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  • Windows7 God Mode

    Get all your settings in one place with this tip…

     

     

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  • Next Generation Access

    I am in print talking about NGA here, in case you were interested.

  • AVG to the Rescue

    I’ve always liked AVG Free but recently I’ve seen a few systems struggle after an update. So it is worth you knowing about the AVG rescue CD….

  • In praise of Acronis Migrate Easy 7

    Simple post this one. Buy the above mentioned product. If you run out of disk space, plug a new drive in, run the wizard and all your stuff is copied to the new drive. It works. It is painless. It will save hours of reinstalling everything. It works with Windows 7.

  • IPv6 – Are you ready?

    I wrote a blog on my work website about IPv6 because I kept meeting customers with no clue about IPv6 but were worried about the hype.

    Now that those in the know seem to have more of an act together, we are about to hit a different hurdle.

    Most of the big networks (including mine) run dual-stack. This means any devices that need to see the “v6 Internet” are given an IPv6 address. There is nothing in the network for traditional IPv4 devices to see this new world, mainly because there are lots of approaches and no common standard. To be honest though, dual-stack is simplest to implement, understand and use.

    The avaerage home broadband user on the other hand has an IPv4 address, behind a router that probably only does IPv4 into a network that most likley has IPv6 hidden in a corner. It is when these guys start feeling the pinch about address space that things will step-change.

    There will be a land-grab for IPv4 addresses in the meantime as changing to IPv6 costs money. Keeping IPv4 doesn’t. Except for buying up any available IPv4 assets. When those prices start getting silly, economic principles dictate that IPv6 takes over.

    Until then, you can always see how ready you are for the new World: http://test-ipv6.com/

  • O2 Broadband DHCP

    After giving up on trying to get my O2 Broadband box to give out the right DHCP settings, I found this article: http://www.o2help.co.uk/change-lan-ip/

    The trick is to change our IP address to one in the same subnet as the DHCP scope, turn off DHCP, edit it and turn it on again.

  • Make Life Easier

    There are a few tools that will make life easier for any PC user. There are two that I feel would make any of you out there wonder how you survived without them before.

     

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  • Windows Update Failing

    Windows Update not working? Error 80072EFE? You may have a virus.

     

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  • Windows Security Center missing under Windows 7

    Malware most likely. Have recreated it:

    C:\Windows\system32>sc create wscsvc binPath= “C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalServiceNetworkRestricted” depend= RpcSc/WinMgmt obj= “NT AUTHORITY\LocalService” DisplayName= “Security Center”

    But still no joy in getting it to start. mmmm

  • O2 Broadband and SIPGate

    Got the new shiny O2 BRoadband box working. I opted for a static IP address.

    Shame the Thomson TG587nv2 doesn’t allow Administrator to telnet in AND that user, being the default one only has limited rights. But I still kind of got SIPgate working:

    Toolbox – Firewall
    Assign a game or app…..
    Create a “new game or application” called SIP:
    5060-5060 Any
    16384-32766 (or whatever your start and finish data ports are in your phone config)

    Apply this to your phone:
    SIP 10.x.x.x. Apply

    Then my phone registers with SIPgate on port 50981 for reasons I am yet to fathom. But it all still works. Bit odd though.

     

    Annoyingly also, it insist on the DHCP pool being 192.168.0.0 rather than the 10.x.x.x range I use. It happily takes a second IP address though. Currenly my static devoces are on 10.x.x.x and anything new goes on 192.168.x.x  which works but is pants.