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After Avast pulled a bug off a computer, I could not get internet connectivity.

The usual netsh commands didn't help.

A number of other small tests such as net stop dnscache didn't help.

LSPFix found something and removed it, but that didn't help.

In the end, a small freeware utility Winsockfix.exe from http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/WinSockFix-Download-15337.html did the job :)

Afterwards, HitMan Pro found a few bits of bugs left over that SpybotSD, MBAM, and MSSS didn't notice.

... well mine kept freezing after the upgrade anyway. Uninstalled and downgraded to 9.0.1 and all good now. Might have started freezing when I was attaching google images into an email's body.

(Also known as "Why is Mullvad Slow on Xp, how to fix Mullvad being slow on XP - which sadly I don't know.)

G'day :)

Just a quick note that Mullvad might be slow on Windows XP. The website notes that there might be a way to force it to use TCP instead of UDP, but doesn't really tell you how to do that. Google was no help either really.

In my two XP test cases (one raw, one VM), I couldn't get above 250kbps, whereas Windows 7 and Ubuntu could get to 4000kbps.

The Ubuntu Unity machine eventually froze.

I've had three computers in the last week crash with this error at startup.

Two of them I know had a modified termserv.dll (or is it termsrv.dll) to enable multiple concurrent logins on XP.

In another case, I had an error the ordinal 681 could not be located. That was because I copied the wrong iertutil.dll - you need one from a Windows XP machine running IE8. (I grabbed one from an IE7 machine first time.)

If you make that mistake, you will need to use recovery console, or boot from a Linux Mint CD or Memory Stick in order to replace the file.

G'day all :)

Recently my partner broke her digitiser glass on her HTC Sensation.

I ordered a replacement digitiser from eBay, and fitted it.

It worked well for a couple of days, then started going mental.

To diagnose the fault, I downloaded "Piano For You" https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pash.piano&hl=en - since it makes it really easy to see and hear what's going wrong. In my case C# was also triggering Bb and Ab.

It turned out in my haste to reassemble (stephanie) the phone, I didn't really do much of a job with the adhesive; which allowed hand cream, chocolate, or god knows what to sneak into the side of the phone between the phone and the digitiser, creating a 'conductive short' if you like down the right side of the phone.

Fortunately, this tardiness meant it was easy enough to pry the digitiser away from the phone, as seen below:

This time I ran adhesive right around the edge, resting it diagonally along the ridge of the phone's shell so that the LCD would force it both down and outwards.

So far, since then it's been behaving :)

This might not work for other people, but it worked for me.

IBM does not have a Windows 7 driver on their website for this machine.

Instead, follow the steps at http://forums.techguy.org/windows-7/943982-solved-windows-7-driver-intel.html to download the Driver update for Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family from http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=Intel%2082915G%2FGV%2F910GL

Extract the contents of the "Cab in a Zip" file, then tell Windows 7 to use that driver even though it doesn't want to.

(Only tested on 32 bit Windows 7.)

G'day :)

Do you have a Samsung RV510 that crashes when switching to battery power, or comes up with errors such as "Desktop Window Manager" has had a problem, or assorted other BSODs.

Try going into Samsung easy display manager and unticking all the options - this seems to have resolved the issue for me.

Cheers, Mike.

EDIT: Spoke too soon, it's still stuffed. Ended up doing a complete wipe and reload to resolve the problem. Never really tracked down the cause, but Desktop Window Manager would crash each time switching to battery, or BSOD.

A customer gave me one of these after the local electronics repair guy couldn't fix it.

The problem with this one was that once it was warm it would work OK, but from cold you either couldn't turn it on at all, or it would turn on then become non-responsive to button presses.

My first instinct was to replace all caps on the power board, but that didn't make any difference. So, after reading http://www.fixya.com/support/t668400-acer_al2671w_stuck_in_standby I tried replacing C380 as well, and the problem appears solved.

C380 is right next to a heatsink solder-to-PCB interface of a nearby component, so it probably has its life shortened due to heat.

Here's a photo of C380 - I didn't have a 100uF around, so gave it a 220uF instead.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s7XZp3-rT7g/TyEaXDxTw8I/AAAAAAAAFfI/4dsEHZKtzv8/s800/2012-01-26%25252020.08.10.jpg

Cheers, Mike.

PS - As a side note, the power cable to the main board has multiple 12 and 5V rails. The brown wire remains hot 5V all the time, the others only when powered on.

Also known as QuickBooks Online Edition, QuickBooks Cloud Edition, backup fails, backup hangs 97% 99%

Today a customer tried to back up a 170MB from QuickBooks Online Edition by using Save Copy or Backup and selecting their local drive.

The backup didn't complete after an hour - a temp file appeared and grew suddenly from about 2MB to 138MB or thereabouts, but then grew at a rate of about 20kb per minute.

An online chat with QB support staff yielded an effective but non-obvious solution, and also advised that the info at https://qboe.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1774/kw/backup/r_id/103898 only applies to US customers.

Here's the solution that worked for us

1 - Perform a "Local backup" to the Q:\ drive.
2 - When the backup finishes, choose "Restore" in Quickbooks Online Edition, but DON'T follow all the way through
3 - Click ONCE on the file you want to have on your own computer, and while it's highlighted hold down Ctrl and press C. (This copies the file to your clipboard, but nothing will happen on screen.)
4 - Minimise the QuickBooks Online Edition
5 - Find a place to copy your backup to, right click therein and choose Paste.

The file should copy from their server to yours at a rate of about 2.5Mbps if your line can go that fast. (8 minutes for the 170MB file)

Hope this helps someone out there! The QuickBooks online support pages are not date stamped and there's plenty of old and possibly out of date info there.

Many Australian programmers know that Access handles dates by default in the US date format, and this can be a pain when trying to use DLOOKUP to find data.

An easy way to cheat is to create a field called "IndexDate" in your query, and set it to be
IndexDate: Format([YourDate],"#")

This IndexDate field then contains the excel-style five digit date number.

You can then use that in your Dlookup:

MyField: DLookUp("[Field]","TableName","[Date] = " & [IndexDate])