CAPI2 error - Missing System Writer on Windows 2008

System Writer is missing from the output of vssadmin list writers. The Application Event log is showing Event ID 513 source CAPI2. Had a hell of a time resolving this issue. Most of the sources point to a permissions issue. However the security log remains error free. The script below is combines a couple suggested fixes. One of the fixed is from the Microsoft KB article 2009272. Other items were found in various forums.
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Chrome socks5 command line switch

In Windows the Chrome browser uses your system wide proxy settings. This can be a problem if you have a need to run different browsers and/or applications. An example would be running a Secure Shell proxy to get through a content filtering firewall. To get around the Chrome system wide proxy settings, use a command line switch. Open or create a shortcut to Chrome/Chromium --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:8080" Replace 127.0.0.1 with your proxy address and 8080 with your proxy port.
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Citrix - Unable to connect to the CGP tunnel destination

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Citrix ICA not listening on port 1494

I ran into an issue with some Citrix servers in the environment. Users were getting a protocol driver error. After poking around I noticed ICA was not listening on port 1494. It appears that this issue was caused by Microsoft patch MS12-024. Known issues with this security update After you install this security update on a Windows Server 2003 SP2-based terminal server, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) clients or Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) clients may be unable to connect to the terminal server.
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Curses based full screen BOINC manager

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