The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living – Socrates
Tech Support
MSN Live Messenger Error 8100030d – Fixed!
May 24th
8100030d error msn messenger 2011 not working under windows 7
Every website I found has links to solutions that don’t work. The ONLY solution if you have cleared your cache and deleted your contacts folder is to download and install the 2009 version under windows 7.
This is the only way! However, good luck finding the 2009 version anywhere unless you have an old drive squirreled away somewhere that has the old installer. Luckily I did.
WD MyBook Bad Sectors Fix
Mar 27th
So I have been busy, mostly filling in the pages of my fitness blog over at Something To Prove or working on the Jeep replacing brakes in what seemed like a never ending litany of errors and mistakes. Long story short I have still got the pulsing in the brakes but I think I am getting closer to a solution.
Anyway, yesterday the MyBook stopped working. It claims that there are too many bad sectors and the unit just stops responding and I am unable to copy anything to or from it. The solution? I went to Best Buy and picked up the Aluratek Hard Drive Docking Enclosure and so far I am able to copy files off slowly. The drive still disconnects, but not as much and it looks like I will be able to rescue the files and reformat the drive. Maybe it is the fact it is always plugged in and the computer sleeps often, I am not sure, but the bottom line is that the unit has failed. No other enclosure I have bought has ever failed this way, just the WD.
Moral? WD Drives are good as internal drives, but the MyBook is suspect in my estimation.
Tech Support Post – Excel “Cannot empty clipboard”
Sep 14th
There are plenty of scatterbrained ideas as to why this error occurs. I have tried all the fixes on the internet none of which worked. However, the indication that it is something to do with a RDP or VNC connection prompted me to try stopping my DameWare daemon and wouldn’t you know, it stopped.
So before you tear your hair out. Try to think of ANY remote access software you are running, inbound or outbound and shut it down. Odds are, it will fix your problem as it did mine.
HP Ipaq restore
Apr 5th
So my IPAQ died again, since I have been off work for a while and left the device in my jacket. The last time this happened I lost everything and so I was diligent this time to backup the thing at every sync.
When I booted it this morning and attached it to my laptop and tried the restore it told me that it could not complete the restore because the file was created with a different mobile device.
Interesting.
So I recalled what I had read online (after hours of searching) and remembered that I had to update the ROM first. So I went to the HP site and downloaded the update and installed it.
Still no luck.
So I checked the help button that accompanied the error message and believe it or not, it actually helped! It mentioned that if the environmental settings are not the same as when you made the backup it will not work. So I changed the settings to my local time and lo and behold it worked like a charm.
It did however take quite a long time to complete which threw me off a bit but with a little patience I had my device back and running (albeit without the main password) in about 15 minutes.