Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Software I couldn’t live without…

Posted: 7th May 2009 by Grant Perry in Development tools (app), Programming (web), Technologies, Web servers, Windows
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Over the years we all build up our own collections of tools which help us be more productive little soldiers. We realise a need for something to help us to achieve an end goal, or a lot of the time just ask ourselves “surely there is a faster and easier way of doing this”. The [...]

Vistas first 2008 ‘reliability’ update blue screens

Posted: 11th January 2008 by Grant Perry in Operating systems, Windows
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As recommend by the Microsoft crew I had enabled automatic updates… Big mistake! After my laptop installed the batch of updates released on the 9th of January my laptop began endlessly rebooting. It blue screens as soon as is starts to load Vista. To make things even better even safe mode does the same thing. [...]

Virtualisation: Host only and Internet networking

Posted: 1st November 2007 by Grant Perry in Operating systems, Virtualisation, Windows
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I’m running a development server virtual machine on my Vista laptop using Parallels. Trouble is being on a laptop sometimes I’m on the road so a Host only network suits me, but other times I’m at home so I want the guest machine to connect to my home network. Up until now there has been [...]

Access is Denied: Fixing windows permissions!

Posted: 11th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Operating systems, Windows
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Having trouble with permissions to a file on Windows XP? So was I even though I was logged as an Administrator.. the same account which created the file.. the permissions hadn’t been modified.. Even worse the files locked were a virtual server I had spent days configuring! The process to fix it was actually quite [...]