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Entries from October 2006

Process Explorer

October 2nd, 2006 by dcouper · No Comments

Occasionally when I open outlook 2003 it refuses to obey. After a while of messing around with it I worked out that for some reason it had opened multiple instances of outlook in the process tree. This is a fairly easy problem to sort out, go to task manager and end the process….but occasionally that [...]

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Tags: Applications



Ubuntu – Free OS

October 2nd, 2006 by chevvy · No Comments

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/myrequest Get Ubuntu shipped free to you Its a free open source Linux-based operating system. You can run it as a dual operating system (I am told … comments please) with Win XP and so in the case of XP not running you can recover your files before formatting the HDD and starting again

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Tags: OS & Servers

NAS – Network Attached Storage

October 2nd, 2006 by chevvy · No Comments

I am considering one of these options at the moment. This came about from 3 reasons – my main PC at home crashed – did the lovely blue screen on me and I had to rebuild it and before I could do this – I had to find 30Gb where I could backup all my [...]

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Tags: Networking · Storage



Free AVG Anti-Virus

October 2nd, 2006 by chevvy · 1 Comment

A great free anti-virus program I use is AVG by Grisoft. You can download it at free.grisoft.com. I have never had any problems with it and it has saved me from a few viruses. It will automatically update if you tell it to.

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Tags: Security

VPN in Win2K

October 2nd, 2006 by chevvy · No Comments

The option to use VPN in Win2k was greyed out and as this was wanted I wanted to use I did some searching and found that you have to have Telephony and Remote Access Connection Manager turned on in Administrative Tools > Services (or Start, Run, services.msc then hit enter). To make VPN connections you [...]

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Tags: Networking