A Pipe and a Keyboard

As I said in my last post, I rebuilt the operating system on this laptop. It was a straightforward restore from the factory backup, which I had done before and had no problems with.  This time however, I noticed a couple of strange things happening. The first thing I noticed was that the Vista Sidebar [...]

Filed under: Tech stuff on June 6th, 2010 | No Comments »

Every once in a while, I think it is a good idea to rebuild the operating system on a PC. This machine has a partitioned hard disk, with the Primary partition holding Windows and all the programmes.  The Secondary partition holds all the data and all the other junk that accumulates over time.  Rebuilding is [...]

Filed under: Tech stuff on June 1st, 2010 | No Comments »