by Neil | Oct 1, 2016 | Windows 7
For a few months now, after replacing hard drives or doing clean installs of Windows Home Premium or Professional SP1 which I install from a deployment server, i have been unable to update windows with any updates at all, I tried using dvd versions to see if it made...
by Neil | Mar 5, 2015 | Windows 7
Had a windows 7 system in the workshop last week with a strange issue, on boot you get the windows welcome screen, then a black screen with the cursor, it would stay like this for between 3-4mins with no disk activity at all, the cursor would move & numlock &...
by Neil | Nov 23, 2014 | Windows 7, Windows Vista
Had a Vista Home Premium PC in the workshop the other day infected with viruses & malware, after being fully cleaned started getting a warning in the tray saying that the Windows Security Center could not be started.. After closer inspection of the services...
by Neil | Aug 14, 2014 | Windows 7
If you are very lucky & your motherboard Sata/IDE chipset is identical or very similar it may boot & you will just have to install all the new motherboard drivers. But more often than not, when you have fitted a new motherboard to your windows 7 PC, it will...
by Neil | Feb 25, 2014 | Office 2013, Outlook 2010, Windows 7
Had a problem crop up at a customers site with Outlook 2010 erroring with “Microsoft Outlook can’t start Microsoft InfoPath” every time Outlook was started, If you clicked Yes to repair, It didn’t, if you clicked No then Outlook performed as it...
by Neil | Jan 31, 2014 | Antvirus, Windows 7
Had a laptop come in yesterday as the owner could not find why the 230gb hard drive was full as they didn’t have hardly any data on the system, ran JDisk Report on the drive & found out where all disc space had been used, c:UsersFredApp...
