May 2010

Custom Login Wallpaper Windows 7

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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Google Pacman

Head over to Google today and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by today’s logo – dedicated to Pacman, one of the most popular retro games ever. Best part is that you can play it too! Click on insert coin and see what score you can get ……

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Vista “unidentified network” can’t surf the net

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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