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
Author: Andy Parkes
Andy Parkes is Technical Director at Coventry based IT support company IBIT Solutions. Formerly, coordinator of AMITPRO and Microsoft Partner Area Lead for 2012-2013. He also isn't a fan of describing himself in the third person.
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.
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Invalid XML Error When Opening Outlook
Just a very quick one as I came across this for the first time in ages today. This isn’t particularly new but I wanted to document it somewhere! When opening Outlook you receive the error “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded.” What this means is
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My Year In Running – 2017
2017 was a brilliant running year for me. The main goal was to participate in the Birmingham Marathon but there were various other events throughout the year which contributed to it being such a good year. The most memorable were three events where I was able to set personal bests over three different distances. (links
