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Saving The World, Printer Ink First

Saving something seems to to be the big thing in I.T. at moment, which is never a bad thing. The current big thing is the Green Computing initiatives, particularly with the prominence now of virtual computing and power saving features in new operating Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:08 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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IKEA-fying my computer

I have had this blog post in the pipeline for a while now, but I have been waiting until all the pieces fell into place, to make it something actually worthwhile to read! Be warned though, this is a rather long blog post – but please stay awake! Having Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:50 AM by Daniel Oxley | 2 Comments

Network Issues prevent certain Installations (otherwise known as 0xc000000f)

I have recently been setting up a Hyper-V laboratory for a Windows 7 project.  I had all the machines installed, and I was configuring them using an RDP connection rather than using VMConnect (the reason is that it is nice and easy to get access Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:28 AM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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Just fix it for me please…

Articles on the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) sometimes contain pretty straightforward solutions, such as changing a single value in the registry or running a simple command.  They are often so simple that I always wondered why Windows could not Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:33 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Translating TechNet instantly

Here’s a little something I discovered the other day which I have found to be super useful. As anyone who is not a native English speaker knows, English is the predominant language on the Internet; and in the world of IT, this seems to be especially true.  Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:25 PM by Daniel Oxley | 2 Comments
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Job/Life/Reputation protector 2.0

Back in January I posted some simple VBA code for adding an “are you sure?” type question to the Reply To All button in Outlook. Since then I have received a few suggestions for improving the code, one of the most common of which was to add to the question Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 12:58 PM by Daniel Oxley | 4 Comments
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