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Excel 2000 crashing upon startup excel.exe being faulted within Event Viewer
Tuesday, 30 Mar, 2010 – 12:36 | No Comment

If you’re having problems with this ancient piece of software, try doing a search for an .xlb file and re-naming said xlb file to .xlbold.  This fixed the problem for myself.

Quota Underflow blue screen of death BSOD on Windows 7 64-bit
Thursday, 25 Mar, 2010 – 9:28 | 2 Comments

Looks like came across something new for Windows 7 64-bit.  Blue screen while using random programs like Chrome, FireFox, Internet Explorer, and the Memory.dmp file is indicating a quota underflow issue.  It does not pin …

Microsoft Word 2007 crashes upon exit
Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 – 22:05 | No Comment

If you experience this it’s due to an update that was installed.
Go to your registry and delete the following key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data

Mix 2010 and Internet Explorer 9
Tuesday, 16 Mar, 2010 – 7:16 | No Comment

So Microsoft has released a developer preview of IE9.  It is not a full working browser, it’s really a slimmed down version only intended for people to see what IE9 will bring, not meant to …

Unlocking and jailbreaking Apple’s iPhone 2g (first iPhone ever released)
Saturday, 6 Mar, 2010 – 14:37 | One Comment

So I have an iPhone 2g.  I had the 3.0 software installed but wanted to go up to 3.1.3. due to a few programs requesting that I have 3.1 installed.
I started out the day thinking …

Western Digital external hard drive – SMARTWARE AKA CRAPWARE
Wednesday, 3 Mar, 2010 – 7:54 | No Comment

Dear Western Digital,
I’m writing on behalf of millions of users out there who wish to tell you that we do not like you forcing your crapware smartware upon us.  We ask that you get rid …

Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 problems with Internet Explorer
Monday, 1 Mar, 2010 – 8:37 | 2 Comments

I use Reader 9.3.1. here at work and Acrobat 9.3 at home.  When I’m at home, I can’t open or view PDF files without Acrobat crashing.
When I’m here at work, I can open up a …