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Posted on March 11, 2013 by Chris

Springfield House, Laurelhill Business Park, Stirling, FK7 9JQ Tel No: 01786 406448 Below is a list of some of the services I can offer you: Maintenance and repairs (PC and laptop).  This can be anything from replacement laptop screens to resetting your Windows … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 5, 2013 by Chris

Springfield House, Laurelhill Business Park, Stirling, FK7 9JQ Tel No: 01786 406448 Hi I’m Chris the owner of ComTech.  I am just a regular guy who loves fixing (and sometimes breaking!!) computers for a living.  I have a passion for Linux and … Continue reading →

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No init found. Try passing init=bootarg

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Chris

No init found. Try passing init=bootarg. This error has come up frequently over the last couple of days on my Debian LXDE system. After one too many times I decided to go looking for a solution.  After searching the net … Continue reading →

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How to make an ISO file from a CD / DVD using Linux

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Chris

Something a little bit different today.  I am going to show you how to make an ISO file from a CD / DVD using Linux.  This is very useful when you lose the CD you are after and need to … Continue reading →

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How to install .run files

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Chris

Today I will show you how to install .run files.  I had to do this yesterday when I downloaded the updated hp linux drivers for my Linux Mint 13 system.  This is how I installed it. Open up a terminal … Continue reading →

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How to check the status of your hard drive using SeaTools

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Chris

Today I will show you how to check the status of your hard drive.  There are tools built into Windows which will accomplish such tasks (eg chkdsk) however they are useless if you can’t boot into the system to use … Continue reading →

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BIOS sees memory upgrade but Linux Mint 12 does not

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Chris

Good afternoon.  Today I upgraded my main Linux Mint 12 system to 8Gb of RAM (I do a lot of software testing with virtual machines).  Came across one little problem though. The RAM upgrade was recognised in BIOS but not … Continue reading →

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Emails keep on getting stuck in Outlook 2007 outbox

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Chris

Came across this last week while working on a clients laptop with Microsoft Outlook 2007 installed.  The problem they had was now and again they would send an email but it would get as far as the outbox and then … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office 2010 Invalid product key

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Chris

You have purchased a new shiny copy of Microsoft Office 2010 and are in the process of installing it.  Up comes the product key screen so you enter your product key and get the error message: Your key is not … Continue reading →

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How to take screenshots on the Blackberry Playbook

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Chris

For all its bad press I have found the Blackberry Playbook to be a serious piece of kit.  It is very intuitive to use and comes with some great features.  One of these is the ability to take screenshots which I shall … Continue reading →

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