Category: Windows
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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…
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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…
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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…