Administrator passwords
Every now and then I get the situation where I really have to get rid of an administrator password on a PC. For instance, someone gives an aging relative a laptop which they used at work, which has an admin …
Author: Dave
Corrupt user profile
A client rang with an interesting tale of woe. When starting up his laptop after everything being completely normal in the previous session of use, it was coming up with a whole raft of disturbing symptoms, including missing icons off …
Dangers of smoking!
I had a call recently from a local lady whose ‘mouse had stopped working’. I popped in and had a look at the machine, and it was obviously not well. The mouse just did not work, the network connection was …
Paradise dial up server timeouts
I have recently dealt with two customers who has an identical problem. They are both Paradise customers, both use a dial up connection, and are both getting server timeouts and disconnects when using outlook express to download emails. Paradise and …
HP Compaq laptops
Got a call from a guy living in a mobile home park, who obviously depends on his laptop and mobile for communications. The laptop was switching on, all the lights were lighting up blue, but nothing was happening, no display, …
Missed a month
I haven’t posted here for nearly a month. It’s not that I have not been busy, just that nothing has been that tricky really. Sorted out a number of hardware problems, including diagnosing and replacing a graphics card, diagnosing a …
Latest tricky job
Had a request from a client to ‘repair windows XP’ on his Asus laptop. He’d tried but couldn’t get his XP disk to repair the XP system. Dropped into see him to see if it was something quick, and looked …
With the rain…
came forth broadband issues! We had a lot of rain between Xmas and New year, and what had been an almost faultless broadband connection for a few days turned to an absolute mess again, going in and and out of …
Landline woes – not!
Not sure what is the cause, but since removing the Thomson for the last time, putting the D-Link back together, putting it back on it’s shelf with a short extension cord on the phone line, it has now gone 30 …
Thomson TG585 V7
Telecom sent me this modem as a replacement for my D-Link DSL G604T which is quite old now. It’s very good looking, but its major physical failing is that the antenna is not replaceable. As I have a large house …