Category Archives: computers

XP blank desktop – explorer.exe not loading (virut)

Posted on April 26, 2009 by nommo

A friend of mine dropped off her Compaq laptop the other day, apparently it had been running slow and a friend of hers came round and “did stuff” to “sort it” – unfortunately it didn’t go to plan, and instead … Continue reading →

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Give me your favourite quotes

Posted on November 16, 2008 by nommo

I have been using a great little WordPress plug-in called ‘Quotes Collection‘ on this blog – it’s great for grabbing those quotes you see popping up over the web and adding them to your blog. It is my favourite aspect … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.0.1 location url bar autocomplete broken (and rss live feed bookmarks)

Posted on September 22, 2008 by nommo

My favourite web browser – Mozilla’s Firefox, has recently begun to cause consternation – only on my work PC. On the laptop it is fine. There are a gazillion blog/forum posts complaining about the new functionality of said URL bar, … Continue reading →

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Wireless trouble after installing XP SP3

Posted on September 20, 2008 by nommo

I finally succumbed to installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my Asus F5RL laptop yesterday… it all seemed to go well, until I was surfing around the web and noticed that my internet connectivity dropped out (but my wireless … Continue reading →

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