Watch Cam on Chris Pirillo
Posted on 22. Aug, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in living with a PC
Just back from lunch with Dr Peter Ellyard and a spontaneous Twitter meetup lunch with Nick Hodge, Garth Kidd, Andew Barnett and Froosh (you’ll hear the show we recorded tomorrow), and I see Chris Pirillo has posted up a podcast of the live video show we did yesterday! Here it is:
How to force Vista to open links in Firefox!
Posted on 08. Jul, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in living with a PC, technology
Thank Science! I finally found out how to stop Vista opening links in IE instead of Firefox! This has been bugging the hell out of me since I started using Vista months ago. I found the answers on this site. The secret formula is:
Start button > Control Panel > Programs > Default Programs > Set program access and computer defaults
Thank You Spybot S&D!
Posted on 03. May, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in living with a PC
As you know, I have had a particularly tricky virus on my PC which, apart from popping up sites all the time, had disabled my ability to restart, shutdown or hibernate my PC.
I tried AVG, Windows Defender and Ad-Aware. None of them got rid of it. Tonight I finally installed Spybot S&D and guess what! It found the little bugger, healed it, and when I re-booted (manually shutting the power off) – the problem is solved. I can shutdown again! Hooray! Thank you Spybot S&D.
Shutdown, Restart, Run, Hibernate all missing
Posted on 27. Apr, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in living with a PC
I’ve got some serious virus action happening on Vista. Last night I noticed I couldn’t run Task Manager. It had been greyed out. I also don’t have Shutdown, Restart, Run, Hibernate – they are all missing from the ORB. I’ve spent a bit of time today investigating and it seems to be either virus or scumware related. So I’ve run a bunch of things today – Windows Defender, AVG AV, Lavasoft AdAware – and they found a bunch of crap which I deleted, so at least I got Task Manager back – but still no ShutDown etc.
So I don’t know what to do from here. Bloody annoying.
Oh and the first person who says “Buy A Mac” gets slapped with a fish.