Author: William Forney

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A post from Wendy at MSN.

LOL…  I just have to say this was quite an amusing post, and well to the point of trying to get people to send their errors/usage info to Microsoft. Unfortunately I do know a lot of people who are really scared of sending information about themselves, no matter how innocent it is, to anyone at some big company in "corporate…
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XP Boot Pain

Well, after a repair install and replacing the driver files to no avail, we just backed up all the data and put Vista on that box. Now off to Alan’s LAN party…  hehehe
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Windows XP RAID Boot Drivers

Ever had one of those days where you updated a RAID driver for your brand new D975XBX board and rebooted to find a nice blue screen waiting for you…?  Well, I did. Not on my machine, thank goodness, but on a dear friend of mine’s box. Gotta love it when Intel updates you into oblivion.  hehehe  Still working on it…
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remembering an old friend

Today I sit in front of my computer listening to Herb Alpert remembering an old friend and mentor whom I haven’t seen in a long time. I used to spend hours at his little house on Center Road playing games on his new 286, 386, and 486 computers as the years ticked by. His wonderful wife always had a smiling…
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another online quiz

You scored as Engineer. Military Engineer. Your job is usually overlooked, but without you nothing gets done. While you sometimes annoyed at this, and you know the only time people come to you is when there’s something wrong. You understand that you are the heart and soul of any organization with honesty and nice work ethic to boot. "I need…
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Vista user profile hell resolved

Well after a bit of tracking things down and booting to safe mode a few times I figured out that the combination of mozy.com’s backup service and windows onecare is what caused the problem. Looks like mozy was trying to backup my registry file while onecare tried to scan it and poof…  windows couldn’t access it when i logged in……
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Vista user profile hell

Well, after a little while running Vista I’ve had a weird thing happen. My user profile fails to load on a fairly new install… Luckily I do most of my work in a VPC image or I’d have been rebuilding my stuff for a week. As it is I’m not sure exactly what the cause is but the event log…

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