Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Mar 01 2010

HOWTO: Fix Windows 7 Profiles (desktop icons not load)

Published by PrometheusX under Computers

My desktop machine (Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit x64) recently stopped loading icons when I logged in. The start menu and and everything seemed to work except my Desktop.  After scouring the web there seemed to be a few proposed solutions:

System Restore
Explorer isn’t running/ registry WinLogon or userinit.exe isn’t properly set
Too large files on Desktop (I [...]

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Jan 04 2010

Snow Leopard, 7, and Ubuntu, Oh My!

Published by PrometheusX under Computers

Being home from school for the break I took it upon myself to finally upgrade my macbook from Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) — intended to be a relatively trivial upgrade, I somehow managed to stumble the whole way through. This was the last of my 3 Operating Systems [...]

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