Posts by thomasthetanker
39 posts • joined Thursday 12th April 2007 07:29 GMT
But no mention of the outage that is affecting 50% of Blackberrys service today? Don't worry, I'll get my news The Telegraph. If I need regurgitated blogspam I know where to come.
Alternatively with no Reg tweaks
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/608ecca8-b815-4ff6-8f3c-a828518434a7
INSTRUCTIONS:
01. Reboot your computer while it's starting up.
02. When your computer starts up again, choose the option "Launch Startup Repair"
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03. When the Startup repair starts, click cancel.
04. After you click cancel it will show a box. Click "Don't Send"
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05. Click the link "View advanced options for recovery and support"
06. In the new window click Command Prompt at the bottom.
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07. In Command Prompt type this and press enter: %windir%\system32\notepad.exe
08. Notepad will open. In notepad go to File-->Open.
09. Change the type of files notepad views from .txt to All Files (see pic)
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10. Now in Notepad, go to C:\Windows\winsxs\ (or whichever drive Windows is installed on)
11. In that folder, find pending.xml and make a copy of it
12. Now open the original pending.xml (it will load really slow because the file is huge)
13. Press CNTRL+F and search for the following exactly: 0000000000000000.cdf-ms
14. Delete the following text (yours will be a little different):
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Your PC might not have all 3 sections of code (, , ). Just make sure you delete section "Checkpoint" and whatever other sections have "000000000000000.cdf-ms". They will be right next to eachother.
15. Save the file, close notepad, close command prompt, restart your computer.
Once your computer starts up, do a normal startup (it may stall for 5-10 minutes at the "starting windows" screen, but leave it going) and the Service Pack will install some more stuff and restart a few times and then everything should be working! For some people, it reverts everything and cancels the service pack installation. For other people, the service pack installation completes. Either result is fine.
Tomorrow things will never be the same
Tomorrow iTunes homepage will display picture of The Beatles and a heading of 'Yesterday'?
Posted in The 99p mobile phone: What's the catch?
Argh!
Won't somebody please think of the terrorists?
Realisation dawns
Went past Regent Street on Sept 11th, thought it was some kind of Arabesque protest.
Yes, they were, just like flamingoes.
Posted in iPhone compass evidence surfaces
Essential
I've got a compass on my watch, great for deciding which exit you need on the tube or finding your way into/ out of Amsterdam's red light district.
Posted in Wikileaks publishes secret donor list
My moneys on..
Its a cunning bit of marketing.
Paris - because when she leaks its intentional
Posted in Asus Eee PC S101 luxury netbook
HP
Please can you add the HP to the test, maybe get rid of the apricot and the CW as this is the first I've heard of them and they look pretty rubbish anyway.
They've really slashed the price on this, just in time for Xmas or do you think they've got a different processor one coming out?
There's always one...
And this time its me!
Nice features, I've had a bash, quite happy, works well for me,
Paris - because she also got "Nice features, I've had a bash"
Bravo
Well done folks, comments were better than the article
Posted in London could get HD Freeview next year
Genius!
The region with the greatest number of people will be the last to benefit from HD
July the 7th?
Would this have prevented the events on July 7th?
No, suicide bombers want you to know who they are otherwise they wouldn't make those death videos.
Would Biometric passports have prevented July 7th?
No, the terrorists were born and bred in the UK
Gorey story
Al Gore didnt invent the internet, he invented the worlds first Powerpoint presentation as anyone who's seen An Inconvienient Truth will testify
Posted in London Stock Exchange limps back online
Do the maths
Five Nines = P45
Conspiracy theorists would say someone did it on purposeAs Chopper would say "You've got to ask yourself, who benefits?"
Posted in BBC fixes BT Home Hub auto-vomit bug
To Be or not to Be
If you're on Be surely you can afford to download and watch later rather than stream?
Flying...
If they can't tell the difference between a 14 year old and a 16 year old then Gary Glitter is collecting his ticket as we speak
Fanboi alert
Suddenly the mac Air book in an envelope ad seems prophetic
- Paris because she can empty my bag anytime
Posted in BBC to launch iPlayer for Wii
Question
If (theoretically) I didnt have a license and watched i Player through my Wii will i get a fine?
Old one..
Did you hear about the one about the blind circumsiser?
..he got the sack
swap
If Tiscali cut me off can't I just swap broadband provider or am I blacklisted and put on a national database?
Posted in Thais rate rat 'better than chicken'
Disc us
I'm sure Terry Pratchett is smiling down on all the Cutmeownthroat Diblah wannabe's
First
Oh, am I the only one that can't do any work because our websites down?
Posted in Connoisseurs go mad for £1,000 ham
Crash and Byrne
Sorry mate
Any one who buys 2 loaves of bread and has to throw one away because it goes mouldy is more accountable. This person has wasted food.
Stinking rich toffs who pay thousands are unlikely to waste any, also the pig has been fed on something inedible to humans anyway.
As the 3 stooges say "Put your nose in there porcine"
Happy birthday me
As you all know its my birthday today
Cakes are by the photocopier
Hurry before that dollop from accounts eats them all
Humble
Hands off Humble, she has sworn her undying devotion to me alone
Looks
Anyone else getting worried looks from co-workers as you read this?
Comments are easy but i can never think of a title
A seat on the UN Security Council beckons
Ian Banks - The Business
Posted in PSP owners to get Lost early 2008
Superfluous
Why on earth would I want this when I can have the enormous range and excellent value of UMD's?
igmc...
Posted in PS3 outsold Xbox 360 2:1 in Japan
Cheers Reg
For teaching me the meaning of micturate
10/10 for your efforts
Posted in ISPs face down Tories on file sharing
Spot on Camers
Thank goodness for someone who can clearly see through all the vested interests and spin to get right to the core of the problem
Its very similar to how I dealt with my junk mail problem, force the postman to eat any junk mail he pushes through my letterbox
Posted in Dell cleans up crapware
Its a no Win situation
Setup a XP Pro machine yesterday
83 Updates!!!!
So to get this machine even remotely useable takes an hour of clicking yes, yes, yes, several restarts and then I have to uninstall bloatware?!!!
Posted in Ubuntu chief mua muas Microsoft
Inevitable
Sure M$, drive it underground, that'll make it uncool...
Microsoft are like the little dutch boy with his finger in a dyke only this time its a tsunami
Making waves
Does it really matter?
Thousands of people died and now there's the prospect of a lasting peace. People might talk of journalistic integrity and accountability but we're ten years away from a post-mortem. All history will eventually be rewritten by hindsight and Hollywood scriptwriters.
Sorry to get all Lennonesque but when the dust settles the truth will out, Peace prizes are for the people of Ireland not their politicians.
Headlines?
I haven't seen the paper but did they have a headline of ' YOU MUST BE BAA-RKING' ?
Posted in 'Mary Celeste' yacht mystery puzzles Oz
Hasta la vista
Guess the laptop was running Vista and the owner just had enough and jumped overboard...
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Almost as ridiculous as anyone claiming that they really own a piece of the Earth
