There is a tech support scam that most people are familiar with You get a call out of the blue, person claims to be from Microsoft and they are calling as you have a problem with your computer. They talk you through running some remote support software where they find a problem of some sort
OnePlus 6T No Internet Connection After Switching From Wireless
I wrote this a little while ago but after reading through I’m convinced I was just being an idiot so wasn’t going to post it. But if anyone is having the same problem then hopefully this will help! I had a bit of a weird problem with my phone that took me ages to track
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Running Gear – AfterShokz Trekz Titanium
As a rule I don’t usually run with headphones. I love listening to music and podcasts but there are a couple of reasons that until recently meant I didn’t usually bother. Races / Events Most races don’t allow you to run with headphones. Their reasoning for this is that you can’t hear the safety information
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Windows App Store – “Where do you want to install”
I don’t often install anything from the Windows App Store. I’m not a fan..the terribly unhelpful UI I’m about to moan about being one of those reasons. This morning there was something I wanted to try that was only available there. So I found the app in question. Tried to install it and was presented
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Amazon Fulfilment Centre Tour
It’s school holidays at the moment so we did something a little bit different on Monday. A tour of an Amazon warehouse! I’d seen them promoted on their website and via Facebook a few times but at that point the nearest centre was about an hour away in Rugeley. The Coventry centre opened in July
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The System Administrator Has Set Policies To Prevent This Installation
I saw this error message while trying to install Adobe Reader this week and was sure I’d written about it before. I clearly hadn’t as I found it in my “to blog” section in OneNote. First thing that sprang to mind was that it might be related to a Software Restriction Policy but I couldn’t
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Task Manager Closes Straight After Opening
I was trying to install a program on my laptop and was having some problems. It looked like the installer was stuck so I wanted to use task manager to kill the process. Unfortunately, as soon as I opened Task Manager it would immediately close. I had seen something like this a long time ago
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Error 0x80073701 When Adding Or Removing Server Roles
Last week I was removing a really old Window Server 2008 domain controller. As part of that process I needed to remove the Active Directory Certificate Services role. It took an absolute age and looked like nothing was happening for a while. Eventually I got an error code “0x80073701. The referenced assembly could not be
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Recording Personal Bests With Strava
Strava is the go to place for most people when it comes to tracking the runs of yourself and following your friends and generally helping to see how you’re progressing (I love a Strava segment!). Since it’s supposed to do most things for your automatically one thing I often see confusing other runners is personal
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Windows 10 Broken After 1803 install
I’ve been meaning to document this somewhere for ages as a note for future reference! When my PC in the office updated to Windows 10 1803 I had a bit of a problem… Logging in took an age and I was then presented with the following error C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable.
