Further to my last post on this I’ve had still had mixed results getting my Three modem to connect to my Windows 7 systems. Now that Windows 7 is on general release I had a quick look on the Three support website and find a support article specific to my problem A quick firmware upgrade
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ZTE MF627 and Windows 7
Just a quick one! I recently acquired a 3 Mobile broadband dongle The specific model of the dongle is ZTE MF627 When i ran the installer program on my laptop (which is running Windows 7 Professional) everything seemed to install ok but it refused to pick up the modem I tried it on my netbook
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Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
In case you have been living under a rock Windows 7 RTM was made available to Technet and MSDN subscribers yesterday I grabbed my ISO’s this morning and was thinking about how best to approach the upgrade on my netbook. I then remembered that when Vista was first released there was a tool for letting
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Children and Online Safety
There has been an series running on Channel 4 this week on sex education with a specific focus on young people and how they gain all the information about “the birds and the bees” from Internet porn They are also started a campaign called “Protect Kids from Porn” I had a whole post drafted out
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Placing Blame Correctly
Can’t believe how long it’s been since my last blog post! I’ve really no idea where the days are going at the moment I’ve had a few problems with my work PC recently. It becomes very unresponsive and gets progressively worse during the day I fired up the trusty task manger and the CPU was
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Installing SQL Management Studio Express on Vista x64 – Tim Long
Just wanted to share as I had this exact problem…thanks Tim! Also it’s so I don’t forget how to do it! Installing SQL Management Studio Express on Vista x64 – Tim Long It’s still installing software but that rant can wait for another time 🙂
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Poor Vista show by software vendor
Not the first time you’ve heard this story but thought I’d share One of our clients is just about to change all their PCs as part of a larger IT project They currently don’t have any Vista PCs so we had a chat about that. Obviously the client has heard all the usual press stories
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Stupid is as stupid does
If you’re on my Facebook friends list you’ll have got this message over the weekend Hello AllIf you’ve had a weird message from me (other than this one!) today please delete itI got the same message from a friend and while allowing my curiosity to get the better of me i managed to infect myself
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Installing Windows Live Writer on Vista 64-bit
I’m running Vista 64-bit so tried to install Live Writer a while back and got the following error From what I’ve read it’s to do with the unified Live installer and not Live Writer I’ve seen a couple of blog posts that mention if you can get the MSI file you can install it
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Screensaver does start with a wireless mouse plugged in
Very strange one today I took a call a few days ago from a client who “wasn’t asked for her password anymore when she’d been away from her desk” My initial thought was that her screensaver had been disabled or the password option had been turned off I logged in and everything was as I’d