Microsoft

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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Windows 7 trial

The has been a lot of hype about Windows 7 over the last few months, and with the availability of the RC release (that expires next year), more people have had the chance to trial the latest OS from Microsoft. And might I say justified hype. I personally have found it a good step up […]

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XP Auto Reboot Remover

Don’t you hate it once you have installed Windows updates and are not at the PC it will automatically reboot to apply the updates? Well, it’s a Microsoft feature built into SP2, and can be a pain if you have your PC running some important applications etc. There is a solution – Auto XP reboot […]

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Shutdown shortcut on your desktop

When I want to shutdown one of my (Windows) PCs, I’m sick of clicking on Start>Turn off computer and then ‘shutdown’. Why didn’t Microsoft include a short icon or something similar to do that. Here’s some nifty instructions for making a shutdown shortcut on your desktop – complete with icon! Click here to read how […]

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Change the File, Save Attachment Location in Outlook 2003

Do you want to change the default file folder Outlook 2003 uses for attachments? While you can’t set a folder for attachments you send, you can set one for storing received attachments. You need to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options and add a string value called DefaultPath then enter the folder path. The next time you […]

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