Get rid of annoying 3-5 black screen during Vista boot February 23, 2009
Posted by Cowboy in Uncategorized.Tags: boot, vista
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This normally occcurs when Vista searches for external monitors on startup of Vista. If you are not using an external monitor…turn TMM off.
Start->control panel (Classic)->administrative tools->task scheduler.
Expand “Task Scheduler Library”… “Microsoft”… “Windows”… “MobilePC”
Click “TMM”, and on the right-hand side, click “Disable”
Simply Accounting won’t load company over network February 20, 2009
Posted by Cowboy in Uncategorized.Tags: accounting, network, simply
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If you find you can load a company file locally, but not over a network share, your DNS server / router may be the problem.
You can confirm this by determining the ip address of the computer with the file (eg: \CATHY ) and finding out it’s ip address using ipconfig on that machine.
Then try and access the machine using the ip address (eg: \192.168.1.101 ) If it works, complain to your IT department, or in my case Telus.
WD External Drive shows as unformatted February 8, 2009
Posted by Cowboy in Uncategorized.Tags: passport, unformatted, WD, Western Digital
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If the external HD was working fine but now the drive letter showed up in “my computer”, and Windoze wants you to format it (Shows up in device manager as healthy/active). Probably the Boot Sector or Partition information has been damaged.
Download TestDisk and repair the Boot Sector:
