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Comment on Vista: Guest is admin & user account is standard – can’t add or edit users or activate hidden Administrator account by Eric Partlow

Eric Partlow — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:07:08 +0000

Same problem. So I booted with a ultimate boot disk for windows. Once there I made a new adminstartor account. Restarted when in to the new account and moved over what I needed and turn off the guest account.

Comment on How to make Red Wine Vinegar at home by Paul Winder

Paul Winder — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:45:00 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I think I’ll probably seek out a half-decent one and run it in tandem with a less successful one, giving me a mini-trial to see how they turn out. I’ll contact you again once I have something to report/ask.

Comment on How to make Red Wine Vinegar at home by nommo

nommo — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:23:16 +0000

Thanks for the comment

I’ve only ever tried with palatable wine, so I can’t really say from experience. When researching for the article – I do remember reading that if the wine tastes bleaurgh – the vinegar probably will too. Off notes from a bad batch will remain in the vinegar. However, if your wine tastes a bit nasty because of oxidisation – it’s already on its way to becoming vinegar – so it would be perfect

I would say make yourself a starter batch with a half bottle of not-so-nice wine. Then in a couple of months you’ll be able to taste it, and even if it’s disgusting – you’ll probably still be able to use the mother from it for your first batch of nice wine…

Let me know how you get on anyway?

Comment on How to make Red Wine Vinegar at home by Paul Winder

Paul Winder — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:58:04 +0000

Thanks for the article- I intend to try your method. My question is this; does the “quality” of the wine (flavour rather than strength) affect the final flavour of the vinegar? My wife is a keen home brewer (of wine) and has plenty of ready brewed wines including hedgerow varieties. Some of them are (ahem!) less than completely palatable and we generally use these for cooking. However, we both love flavoured vinegars and …. well you get the drift.

Comment on Nommo’s Elderberry and Bramble wine by How to make Red Wine Vinegar at home | Convergency

How to make Red Wine Vinegar at home | Convergency — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:50:13 +0000

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Comment on Nommo’s Elderberry and Bramble wine by nommo

nommo — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:54:55 +0000

Speaking of vinegar… I recently made some (on purpose!) from last year’s batch of elderberry & blackberry homebrew… I really should publish a post about that….

Comment on Vista: Guest is admin & user account is standard – can’t add or edit users or activate hidden Administrator account by nommo

nommo — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:18:57 +0000

Hiya Harry – great stuff! Thanks for letting me know about that psexec tool… I hadn’t come across it on my extensive travels on google trying to find an answer to this!

I’ll edit my post with a link to your post also

Cheers

Comment on Vista: Guest is admin & user account is standard – can’t add or edit users or activate hidden Administrator account by Harry Johnston

Harry Johnston — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:53:41 +0000

In most cases it should be possible to get out of this situation without booting from external media. See my latest blog entry here:

http://harryjohnston.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/when-guest-is-the-administrator/

Thanks again for pointing out this fascinating case!

Comment on How wrong was goldilocks? by badra

badra — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:43:52 +0000

this is my h omework so please type the answers

Comment on Nommo’s Elderberry and Bramble wine by nommo

nommo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:31:15 +0000

Hiya Liz – no worries – let me know if you have any questions. It’s a cracking recipe. We have 1 bottle left to mature. Actually we only properly bottled the one -the rest we drank straight out of the DJs in a plastic 1L bottle… which didn’t stay full for long!

We don’t usually drink wine but loved this one. I am planning to make as much as I can next year. (4x more?).

I might get around to measuring the alcohol level next year too!

Oh yes – more posts!! Well I have a few days off work – and I have a white table wine (from supermarket fruit juice) and an ale kit to brew. Maybe I will do a post or two on that… hmmm… or maybe a whippet post…