It happens enough times. You’re busy reinstalling Windows for someone when you find that you can’t install Windows Updates because the internet connection available is slowly than a milk float delivering breeze blocks instead of milk. In so far as keeping up-to-date, the issue is no longer “How soon can the updates be installed on [...]

John ponders why he’s always going to bed an hour late when he dual boots between Windows and Linux, and tries to switch Windows to use UTC time.

If you happen to have an Intel PRO1000 network card, you may come across the following error when you open up control panel in Windows: Intel PROset resources are not available The problem for me stemmed from repairing an installation of Windows. With the Intel Pro-network cards, the software that comes bundled with them includes [...]

After when deploying Internet Explorer 7 around your site through a service such as WSUS, there are immediate considertaions that have to be dealt with. The main one being configuring settings for IE7. It is possible to download the Internet Explorer Administration Toolkit (IEAK), but when dealing with IE7 that has been installed on computers [...]

When dropping Windows Vista into an existing network, you may notice some unusual issues that weren’t apparent in Windows 2000 or Windows XP. One such setting, is the disappearance of the Start Menu folders. John goes on a quest to track them down…

I had a bit of a problem with a restored computer where the CD drives would not appear in My Computer in Windows XP. After a little bit of grief, I found that the problem was a simple registry setting: http://www.siliconguide.com/qa/forum/messages/71.shtml To resolve the issue Open up the registry editor (Start > Run > regedit [...]