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 ...
Tuesday, 20 March 2018

How to remotely read a Dell Optiplex Tag number (serial no) via command prompt

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There are plenty of management tools that will gather the data for you, but if you're on a domain network and just need a quick way to g...
Thursday, 25 January 2018

ACT spell check cannot be performed

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An ACT Premium v19.2 user logged into a new PC couldn't run the spell check on a letter created in ACT with one of the document template...
Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Can't type username in ACT Premium Web login (greyed out)

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We had an ACT v19.2 client unable to use the remote internet login via ACT Premium Web access. When they got to the sign-in screen for ACT i...
Friday, 17 November 2017

3 PCs missing from AVG Avast Cloudcare Console

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Strange problem at one site with AVG CloudCare v3.6.4. Only one of 3 particular PCs would ever appear in the console at once. Lets call th...
Monday, 3 July 2017

1and1 Cloud Virtual Server outgoing smtp email blocked

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Got a new VPS hosting server with 1&1, its one of their Cloud Virtual Servers based on SSD, nice and speedy. Obscure problem with the fi...