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  • How to fix a Nokia Lumia that won’t start up

    How to fix a Nokia Lumia that won’t start up

    I thought I was going to need to buy a new phone at the weekend when my Nokia Lumia 925 got stuck in a reboot loop, showing the turning cogs followed by the Nokia logo, followed by the cogs, followed by the Nokia logo ad nauseam. Fortunately with the help of the Nokia Software Updater…

  • How to insert a OneNote note into an Outlook meeting

    How to insert a OneNote note into an Outlook meeting

    There are plenty of guides and information on how to add notes from an Outlook meeting into OneNote, but what if you want to do it the other way around and put a OneNote note into an Outlook meeting invitation? Here’s how you do it. Here I have an appointment for what we’re having for…

  • Fake Adobe Flash Player – beware

    Fake Adobe Flash Player – beware

    Be careful if you see a page like this offering to install Adobe Flash Video Player for you: A quick check of the address bar reveals that this isn’t Adobe’s website and what it’s trying to install is not Adobe Flash Player. It’s a fake version designed to trick unwary surfers into installing malware on your…

  • Onenote can’t start – error code 0x17

    Onenote can’t start – error code 0x17

    When trying to open Onenote you may see the error: Onenote can’t start – error code 0x17. The message will tell you that there’s not enough free disk space, or because ‘we don’t have permission to write to files in your user settings folder’ and follows up with the usual ‘contact your system administrator’. What if…

  • Google Publisher plugin Ooops

    Google Publisher plugin Ooops

    If you see this message when trying to manage your ads with the Google Publisher (Adsense) plugin, try disabling your other plugins. By trial and error I discovered that version 1.5.3.3 of the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast was causing the issue so I disabled it, make the changes I needed to my ads and then…

  • How to change the From address in Office 365 web app

    How to change the From address in Office 365 web app

    It may not be immediately obvious how to get to the ‘From’ field in Office 365 webmail so you can send as another account or distribution group you have access to, but here’s how to do it.   Open a new email and, if it’s not there already, add the From field by clicking the…

  • Lorem ipsum on Windows Phone

    Lorem ipsum on Windows Phone

    Do you notice anything unusual about the screenshot below of the monthly planner on my Windows Phone? Either I’ve entered all my appointments in Latin or Microsoft is being lazy. Every entry is in Lorem Ipsum and proposed translations are provided in this post which also indicates it’s been like it since 2012. I can’t find any…

  • Windows couldn’t be activated – DNS name does not exist – how to fix it

    Windows couldn’t be activated – DNS name does not exist – how to fix it

    On Windows 7, 8 and Server 2012 you may see this error when trying to activate Windows. ‘Windows couldn’t be activated. Error code 0x8007232B’. Error description: DNS name does not exist.’ It seems that this is absolutely nothing to do with DNS, and the usual tricks of flushing the DNS cache with ipconfig /flushdns doesn’t…

  • Error 1310 writing to config.msi

    Error 1310 writing to config.msi

    ‘Error 1310 writing to config.msi’. I’ve seen this quite a few times now and thought I ought to share it for anyone struggling to fix the problem. When uninstalling (possibly also installing or repairing although I haven’t come across those instances) a program on Windows, you may see ‘Error 1310. Error writing to file C:\Config.Msi’ with…

  • Someone is currently logged into the APC Management Web Server

    Someone is currently logged into the APC Management Web Server

    If you get a page saying ‘Someone is currently logged into the APC Management Web Server. Please try again later.’ when trying to connect to a managed APC PDU via the web interface there are a couple of likely causes. Someone is connected via the serial port – this will always override any IP connection.…