Restore Vista compressed file association
Recently I lost the ability to expand zip files as compressed folders in Vista. a quick search of the web and I found this: At the start prompt enter “cmd /c assoc .zip=CompressedFolder” If necessary,...
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Create a Remote Desktop Icon on your Desktop
This should work on Windows 7 and Vista Right Click the desktop and select New Create Shortcut Enter the following in the location of the item mstsc /v:remote Where “remote” is the computer you want to...
View ArticleBroken Search in Windows 7
I keep running into this issue and found this on this forum 1. End Task on EXPLORER.EXE from Task Manager. 2. Start the Registry Editor 3. Look for the following key:...
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What happens when you haven’t got a DVD drive
I fell foul of HP’s part ordering and managed to buy a small server without a DVD drive, lovely box though, an HP Proliant Microserver. It came with hard disk and various cd’s including Windows Server...
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Security of information on hard disks
At a recent Banbury Tweetup (usually first Thursday of the month at the Inn at Farnborough, next one on the 9th June 2011) we discussed the security issues of broken computers and hard disks. You...
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Safely Remove Hardware –Windows 7
Ever found yourself searching for the way to safely remove the USB stick in Windows 7, it is lost in the status bar? Getting to this is very picky at times So the way is to create a desktop shortcut as...
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Find your local network IP address XP
I keep talking people through the process of finding their local IP address, not their internet facing one, just the one issued by their router. This post shows one way of checking it on an XP computer...
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Find your local IP address Windows 7
This is the Windows 7 version of how to find your local IP address, Vista is similar. In the Task bar is a small computer icon Click and Open Network sharing Centre You will note it will say if the...
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DNS and the way we search points out mistakes
I was browsing my twitter feed this morning and remembered one of my followers/followees (?) had just spent some time changing their website and thought I would have a look. Their twitter profile had...
View ArticleHow to Shutdown Remote Windows 8
I was playing with Windows 8 RTM over a remote desktop and couldn’t find how to reboot the machine and found the answer on the WWW: go to the desktop and press Alt+F4 and that will bring up the...
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