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Vodafone RAS error code 619 on E220 modem

Computer Help — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:19:36 +0000

A business customer told me that a company laptop would no longer connect to the internet using the Vodafone wireless 3G USB modem (an E220 modem) The Vodafone software would generate a RAS error...

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Vista SP1 error 80073712 and dialup internet (!)

Computer Help — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:07:49 +0000

This laptop was seriously confused. The customer lives in a remote area (no broadband, only dialup internet). He occasionally works in an office, where the laptop gets a chance at operating in a...

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AVG 8 firewall won’t switch off

Computer Help — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:07:23 +0000

I recently installed AVG 8 onto 2 PCs on behalf of a customer. This was the paid-for version… not the free one. After it was fully installed, I couldn’t see the other networked PC, and I...

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Computer Aid blog outage

Computer Help — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:34:24 +0000

As many of you will have noticed, the Computer Aid blog (and even the main website) stopped working for a few hours today. The joys of changing hosting companies. I was originally with...

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review of ie8 beta

Computer Help — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:33:44 +0000

I did a quick test of ie8 beta 2. I was hoping that microsoft had learnt something from their ie7 mistakes. My biggest gripe with ie7 is that the most used buttons (back, forward, refresh, stop,...

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firefox 3 doesn’t do multi core CPUs

Computer Help — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:59:40 +0000

I occasionally need to open about 50 websites in one hit… !!! Firefox 3 is great, in that its quick, and doesn’t chew up my system RAM. But sometimes I open up some badly written...

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