Thanks to the team at First Class Accounts for passing on their experience with a downloaded update from MYOB. Could have been due to the file becoming corrupted during the download process. After downloading and installing the new MYOB from the internet (Accounting Plus V18 or Premier V12), someone went to shut down her computer and found it would not…
All quiet on the western front …
Am I tempting fate by saying the current volume of ‘standard’ PC problems is rather low at the moment? By ‘standard’, I mean the usual suspects – hardware failures, viruses and Windows corruptions. You think that would worry a computer service company – think again! We’re loving the more interesting side of our business ……
Australian shops in spam subject
Recently my hotmail account junk e-mail filter has been catching some rather ‘Australian-targeted’ spam. Often with a sender of ‘Thanks for participating!’, ‘Much Thanks!’, the subject lines claim to have a voucher pending for me from an Australian store like Myer, Wollworths or JB-Hi Fi (though I’ve also seen an iPhone one too). The company is…
When AVG goes bad
Intermittant but far too frequent STOP blue screen messages seen on Windows XP with AVG 8.0 Internet Security (the one with the firewall component). Strange thing is, the blue screen often mentions things like IRQL errors, so it may lead you down a faulty hardware path. Turns out the AVG 8.0 firewall can be the…
Technology moves
Well, the whole office moved really, this weekend. And in a rare moment of quite, surrounded by not quite as many boxes, I thought it was about time I added a new blog post. Can you tell things around here have been a little busy? So, a couple of tips for moving your technology (which…
MYOB & Vista & Forms …
Today’s MYOB/Vista trick – logged onto my lapatop with a new user account that is NOT a domain administrator (trying to be all security conscious and the like). Then MYOB v17 refused to see my custom forms (incidentally, the business fie is on a shared drive). Log on as the old, domain admin user – no problem.…