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Windows Vista Forces you to use UAC to Add a Printer

May 15th, 2007

Vista has once again annoyed me. My post on how to turn off UAC is all well and good until you need to add a network printer…
You cannot add a network printer in Windows Vista unless you have UAC turned on, not even with the administrator account. And for more added fun, the error […]

Install Vista without a CD key

May 3rd, 2007

Daniel Petri comes up with another great tip and insight into the way Microsoft’s software can be manipulated to do things you want to do. In this case how to trial different versions of Windows Vista. Once the activation deadline is reached you must put your legal key in for the version you installed to […]

4 Ways to Disable Security warnings in Windows Vista.

April 24th, 2007

Disable the User Account Control (UAC) feature on your Windows Vista computer.
Makes Vista a lot less annoying for power users.
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Toshiba Satellite A100 for £149 at littlewoods.com

January 30th, 2007

Hurry before they take it down. Littlewoods currently have listed a CoreDuo Tosh satellite laptop with 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD and 128MB ATI Radeon graphics for UNDER £150

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This is clearly a mistake on their behalf but most people at work seem to have ordered […]

Microsoft amused by the iPhone - and rightly so

January 19th, 2007

Having seen and commented on the iPhone earlier this week I am happy to see that Microsoft have come back and agreed with my opinions that they have already got a number of devices that can do this and don’t cost an absolute fortune to buy.
I also loved the comment from Steve
“£500 dollars…. that’s the […]

Windows Vista - give me back my computer

October 17th, 2006

A couple of weeks ago I decided that I would like to try the Windows Vista RC1 release to see whether it is going to be worth my while reformatting my PC again to get it up to date with the latest Windows OS. I currently run Windows Server 2003 and find that it is […]

What is the point of web standards?

October 13th, 2006

Like most decent, respectable, knowledgeable people I don’t use Microsoft Internet Explorer to browse the internet. I much prefer to use Mozilla’s Firefox as it is regularly updated, has nice features and looks a lot nicer. This isn’t the problem, it is the uneducated people out there who still use MSIE “because its already there […]

M3100 arrives tomorrow

October 11th, 2006

After a while of waiting I should hopefully be able to get my new mobile phone tomorrow.
The desire for a new, preferably a 3G, phone has been going since the end of April when my contract came up for renewal. Back then I was faced with the £130 for the N80, £50 for the V3i […]

Orange SPV M600 is here

September 7th, 2006

my new phone has arrived and as usual I have ignored the “please ensure you charge your phone for at least 16 hours” advice that the people at Orange always give.
So far it has worked really well. I have put all my contacts into Outlook 2003 and they are synced with the phone. I had […]

New phone tomorrow but why didn’t someone tell me about the other one…

September 6th, 2006

Each year around the start of May I start to decide what the latest must-have mobile is. I currently have the Motorola V3 RAZR which has served me very well until now. It has been able to take any abuse from me spliing things on it to accidentally throwing it across the floor. It’s only […]

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