Archive for the ‘IT Stuff’ Category

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Find out why your data is not safe

Whether you’re in business or a personal user, you probably have a computer and on that computer will be information that you will kick yourself (or worse) if it were lost.
For personal users there’s going to be important documents you’ve written, perhaps to the bank or perhaps to the grandkids. Maybe there’s important essay’s you’ve [...]

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Windows USB Hangs PC

If Windows XP or earlier hangs when you plug in a USB device, read this, it may save your sanity.

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How To Avoid Computer Viruses.

Aside from the obvious Buy A Mac quotation that one might expect, I felt it necessary to outline some of the things people with a PC running a variant of Microsoft Windows can do to reduce their likelihood of contracting a computer virus or trojan.
In my recent experience, most ‘viruses’ actually turn out not to [...]

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.7.1

I thought I’d just drop a note on here to say that upgrading from WordPress 2.5 to WordPress 2.7.1 was an absolute breeze.
I followed the instructions at http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress and to be honest it could not have been easier. I moved the original directory and unzipped the downloaded file, then copied across my theme.
To be fair [...]

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XP Logon, immediate Logoff…

There’s been a fair amount of articles written on the web regarding what can happen with certain spyware infiltrations which result in the immediate logoff effect. Such articles as this discuss various fixes for the problem but don’t show the way I managed to fix it earlier this week.
Basically after I’d run a spyware scan [...]