In IE7, adding your own custom search is beautifully simple now that Microsoft have added the Create Your Own to the ‘Find More Providers…’ link in IE7

So, it seems sensible that your blog would want a piece of the action.
To that end, here’s a quick example of my own search provider. As IE7 uses [...]

On some occasions, you might find yourself having to carry out a repair of Windows XP.
The process is as follows:

Insert Windows XP CD.
When prompted with the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER.
Press F8 to accept the EULA
Select the partition you wish to repair and then press R.

But what if the R=Repair option is not at [...]

I recently received my Windows Vista Business Upgrade through the post.
Microsoft seem to have really wanted to restrict the use of clean installations. With an upgrade licence, when you try to install Vista by booting from the DVD or CD, it will tell you that Vista cannot be installed.
Unfortunately, if you want a clean installation [...]

Following my Word to PDF convertor script, here is the Excel version.
Prerequisites
MS Excel 2007
Office 2007 Save As PDF Plugin
Same rules apply. Copy and paste the code into notepad and save onto the desktop as ExceltoPdf.vbs.
‘Excel to PDF
‘By John Reid
‘(c) 2007 bloggingIT – http://ccgi.maxpower.plus.com/wp

‘Feel free to use, modify, and redistribute – just leave the credits intact

‘Quick [...]

Sometimes I find that it’s useful to save my Word documents as PDFs.
After playing around with the Save As PDF plugin for Office, I decided that it would be cool if I could write a script to convert a job lot of Word documents.
Prerequisites
MS Word 2007
Save As PDF Office 2007 Plugin
Just copy and paste the [...]

Inline search
For people fed up with the CTRL+F search function in IE, there’s a handy addon that acts (almost) in the same manner as the Firefox find bar.
It’s now on version 1.3, which has resolved some tiny bugs that used to get me wound up.
It doesn’t integrate as nicely into IE7 as I would [...]