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Problems exporting favourites from Internet Explorer 11

This entry was posted in IE Software Tips Windows 10 on August 6, 2020 by HAL

While preparing an new client laptop I  came across the situation where exporting the favourites from Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 failed. Given I’d done this many times – the surprise was when “Some settings were not exported successfully” was displayed. In addition the file that I had specified wasn’t empty as I might […]

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Bad state: No element error when creating Aqueduct project?

This entry was posted in Aqueduct Dart Flutter Tips on June 19, 2020 by HAL

While getting tooling set up for a Dart server side app – it was a surprise to receive an error when creating the first piece of the application with an aqueduct create first_project command. The surprise was that everything in the setup and installation of Dart in Visual Studio Code and the installation of Chocolatey […]

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Error code 80243004 updating windows PC

This entry was posted in Software Tips Windows 8 on June 17, 2020 by HAL

This is a short one but hopefully if you come across this – its a headscratcher! The PC in question had updated just under a month ago without issue and when its was noticed that there were some updates available – the result of applying them was the error code 80243004. Stopping the windows update […]

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Window 10 Version 2004 – whats new?

This entry was posted in Software Tips Windows 10 on June 15, 2020 by HAL

The first thing that strikes me about the new release is the additional of a tool that helps figure out why a windows 10 update fails. Having spent too much time working out the vagaries of why a particular model of PC or even a particular PC fails to update when other “identical” models don’t […]

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Synology update DSM 6.2.3 and shared iscsi targets missing ?

This entry was posted in Storage Synology on May 26, 2020 by HAL

Problems with ISCSI targets after DSM update

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We are back – Printing Swift code with line numbers from Xcode!

This entry was posted in Swift SwiftUI Xcode on May 20, 2020 by HAL

Xcode printing line numbers

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Error 1920 installing Sophos Management console 5.52 on Server 2016

This entry was posted in Sophos Tips and tagged Error 1920 Sophos Sophos Enterprise Console on March 3, 2020 by HAL

This is just a short article – lost a day investigating this so I wanted to get something up for any one else who run into this. The background was a clean  installation on a Windows 2016 server running Exchange 2016. No errors or issues reported during that install. The installer was downloaded as normal […]

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You already have another console session in progress ?

This entry was posted in Software Tips and tagged RDP Windows 7 on February 24, 2020 by HAL

Given the “imminent” demise of Windows 7 – this was an interesting one which may well be Windows 7 specific. A client had been accessing a desktop PC via RDP  across a VPN when they reported a error. The dialogue read “Your  computer could not connect to another console session because you already have a […]

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