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Fix MSN errors

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I just had some problems with logging on the Live services earlier today and I therefore decided to fix it, so clever I found a help article here: http://tinyurl.com/2qqc49 and I decided to to write a quick BASIC (*.bat) file to make a bit more automatic. I did that because I’m a lazy cow, as [...]

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Your ultimate virus scanner for MSN live

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Yeah since I don’t want to scan everything I receive over MSN I’ve noticed that MSN accepts any .exe file as the virusscanner. So my ultimate virus scanner is calc.exe in the %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\ folder. When you receive a file over MSN your calc.exe will start, just close it and your good! No need for the [...]

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The Cairo shell for Vista (so far)

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

I saw this amazing shiny shell on the on10.net blog a couple of days ago. A private alpha has just been released to a selected group. It’s nothing like the normal Windows Vista shell, well a bit, it’s see though but it’s (as I see it) a lot more functional and the taskbar (and start [...]

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