I like to keep a record of general ICT issues I’ve resolved so I have something to refer back to if they reoccur. Keeping this publicly-available may have the benefit that the list is crawled, indexed and may benefit someone out.
I was having a few issues with games and chat on the Xbox 360. The device should use uPnP for port forwarding but this was problematic for me. Firstly I needed to setup the games console with an IP address that would stay the same so I did this in the router’s settings so that DHCP always assigned the same IP to the MAC address of the console.
Read moreThis will prevent the user from showing up on the welcome screen. You will need to press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice at the logon screen to get the old W2K logon style box to be able to logon to the account you’ve hidden. Adding a username and setting the value to 1 will cause that user, such as Administrator, to show up on the Welcome screen as well.
Read moreThis Outlook macro will politely remind you to attach a file if it finds the word “attach” in your email and no actual attached file.
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