Welcome to my random thoughs and discoveries, spilled here for your plundering!

Well, my first post, and one of the most useful time saving hacks that I have **EVER** found.  As you will get to know, I run a small computer repair shop in Chorley Lancashire in the UK.  Many many times per week we get customers bringing in their PC’s to be “fixed” the main problem always being the there just rammed with spyware, malware, virus’s and other windows killing faults.  Cool, just drag out Spybot, AVG, a good dose of MSConfig and away we go!  Well most of the time.  Then there are the ones that wont boot any more, same old fixes apply, infact you could get a monkey to fix half of the PC’s, Follow these simple steps, Chkdsk, Boot from AVG Rescue CD and do a full scan, Repair Install of Windows, once in Windows run Spybot, Clean AVG Install, Remove anything that didnt ship from Microsoft from starting up using Msconfig, then your’e done - 99% of faults cured!  Well - its not qute as simple as that as you will see as you browse round this site - the first problem i’m going to ramble/waffle about is what to do when the customers friends, mothers, uncles, cousins mate had a go at repairing it a while back and installed XP Pro with the world famous FCKGW cd Key!

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