My Xbox 360 started freezing up last night while playing Final Fantasy XIII. The problem is particular to that game, but it seems like a GPU issue.
Fixing Word 2007 add-in issues with a registry merge
How to troubleshoot Word 2007 add-in issues and quickly restore functionality via a registry merge file.
Fixed: iPod touch 2G unbootable with a blank display
How I fixed what appeared to be a truly bricked iPod touch 2G. It showed zero signs of life: the screen remained blank and the device would not power on.
Help Desk – XP and Office 2007
A repository of quick fixes for various issues that arise in the Windows XP, Office 2007, Hummingbird DM, GroupWise environment.
Windows 7 time off when dual booting Fedora Linux
I’m dual booting Linux (Fedora 11 with Gnome) and Windows 7. If I set the time in Windows, then boot into Linux, the time remains correct. When I boot back into Windows, the time is off by a few hours. After some reading, it seems that Linux is using UTC time and Windows is using [...]
Circumventing Cisco Security Agent
How to edit the registry to disable the Cisco Security Agent service.
VMware “Cannot open the disk ‘XXXXXX.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.”
How to resolve the issue where VMware expects to find a missing snapshot file and will not boot the virtual machine.
Fixed: USB drive unusable, unformattable, and reporting 0 bytes capacity
Fixing a USB flash drive that pops up “Please insert a disk into drive X:.” when the drive letter is clicked, reports 0 bytes capacity in the properties, and cannot be formatted in Windows.
Fixing the flickering in an external LCD connected to a laptop
How to resolve the horizontal flickering that appears on an LCD screen attached to a laptop.
PHP pages return a 404 error on IIS
I was installing PHP 5 on an IIS 6 server when I ran into what turns out to be a pretty common problem. PHP appeared to be installed correctly, but browsing to any page with a .php extension returned a 404 Page Not Found error. While the steps below fixed this for me, I had [...]