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.…
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Windows Live Messenger & AVG 8
Another tale from the trenches .. that being my own personal experience on my PC! Windows Live Messenger refusing to sign in, giving an 8100030d error. Most suggestions include regsrv32 commands to reregister dll files, resetting modems etc, nothing which worked on Vista for me. Until I remembered that Tony had recently upgraded my software…
Disappearing sound devices
Today’s lesson is a short one, about the magic of disappearing sound devices. In Vista, under Control Panel, then Sounds, the first tab is Playback. Mine shows two devices: Speakers and Realtek Digital Output. Whilst playing around with some settings the other day, I right-clicked on Speakers and selected Disable … and disable they did! Having been…
Loose your Groove
Did I mention how well my laptop has been running since the Vista reinstallation? Oh yeah, except I still haven’t tackled iTunes again 🙂 Here’s one that’s caught me out before .. and, as I didn’t reinstall the applications (hubby did) .. it snuck back in again. Small business owners in Australia & New Zealand may…
A rebuild is a beautiful thing
How long do you put up with a problem before you fix it? Especially if it’s one of those ‘slightly annoying but I can work around it’ type computer problems? Do you wait for a quiet moment at work (yeah, right), or for a time when you are feeling particularly unproductive or are avoiding another…
And I work in I.T.!!!
I’m afraid I’m starting this blog with a technology drama, involving my shiny new iPod Shuffle (2nd generation) and Windows Vista. “Ah yes, Vista” you say knowingly. But at Microsoft’s defence leaps the voice of my dear friend who pointed out that the vendors had the Vista code for 2 years prior to the release, so…