John ponders why he’s always going to bed an hour late when he dual boots between Windows and Linux, and tries to switch Windows to use UTC time.

Some grief today as I found that Vista wasn’t behaving with user profiles. Whenever a user attempted to logon, he or she would be greeted with the following popup:
Your user profile was not loaded correctly!
You have been logged on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log [...]

If you happen to have an Intel PRO1000 network card, you may come across the following error when you open up control panel in Windows:
Intel PROset
resources are not available
The problem for me stemmed from repairing an installation of Windows.
With the Intel Pro-network cards, the software that comes bundled with them includes advanced network components that [...]

Microsoft have posted a KB article to manually create ADM and ADMX files which will allow you to manage the search providers in Internet Explorer 7’s Search Box.
This can be very useful for admins who only want certain sites to be searchable across their domain (such as an intranet!)

After when deploying Internet Explorer 7 around your site through a service such as WSUS, there are immediate considertaions that have to be dealt with. The main one being configuring settings for IE7.
It is possible to download the Internet Explorer Administration Toolkit (IEAK), but when dealing with IE7 that has been installed on computers automatically [...]

When fixing people’s internet, it’s common to try and get onto the router or modem through a web interface.
Manuals are usually difficult to find, so there is an excellent page at kitz.co.uk which outlines a fine array of adsl hardware and their passwords – as well as how to get to the page to check [...]