Island_Boy_77

After wasting much of the afternoon trying to find a way to install Windows Updates automatically WITHOUT all the crud of the useless "automatic maintenance", I've come to a dead end. I know that M$, the hallowed Fruit Company and Google are trying desperately to dumb computers down so that …

Hi All When I'm using the TweakNow RegCleaner, it always picks up at least 20 entries (on the first pass on a PC that has never had RegCleaner run on it) showing "missing folder" in the "software\microsoft\tracing" folder. I always delete them all, even though they are marked yellow which …

Hi All I've noticed recently that in some circumstances Windows Explorer is maxing out when I'm trying to access flash drives. Typically, I insert a flash drive, open my shared folder (which has full access for everyone), then try copying the data I want from the PC to the flash …

Hi all Came across an interesting prob this week. Have a friend who has Office 2007 Home / Student edition, plus Word Reader 2003. He wanted to uninstall Word Reader 2003 (as part of a big tidy-up I was doing for him). Deleted his D partition (because it was empty), …

Hi all I've just had a mammoth "session" getting Windows XP to install onto an HP DV5-1209ax. And it worked! Yeeha! So the reason for this post is to let you know that it is doable, even though MS and HP have made it very hard to do so. If …

Hi all I'm helping a friend with his PC. It was running like a sick dog, so I scanned it for viruses - it had 5 different ones! I removed those, booted into XP, then ran Spybot, MalwareBytes & Super Antispyware - deleting a large number of spyware / malware. …

Hi All Just a quick hello. I'm Peter, from New Zealand. I run my own sole-trader IT business, specialising in custom-build PCs, virus killing, OS optimisation, hardware sales and upgrades, and am the NZ Distributor for CH Products. Being a sole trader means having to spend most of my time …