Jason Slater Weblog

From time to time our users receive this warning in a dialog box when trying to launch a particular 16-bit application:
“S32evnt1.dll. An installable Virtual Device Driver failed DLL initialization”
Symantec have a work around for this particular problem here.
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The free version of Google Apps is on trial over here and now it’s up and running we can take it for a spin to see what it offers our ever increasing roaming user base. The other systems we are looking at are Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server and Office Live Workspace.
Google Apps offers online [...]

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A Vista laptop is having trouble starting up. The black boot up screen appears and the scrolling bar appears for a a few moments then the screen goes blank and all hard disk activity appears to cease. I experienced something similar a week or two ago on a neighbours laptop and, on that laptop, it [...]

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There are many ways of making the Favorites items more flexible, for example using Google Bookmarks and once Favorites are imported into the new platform you may wish to remove the old ones. Deleting them one by one can be time consuming, fortunately there are ways of deleting them all relatively quickly.
To do this click [...]

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dID yOU eVER tYPE sOMETHING lIKE tHIS iN wOrd? then found that you had to delete it all and re-type it using the proper case. In Word you can highlight the text and press SHIFT and F3, it will cycle between lower case with a capitalised first letter, upper case and lower case.

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