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Stop that nagging reboot message after windows update

By on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Don’t you hate the constant reminder to reboot windows after an update? Yes, you need to apply the changes, but if you are working on your PC, you don’t want to reboot until later. What I don’t like is that if you’re PC is unattended, your PC will just reboot. Well, here’s a fix: Type [...]

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Custom Login Wallpaper Windows 7

By on Monday, May 24th, 2010 | 3 Comments

The wallpaper presented to you at the logon screen in Windows 7 gets pretty boring quickly. Easy to change? Relatively. You can find some third party tools, or have a go yourself with the instructions below: 1. Press win+r key and Type Regedit at run prompt 2. Locate following registry key HK Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background 3. [...]

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Vista “unidentified network” can’t surf the net

By on Friday, May 21st, 2010 | 43 Comments

Came across an interesting problem the other day where a friend could not surf the net as Vista was displaying ‘unidentified network’ when trying to connect to her wireless router. Wired (ie ethernet cable) was fine. What I did notice was that from a command prompt, an ‘ipconfig’ command did not give an IP on [...]

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AVG Rescue CD

By on Monday, March 29th, 2010 | No Comments

A great addition for any IT pro’s toolkit which I read about the other day – AVG Rescue CD is bascially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus running on a Linux live CD. You can use it as a bootable CD or even a bootable USB drive, and the best thing is that it’s free. [...]

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BOOTMGR is missing when starting Windows

By on Friday, January 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

I turned on one of my PCs the other day after plugging in another drive to check it. Obviously something went amiss as it would not boot up. I was getting a msg ‘BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart’. WTF? Looks like the Master Boot Record (MBR) had become corrupt. Fortunately there was an [...]

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