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When your Windows Install is completely broken [solution]

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Percy Kwong

It happens to all of us at one time or another.  Our Windows installation or PC starts giving us errors for no apparent reason.  Things break, applications don’t work, We go to uninstall a program and the uninstaller is completely broken.  The problem is it leaves a huge mess in your registry, filesystem, as well…

Editing Video Files in Windows very Easily

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Percy Kwong

There will be the occasional time when you need to edit a video file, because you’ll need to, whether it’s a Family video or a simple file you need for marketing, fundraising, etc. You just might want to put a few captions on a file. For humor, informational reasons, etc. Rather than buy one of…

Windows 7 Backup and the realities. A Real World Experience.

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I run Windows as my main OS, but I run it on Mac Hardware.  Why? Do you ask?   The answer is simple. Apple / Mac Hardware is superior to everything else out there.  Where can you get Desktop Performance on a Laptop without worrying about anything else?  Yes, I can buy a Lamborghini laptop,…

Using Amazon’s free tier to get your own FREE personal vpn server and connection.

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve written about personal vpn servers and the great things round strongvpn and other vpn providers to get around the ISP throttling problem of Netflix.  I always figured there was a better way to do it. Well, after a bit of thought, I realized that one could easily use Amazon’s free tier (a micro-instance) for…

A Follow Up to Using the Promise R4/R6 natively in Bootcamp using my solution. [Solved and Verified]

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Percy Kwong

A few months ago, I posted the following:  http://swimminginthought.com/2012/01/promise-pegasys-r6r4-on-windows-bootcamp-solved/  I figured out the solution on how to run this wonderful device on Bootcamp / Windows natively.  Needless to say, it’s been a while now and I’ve even gone so far as to update the firmware on the R4/R6  (I’m running an R6 by the way)….

Word or Office Application could not create the work file check the temp environment variable [Solved]

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Percy Kwong

If you all of a sudden get this error, don’t fret.  Just do the following: open Regedit (as administrator) from the Start / run prompt or just open a dos window and type regedit.exe Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell Folders You should see a key called: Cache registry key Double-click on it and change it’s value…

Promise Pegasys R6 R4 on Windows Bootcamp [SOLVED]

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Percy Kwong

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Promise Pegasus R6/R4 on Windows Bootcamp [SOLVED]

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’m a Windows and a MAC User.  It really chaps my knickers that I went out and bought a brand new Promise R4/R6 RAID Array only to find out I can’t use it with Bootcamp.  (Having an SSD in my Macbook Pro is great, but space is at a premium). Apple doesn’t want to help,…

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