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Oct/11

Lock & Unlock Windows With Bluetooth

Filed Under Security, Windows at 11th October 2011 0:01 by

Overview I’d love to automate as much as possible and also get some great UIs along the way (Minority Report / Iron Man anyone?). An article I came across from How To Geek was a step closer to the dream. … Continue reading →

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Sep/11

SpiderOak Mini Review

Filed Under Software at 28th September 2011 0:01 by

Overview I was looking for a replacement to Dropbox after the EULA / T&C changes and found SpiderOak to be a very attractive alternative. It’s a backup and folder sharing / sync software which runs on all 3 major platforms … Continue reading →

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Sep/11

Windows 8 Preview Unexpected Error Status: 0xc0000225

Filed Under Windows at 22nd September 2011 0:01 by

I tried installing Windows 8 Preview on Oracle VM VirtualBox but when it started it errored on a black screen with white writing and stopped. The error at the bottom says Status: 0xc0000225 Info: An unexpected error has occurred. The … Continue reading →

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Aug/11

Acer Aspire One D255E Mini Review

Filed Under Hardware, Linux, Windows at 17th August 2011 0:04 by

Overview Our Asus EEE PC 701 SSD failed when I tried to upgrade it from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. I was in the middle of an install when it failed to copy a file and then there after it could … Continue reading →

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Jul/11

Synergy (Project) Windows To Windows

Filed Under Linux, Mac, Software, Windows at 20th July 2011 0:01 by

Overview It’s been a while since I have used a “stable” software which almost made me tear my hair out! As good as the concept of Synergy is the execution could have been better. All credit to the software and … Continue reading →

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Feb/11

The driver \Driver\WUDFRd failed to load for the device Root\SIDESHOW\0001.

Filed Under Peripherals, Windows at 11th February 2011 21:42 by

If you the error message above in Windows 7 event logs then it’s related to the G15 software. To stop it from erroring disable both slideshow plugins by starting the Logitech LCD Manager, Programs category and untick the “Enabled” box … Continue reading →

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Jan/11

Stop Windows 7 Update Rebooting After Update

Filed Under Windows at 21st January 2011 15:09 by

WARNING: Use this article at your own risk! Open the registry editor: Start Menu > Run Type in regedit and press OK button. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU On my machine stopped at Windows so I created new keys for WindowsUpdate and … Continue reading →

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Nov/10

Error: You Are Using A High Performance Setting

Filed Under Blog at 18th November 2010 19:12 by

I ran the Windows 7 “Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report” tool to see what can be done to reduce power consumption but it reports that using the performance power setting as an Error? Surely it should be a warning or not … Continue reading →