Tuesday, 12 April 2022

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 17.0 keeps re building content and effects at startup

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Every time you start Adobe PhotoShop Elements 2019 (this is version 17.0 build 20180830.m.125874) you get a message and progress bar showing...
Saturday, 23 October 2021

Adding a Mitel 5201 phone to a 3300 controller

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Previously we've been able to just change the MAC address on the 3300 controller when we swapped out faulty phones, but had some problem...
Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Dell OptiPlex 7070 external speaker humming with Realtek audio driver

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The external speaker on my Dell OptiPlex 7070 SFF starts humming every few minutes. A quiet low level, deep hum. Sounds a little like the sp...
Friday, 5 March 2021

HP ProDesk 400 offline missing ethernet network adapter

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Possibly the strangest call for a while ... a cat stepped on the keyboard and the computer went offline! Tried all the obvious fixes for air...
Thursday, 6 June 2019

Outlook 2016 with Gmail keep getting prompted for "Sign in with your Google account" IMAP

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Outlook 2016 loads up with a Google Gmail or Googlemail account configured and imediately prompts with a Sign in with your Google account pr...
Tuesday, 19 March 2019

Bootrec rebuildbcd or scanos - total identified Windows installations: 0

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We've just had a Windows 8.1 Lenovo laptop that stopped booting. It reported attempting Automatic Repair and kept failing and rebooting ...
Sunday, 9 December 2018

0x800F081F can’t install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 in Windows 10

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Had a few instances of installing specific business software or older programs that get a prompt in Windows 10 that .Net 3.5 will be require...
Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Buffalo DriveStation backup error on SBS Server 2008 (msexchangeis 9782, error code '2155348010')

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Attaching a new Buffalo Drivestation 3TB Velocity USB 3.0 backup drive (HD_LXU3) to an old Windows Server 2008, which is part of Small Busin...
Thursday, 5 July 2018

Avastclear gives error 'stub cannot run installer / updater ...'

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We've had a few license warnings for Avast Business Antivirus Cloudcare recently. Usually when upgrading, eg from Cloudcare 4.2.x to 4.3...
Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Update: Lost or forgotten iPad Parental Restrictions PIN code

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A quick update to a popular post from a couple of years ago. We talked about recovering the Apple parental control restrictions PIN from an ...