Author Archives: Stephen

Error (0xc0000225) installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Stephen

What I thought would be very quick and easy, to install Windows 7 on Virtual Box, led me having to do some googling after getting the error: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might … Continue reading →

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Carving and Merging Multiple PDF Documents – Pdftk

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Stephen

I had a few hundred PDF documents and I wanted to take the first page of each PDF and put them into 1 single PDF document. Enter: Pdftk – The PDF Toolkit Downloading the Zip file, and in the bin folder … Continue reading →

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Windows chkdsk Log

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Stephen

The Windows chkdsk log takes quite a long time to run. You’ll probably want to run it overnight. After the chkdsk runs, a summary screen appears for a while and then disappears as Windows boots up. To find out the … Continue reading →

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Notes: windirstat & wireless repeater

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Stephen

To find the files and folders taking up the most space on your computer, google for the following and download. It does require a quick install, but when installed, works very well. windirstat ——————————– If you have an old Eircom … Continue reading →

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Reset Windows Passwords for Vista, 7, and 2008 Server

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Stephen

On one of my VMs with Windows 2008 Server, I needed to reset the Administrator password. A quick google led me to a very nice little trick. This also works for Windows Vista, Windows 7 as well as on Windows … Continue reading →

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