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The other day I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;
The broadband in our business network would randomly disconnect throughout the day. We also experienced fluctuating Internet speeds throughout the day sometimes bringing web access to an absolute crawl.
The solution and description to this error is set out below;
The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;
Outlook was stuck in a continuous loop in Send/Receive at around 50%. It seemed to be downloading mails byte by byte but could not complete the task. Also, the application itself was constantly hanging and bringing the pc to a standstill
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The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows:
Connecting to a VPN fails, giving error code 1717
Solution:
1. In Windows Vista: Click Start , type regedit in the Search box, and then press ENTER.
(If User Account Control is enabled it will prompt for confirmation.)
In Windows XP: Click Start, then click ‘Run…’ and type regedit, and then click OK
2. Browse to the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RasMan
3. In the right panel, open the DependOnService key and delete SstpSvc entry.
4. Reboot the and check if you can dial theVPN connection now.
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The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows:
The problem was when logging into windows, it immediately logged off automatically. This was the same for each user account and even attempting to log in using Safe Mode.
This turned out to be due to userinit.exe not running correctly. A virus had hijacked the log in process, running its own executable instead of userinit.exe. A registry key referencing userinit.exe had been altered.
The solution is as follows:
The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;
I was trying to access a network share in a small peer-to-peer network and it would take between 30-60 seconds just to show the contents of the folder. The folder did contain a few thousand files but it still should not have taken this long to populate the folder.
The solution and description to this error is set out below;
The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;
While using my laptop my screen suddenly turned upside down for no apparent reason.
The solution and description to this error is set out below;
The reason why this happened was because the display drivers had Hotkeys enabled. See image below (Where I disabled).
You most likely (depending on your software) hit CONTROL, ALT and the DOWN ARROW which caused your screen to rotate.
To fix, you can try CONTROL, ALT and UP ARROW to return the screen to normal. Alternatively, stand on your head 
and navigate to your control panel and find the graphics icon such as NVIDIA, ATI or INTEL, etc where you can make the necessary changes.
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The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;
After running automatic updates on a Windows 2000 computer, I received the following failure message after trying to install the latest updates; “Some updates could not be installed”
The solution and description to this error is set out below;
1. Click Start, click Run, type ‘cmd’ , and then click OK.
2. From the black command prompt, type ‘net stop wuauserv’, and then press ENTER.
3. At the command prompt, type ‘regsvr32 %windir%\system32\wups2.dll’ , and then press ENTER. Click OK to proceed.
4. You need to then restart the Automatic Updates service. To do this, type the following at the command prompt ‘net start wuauserv’.
5. Exit the command prompt. To do this type exit, and then press ENTER.
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The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows.
To remove and replace the keyboard on some laptops can involve some work. Here is the procedure to remove the keyboard on a HP Pavillion DV6000.
There’s no one way to remove viruses, spyware and general pc problems. Your best bet is to throw as much as possible at these threats. Try the following;
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If you are setting up an Irish Broadband address in a Client (such as Outlook), then you will require the POP3 and SMTP server details
POP3 (Incoming) Server: pop3.irishbroadband.ie
SMTP (Outgoing) Server: smtp.irishbroadband.ie.
