Bitten by a [Old] Bug . . .

Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Tech | No Comments »

I set up a virtual lab to test some deployments of Office 2007 and Symantec Endpoint Protection. Cue many hours banging my head off the wall and cursing the wrong software. I needed to test the deployment of the packages before ...

Troubleshooting and Diagnosis of Hardware and Software Faults

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 Posted in Tech | No Comments »

One of my duties at work is repairing PC and Laptop computers with everything from spyware and virus infections to broken or defective hardware. Over time I've came to a way of working which aims to rule out the various issues ...

Corrupt Icons When Opening CD/DVD in My Computer

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Tech | No Comments »

If I have Large Icons enabled and open a CD or DVD to view the contents of the disc, I get Internet Explorer HTML page icons obscuring the actual icons for folders and files. Using TweakUI's Rebuild Icons feature would ...

UBCD4Win Setup Guide

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 Posted in Tech | No Comments »

I often need to diagnose hardware faults or troubleshoot an install which may contain spyware, viruses or have other issues. As far as I'm concerned there is only one* tool that gets the job done with anywhere near a satisfactory ...