Category Archives: Windows

Quickbooks 2006 on Windows Small Business Server 2003

Posted on December 9, 2009 by dale

This morning we had a problem and needed to get Quickbooks 2006 running on Windows Small Business Server 2003, after the install we kept getting the following error when you tried to launch Quickbooks. A bit of searching online only … Continue reading →

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Unmountable_Boot_Volume BSOD on Windows XP

Posted on August 31, 2009 by dale

A friend brought round her computer today that was constantly rebooting while Windows was trying to boot. After a bit of fiddling I got it so that I could see the error message which was a BSOD (blue screen of … Continue reading →

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Remote desktop to console session on Windows 2003 Server

Posted on August 13, 2009 by dale

One of our clients Windows 2003 servers was doing strange things, on connecting to the server via Remote Desktop all you got was a blue screen (default windows background colour). My guess was that a session or 2 was still … Continue reading →

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Synergy Rocks!

Posted on July 20, 2009 by dale

If you’ve never heard of Synergy its a pretty awesome application. Basically it allows multiple computers to share one set of Keyboard, Mouse and Clipboard. It’s cross platform so it works very nicely if you’re running a mixed environment. I … Continue reading →

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Windows Console Replacement

Posted on June 29, 2009 by dale

I spend a lot of time at the command line in both windows and Linux, I guess I feel more at home or perhaps more in control. On Linux I have Gnome-Terminal which is a perfectly adequate container for a … Continue reading →

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Open Source/Free Utils and Applications

Posted on April 15, 2009 by dale

I thought I would list a bunch of Open Source / Free utils and applications that I use almost every day. I’m excluding the obvious ones like Linux (in my case Ubuntu). The list below is what I use in … Continue reading →

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Paint.NET

Posted on September 26, 2006 by dale

I stumbled across this one while I was looking for a solution to an odd problem in .NET 2.0 (C#, trying to save a changed datasource.) What’s cool about Paint.NET is that it’s a free Open Source photo editing software. … Continue reading →

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Open Source Desktop Publishing Software

Posted on August 26, 2006 by dale

Having once run my own small business I know all about doing things yourself to save money. One of the things that we did alot of was brochures, manuals and other printed documents. When you’re a small company you can’t … Continue reading →

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