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I’ve recently upgraded to a Macbook Pro and am mostly happy
One of the minor niggly things that keeps getting me slightly annoyed though is the keyboard mess I get into. The apple keyboard is essentially a US layout so and since I’m a heavy keyboard user keys go missing. So this post is [...]

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Today I was messing about with TVersity (trying to get streaming to iPods working), and got to a point where I deinstalled the software.
This then caused an issue with the Windows Media Player sharing setup with my Xboxes. Problem is in Vista there is no such thing as a deinstall/reinstall (which probably would have fixed [...]

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This has bugged me for a number of years about Vista. The icons on the desktop look way to big for me and never really worked out how to shrink them.
Surprisingly its dead easy.
Right Click anywhere on the desktop and click View. Then click on Classic Icons. Job done.

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I’ve been doing a lot of investigation and trying out of things on the Betas of Windows 7, and not since XP have I seen a rock solid product from Microsoft.
The problem with being on the forefront of technology however is that some software doesn’t always work without a bit of digging. (This is where [...]

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A quick Bat script that will read input from a txt file with folder locations and identify read only files outputting them to a csv file.

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Ever wanted to remove log files on a regular basis, say anything older than 30 days.  Well here’s a nice little VBScript that when run as a schedualed task can do it for you.  The first will look at the date created and compare it to the current data, the second will look at the [...]

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I’m a fan of the XBox 360, the price these days for a combined DVD, Media center Extender and games console is so low its hard not to be, however every once in a while an issue that comes up that isn’t necessarily easily explained out there in Cyberspace.

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We have a problem at work when people are remotely adminstering Windows servers with Remote Desktop technology (aka Terminal Services). Instead of logging off, they can leave sessions open but just disconnected. So how do we get round this? (Windows Servers have a connection limit of two users, unless its a properly configured Terminal Server).

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Have a MS SQL Database that you need to change the owner back to DBO or another user?

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