it, it’s set to automatic and doesn’t run. Starting it manually ends up with a “Windows could not start the Windows Firewall on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 5.”

Looking at the System event log I’m no smarted, it reports “The Windows Firewall service terminated with service-specific error Access is denied..”

Trying to find any info on Windows Firewall just brings up tons of sites with people having problems with XP or Vista, none of it has any relevance.

I’m seriously considering reinstalling. Can anyone check if their Windows Firewall service is running?

It started reporting errors in the log about the firewall service (I haven’t noticed) since the 2nd of September. I haven’t installed any updates or software on that date 🙁

And is it worth it trying to “repair in place” ?

[dezmond]

I never got as far as the client machine. I can’t share the printer on the server, therefore there is nothing for a client to connect to 🙁

[dezmond]

If you look at the windowsprefetch folder you’ll see exactly what it writes. So yes, it will use your disk as well as the RAM.

It can be tweaked to cache boot files only, instead of cacheing everything it can think of.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementPrefetchParameters

Find the EnablePrefetcher key on the right-hand pane, and change the value to one of these:

Disable Caching: 0
Cache Applications Only: 1
Cache Boot Files Only: 2
Cache Everything (default): 3

[dezmond]

How did you get NOD32 Antivirus 4 to work on Server 2008 R2?

It won’t install for me, just says that it’s not made for server applications and leaves only the option to click “finish” on the install, which just closes it.

I have a license for it and would love to use it, but I’ve no idea how you tricked it into working with 2008r2.

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