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25 Apr, 2007

back in the saddle!

Posted by: admin In: personal|software|windows

I think I’ve finally cracked the various PC issues I’ve been having – last night I reinstalled XP on my laptop (again). I’d done a reinstall last week, but I’d neglected to format the HDD first; the upshot of which was my hard disk was almost completely full of folders XP wouldn’t let me delete. [...]

11 Dec, 2006

Testing IE6 & IE7 on the same machine

Posted by: admin In: browsers

Since the arrival of IE7 there have been a number of workarounds developed to enable designers & developers to test their site in IE6 & IE7 on the same machine. However, none of these have been entirely successful; for example the standalone version of IE6 I had installed didn’t work with html conditional comments, so [...]

07 Nov, 2006

Make Windows XP look nicer

Posted by: admin In: software

If like me you spend a lot of your day looking at a PC then you want it to be as easy on the easy as possible. The standard Windows XP look does get quite boring after a while, so for the last year or so I have had the Royale theme installed on both [...]


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