Category Archive: General

Jan 05 2012

RDP ActiveX Control won’t install

I have been supporting Windows Small Business Server for many years.   One of SBS’s best selling points is the Remote Web Place ferature, this allows users to logon onto a internal hosted website and access there desktop PC or Remote Desktop Server via the webpage. To allow this to work Microsoft uses an ActiveX …

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Jan 02 2012

What is Windows Defender Offline Beta?

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Microsoft Security Essentials in my opinion is one the best anti virus products to be released in years.   Version 2.0 is currently in beta and Microsoft have now released a offline version which can be booted from USB, CD/DVD. This is great, you can download from here.

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Jan 01 2012

Happy New Year!

Happy New year to all of my readers. Thanks for your support this past year.  I hope the coming year brings all that you hope for! All the best for 2012. Wayne

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Oct 06 2011

Sad Day.

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Steve Jobs has died.   All our thoughts go out to his family.  

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Jun 29 2011

Angry Birds for Windows Phone

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Yey!  Angry birds for Windows Phone is in the market place, not sure what day this week this was released, but you can download,  £2.49   Have fun people!  Link.

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Mar 16 2011

Blast from the past.

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  I was given this DIMM, which was supplied by the Comp Shop,

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Mar 02 2011

Upgrading Windows from DOS 5.0 to Windows 7

This is pretty cool!

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Mar 02 2011

Lots of Drives…. or Not. :-)

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Does this bug you? In Windows 7, you can turn it of by hitting Alt, Select Tools menu > Folder options…… Ensure “Don’t show hidden files folder or drives” is selected and ensured “Hide empty drives in the Computer folder” is ticked.   The empty drives disappear….. 

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Oct 31 2010

Hello World

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I have been away on my Holidays of late…. hence why it’s been quiet on here. So here’s a brief summary of things I’m playing around with and an update.  I’m looking in to Android development.  I’ve not really bothered with Linux all that much.  So I expect that I’ll end up about my experiences …

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Aug 19 2010

Time flies

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Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 10 days since I last blogged.   It’s a good job that I didn’t join in with BEDA (Blog Everyday in August).  Anyhow, I still have lots of stuff going on and I have some bad news.  A family member has passed away.  She was only 46.  I lost my …

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